If you plan to deploy a Drupal site to OCI using MySQL Database Service, there is a very easy way to perform that deployment: using OCI’s Resource Manager ! As you know, security is something very important for Oracle in…
Magento is a very popular e-commerce platform using MySQL as backend. The latest version is compatible with MySQL 8.0, however it’s not that easy to deploy. Magento has multiple dependencies like Elasticsearch for example. Additionally, the Open Source version seems…
Recently (earlier today), I blogged about how to use PHPMyAdmin with a MDS instance. I also showed at the end of the video that it’s possible to open MySQL Router on the compute instance to connect from anywhere. However this…
I recently received several messages from developers not being comfortable with command line when they need to create schemas, tables, … They were asking me for an easy alternative when testing MDS. There is a very popular tool in the…
The amount of transactions committed is an important information, but how could you return an accurate value? This is a question I got from my colleague Ivan, he was challenging with global status values like COM_COMMIT or HANDLER_COMMIT, then checking…
Since 8.0.17, MySQL Router allows you to performs API call to retrieve statistics to monitor it.
Wooohooo MySQL 8.0.22 has been released today ! As usual, this release contains contributions from our great Community and let me thanks all the contributors on behalf of the MySQL Team. MySQL 8.0.22 includes contributions from Denis Yarkovoy, Gord Thomson,…
This post was first published on Oracle MySQL Blog. If you are running MySQL on premise, it’s maybe the right time to think about migrating your lovely MySQL database somewhere where the MySQL Team prepared a comfortable place for it…
During the MDS webinar on how to deploy WordPress on OCI using MDS (slides & video), I briefly explained how to deploy the full architecture on OCI using Resource Manager and Stacks. The Stack for that architecture is now available…
Today we will see how to use MySQL Database Service aka MDS with WordPress. To achieve this easy task, we will use the architecture we already deployed in this article. We have then two Compute Instances on OCI, 1 running…
In a recent article, I explained how to test MySQL Database Service (aka MDS) on OCI without having to setup a VPN. A VPN is the recommended way and of course using some man-in-the-middle exposing the MySQL Classic and X…
Please note that this is not recommended for any production purpose, don’t expose MySQL traffic to the Internet ! MySQL Database Service is now available, take a look at this nice introduction video: