MySQL 9.0.0 has brought the VECTOR datatype to your favorite Open Source Database. There are already some functions available to deal with those vectors: This post will show how to deal with vectors and create our own functions to create…
MySQL HeatWave 9.0 was released under the banner of artificial intelligence. It includes a VECTOR datatype and can easily process and analyze vast amounts of proprietary unstructured documents in object storage, using HeatWave GenAI and Lakehouse. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure also…
As you can read in my previous post related to MySQL 9 and authentication, the old mysql_native_password plugin has been removed. In that post, I showed an example using PHP 7.2, the default version in OL8. If you are using…
With the latest MySQL Innovation Release, we decided that it was time to remove the remaining weak authentication plugin: mysql_native_password. We previously deprecated it and made it not default loaded in MySQL 8.4 LTS and, now, in 9.0 it’s gone!…
On July 1st, 3 new releases of MySQL came out. Indeed, we released the next 8.0 (8.0.38), the first update of the 8.4 LTS (8.4.1), and the very first 9.0 as Innovation Release. We now support 3 versions of the…
Some years ago, I wrote an article on connecting to MySQL 8.0 using the default authentication plugin (caching_sha2_password) with Perl. I also provided Perl-DBD-MySQL packages for EL7. Somebody recently left a comment as he was looking for a perl-DBD-MySQL driver…
In MySQL HeatWave, the Database as a Service (DBaaS) offered by Oracle, Machine Learning is incorporated to provide database administrators (DBAs) and developers with an optimal experience. Those tools are the Auto ML advisors like the autopilot indexing for example.…
MySQL HeatWave is the MySQL DBaaS provided by Oracle in OCI and some other clouds. Compared to the vanilla MySQL, one of the key features of the service is that it allows you to run analytics queries (aka OLAP) very…
Yesterday, MySQL 8.4, the very first LTS version of MySQL was released. A lot of deprecations have finally been removed, and several InnoDB variable default values have been modified to match current workloads and hardware specifications. The default value of…
You may have noticed that MySQL now supports creating functions (and store procedures) in Javascript using GraalVM. This new functionality is only available in MySQL Enterprise and MySQL HeatWave. As a developer, you can also get free access to MySQL…
In MySQL 8.0.12, we introduced a new algorithm for DDLs that won’t block the table when changing its definition. The first instant operation was adding a column at the end of a table, this was a contribution from Tencent Games.…
If you use MySQL Shell for Visual Studio Code, using a bastion host is the easiest method to connect to a MySQL HeatWave DB Instance on OCI. If you already have a connection setup using a bastion to host, you…
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