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MySQL as we run it for customers: installation, replication, InnoDB Cluster, backups, performance tuning, upgrades and security.

Oracle Technology Roundtable for Digital Natives – Let’s have a look at AI, Cloud and HeatWave

Yesterday I participated to the Oracle Technology Roundtable for Digital Natives in Zurich. It was a good opportunity to learn more about AI, Cloud and HeatWave with the focus on very trendy features of this product: generative AI, machine learning, vector processing, analytics and transaction processing across data in Data Lake and MySQL databases. It was also great to share… 

The 1st Day at KubeCon & CloudNativeCon 2023 in Amsterdam

The KubeCon around the Kubernetes technology was one of the events I dreamed to attend since I’m focusing on the CloudNative solutions. I had the great opportunity to attend the KubeCon & CloundNativeCon in Amsterdam with my colleague Benoît Entzmann. There is now CNCF-hosted Co-located events adding more topics and interesting sessions. This is community-driven, vendor-neutral events hosted and managed… 

ODA : Do You Know The MOVE Table In MySQL DB Repository

By Mouhamadou Diaw During a consulting on a customer, we faced the following issue when trying to delete a dbhome Message:  DCS-10001:Internal error encountered: PRGO-2470 : Working copy “OraDB19000_home1” is involved in an incomplete move or upgrade operation The result of the job is shown below After researches on the net, we found following Oracle document ODA: Create-prepatchreport fails with… 

MySQL Server on Microsoft Azure 2nd part (Performance tests)

Introduction This second blog follows the first blog about deploying MySQL Server on Microsoft Azure. In the first blog, we saw how easy it is to deploy a MySQL server in minutes on the Azure cloud and we connected on it through the MySQL Shell client. This second blog is more focused on the performance of MySQL in the Azure… 

MySQL Server on Microsoft Azure 1st part (deployment)

Introduction Did you know that you can run MySQL on Microsoft Azure for free for 30 days with a $200 credit? In this first blog I’ll show how to create a MySQL Server and provide few information related to this service. In futures blogs I’ll present insights regarding MySQL performances and backup/recovery. Let’s start by registering ourselves The registration process… 

Installing MySQL InnoDB Cluster in OKE using a MySQL Operator

During previous months, I’ve had some time to satisfy my curiosity about databases in containers and I started to test a little bit MySQL in Kubernetes. This is how it all began… In January I had the chance to be trained on Kubernetes attending the Docker and Kubernetes essentials Workshop of dbi services. So I decided to prepare a session… 

What I really like about Percona PMM

Percona Monitoring and Management tool (PMM) is an Open Source product which was developed to help DBAs and developers to monitor and manage MySQL, PostgreSQL and MongoDB performances. In this blog post, we will see that we can do much more with it! I discovered this tool 2 years ago when I started a monitoring study for a customer, and… 

Foreign Keys in MySQL, SQL, NoSQL, NewSQL

By Franck Pachot . In the NoSQL times, it was common to hear thinks like “SQL is bad”, “joins are bad”, “foreign keys are bad”. Just because people didn’t know how to use them, or they were running on a database system with a poor implementation of it. MySQL was very popular because easy to install, but lacking on many… 

Convert private key generated via OCI Console to ppk

I am pretty new on the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure technology, so maybe I am talking about something you already know. But anyway I prefer to share this case: it can help if you encounter the same problem as me. Let’s take the risk to have too much information rather than nothing! 😉 The problem I was doing some tests on… 

Installing MySQL Database Service (MDS)

On a previous blog post, we saw how to create an account on the Oracle OCI using the Oracle Cloud Free Tier offer and then how to instal MySQL Server on the Compute instance. Some weeks later, the new MySQL Database Service (MDS) was out and I can show you now how to install and configure it. We are talking… 

Installing MySQL Server on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Compute

If you are thinking about to move your MySQL databases to the Cloud but you are still reticent, you can maybe use the “Oracle Cloud Free Tier” offer to test it. Oracle Cloud Free Tier offers you 2 Oracle Autonomous Databases and 2 Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Compute VMs as Always Free services and in addition a 30-day Free Trial with…