Planet MySQL HA Blog

The Planet MySQL HA Blog aggregates content from sources that cover topics related to high availability (HA) for MySQL databases.

HeatWave on AWS: New enhancements announced at Oracle CloudWorld 2024

HeatWave on AWS runs natively on AWS infrastructure. All components, including the service console, control plane, and data plane, are built and optimized for AWS. This native integration with AWS enables customers with applications already deployed in AWS to benefit from HeatWave without incurring the latency associated with accessing a database service running outside of AWS.

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Introducing HeatWave Always Free

We are excited to introduce HeatWave Always Free as part of OCI Always Free tier. All OCI accounts get access to a HeatWave Always Free instance in their OCI home region for an unlimited time. This allows organizations to experience the latest HeatWave features first-hand free-of charge.

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HeatWave MySQL – New Capabilities for OLTP Workloads

On the cusp of Oracle Cloud World 2024, we’d like to call attention to some recent enhancements that are now available for Heatwave MySQL. These enhancements deliver improvements in availability, disaster recovery, performance, manageability and operability, and developer productivity.

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HeatWaveJP meetup "HeatWave AutoML and HeatWave GenAI" - Recap.

Report from HWJP meetup, Aug 28, 2024

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Improving Performance for Tungsten Replication to MySQL

09/09/2024 | Continuent

The Question

Recently, a customer asked us:

Why would the Tungsten Replicator be slow to apply to a target MySQL server?

The Answer

When you run trepctl status and see:
appliedLatency : 7332.394
like this on a Replica, it is almost always due to the inability of the target database to keep up with the Applier’s stream of events.

This means that we often need to look first to the database layer for the solution.

Tune, Tune, Tune

Here are some of t


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Oracle Unveils HeatWave Innovations Across Generative AI, Lakehouse, MySQL, AutoML, and Multicloud

Oracle HeatWave provides automated, integrated, and secure generative AI and machine learning in one fully managed cloud service for transactions and lakehouse-scale analytics. New features are available across the HeatWave portfolio—on both OCI and AWS.

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Mask and De-identify Data in MySQL Enterprise Edition

MySQL Enterprise Edition has the ability to mask and de-identify data. Find out how to use it in this article!

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Creating and Connecting to A HeatWave MySQL Always Free Instance

The 'Always Free' tier of Oracle Cloud has a new offering - HeatWave MySQL. In this post, we will discuss how to spin up a new always-free HeatWave MySQL instance and connect to it via an alway-free compute instance.

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Join Database Administration for Galera Cluster online training course in September

09/05/2024 | Galera Cluster

Codership, the developers of Galera Cluster and Galera Manager, have new dates for the online DBA for Galera Cluster Training.

There are two sets of times for our EMEA and American attendees.  American happening on September 23rd  and 24th, starting starting 9 AM EST and EMEA happening on September 25th  and 25th, starting 9 AM EST.​​​​​

This is a hands on course that spans two days, and you will have about six contact hours per day in this instructor-led course. If you are a DBA

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Codership at DOAG Nürnberg 19-22 Nov, German articles about Galera Cluster from Ordix

09/05/2024 | Galera Cluster

Codership will be a sponsor at DOAG 2024 in Nuremberg, Germany. There will also be 2 Galera Cluster related talks to attend:

Building a Global, High-Availability Database with Galera Cluster: A Live Demo Colin Charles Codership Safe Harbor! Wie der Galera Cluster ihre MySQL Datenbanken „unsinkbar“ macht. Matthias Jung Ordix

There are also a few Galera Cluster blog posts in German from our partner Ordix that are useful:

Manchmal ist es ok, aus dem Takt zu geraten! – Backup eines Galera C

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