Planet MySQL HA Blog

The audit log filter component in MySQL 8.4 provides administrators with a powerful mechanism for auditing database activity at a fine-grained level. While it offers significant flexibility—such as selectively logging events based on users, hosts, or event types—it can also be challenging to understand and configure correctly.

In this article, we will examine how the audit log filter component works, walk through its core concepts, and share practical tips for configuring and managing audit filters effectively. Our goal is to help you leverage this feature to improve observability,…

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Announcing the release of MySQL AI, an option to MySQL Enterprise Edition, that provides built-in predictive and generative AI capabilities and a vector store.

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Begin your hands-on MySQL adventure! This post guides newcomers through accessing and exploring their databases using MySQL Shell. Clear instructions, friendly guidance, and practical tips ensure a confident start for any data explorer eager to interact with tables and data in real time.

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Create a chatbot in LangChain using HeatWave GenAI

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Customers need to analyze MySQL audit logs for compliance, monitoring, and troubleshooting, but managing large volumes in MySQL can be costly. An archival system addresses this by extracting logs and storing them in a cost-effective repository. OCI Object Storage offers durability, scalability, and easy integration. Once archived, logs can be analyzed using OCI Logging Analytics or third-party tools. This blog shows how to build such an archival pipeline using OCI Data Integration (OCI-DI).

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Today’s developers strive for agility without sacrificing security or performance, especially when building data-driven apps and AI solutions. That’s why we’re excited to introduce the MySQL HeatWave REST Service (MRS), a fully managed, integrated solution that lets you create RESTful API endpoints instantly, directly from your MySQL HeatWave databases. There’s no need for backend coding, middleware, or third-party frameworks to provide streamlined and secure access to your data over HTTPS.

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With automatic refresh of Lakehouse tables, MySQL HeatWave brings near real-time analytics and simplified data pipelines to data from object storage also. In this blog post we take a look at this feature, including setting it up, and its benefits.

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How to use MySQL HeatWave’s vector store as a knowledge base when using OCI’s Generative AI Agent Service

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Let’s install and try out a new package for PostgreSQL — PG_TDE by Percona. This extension adds Transparent Data Encryption (TDE), a mechanism that allows data to be encrypted at the storage level without affecting application behavior.

TDE protects data in case of disk, dump, or backup compromise: everything stored at the file system level is encrypted. Meanwhile, the application continues to work with the data as usual — encryption and decryption happen transparently, without changes to SQL queries or logic.

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