Planet MySQL HA Blog
The Planet MySQL HA Blog aggregates content from sources that cover topics related to high availability (HA) for MySQL databases.
Quick guide: Setting up HeatWave MySQL alarms and notifications in minutes
With just a few clicks, you can now set up critical alarms and notifications for HeatWave MySQL DB Systems using the OCI Database Management service. There’s no need to rely on IT teams or be a monitoring expert. You can easily implement Oracle-recommended alarms with predefined rules, thresholds, and conditions to effectively monitor your databases. […]
MySQL Upcoming Meetups Worldwide
As we already announced back in August, there are several MySQL meetups planned for this fall. Some of them already happened, please find quick report out of them on the bottom of the page. Also please register yourself for any of the below planned meetups. We are looking forward to seeing & talking to you! […]
Prevent and Detect Rapid Fire Password Attacks on MySQL
Introduction What is a rapid fire brute force attack? It is a trial-and-error approach used to obtain login passwords. A hacker tries a multitude of username and passwords typically using code that tests a wide range of combinations until they find a login user and password combination that works. At that point the hacker is “in” […]
Get started with HeatWave
Get Started with HeatWave MySQL There’s plenty of material to help you get started and be successful with HeatWave MySQL. We will keep this post updated with new information as it becomes available – so watch this space! Trying out HeatWave MySQL Always Free instance? The Always Free option provides a DB System […]
Announcing the MySQL Implementation Oracle Certified Associate Exam
We are excited to announce a new MySQL Implementation Certified Associate certification. This certification is designed specifically for administrators and data professionals who want to install, configure, and manage MySQL in the Enterprise, both on premises and in the cloud. MySQL Enterprise Edition MySQL powers the most demanding Web, E-commerce, SaaS and Online Transaction Processing […]
HeatWaveJP meetup “HeatWave AutoML and HeatWave GenAI” – Recap.
There is a community of HeatWave users in Japan – HeatWavejp. As we announced in our last blog post, their ninth meetup was held on August 28, with a focus on HeatWave GenAI and HeatWave AutoML. Since this last HeatWavejp meetup was a huge success, we would like to report on its progress and share […]
How to do HeatWave Audit Archive and dump to Object Storage
Auditing is one of the key concerns with Security & Compliance for many organizations. This article is written to share a tutorial how to do audit log archiving by reading the audit log. The tutorial is for demo purpose only. The audit archiving process is to read the audit log using audit_log_read function. The […]
Creating and Connecting to A HeatWave MySQL Always Free Instance
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) has a very robust always-free tier. Oracle recently announced that HeatWave MySQL will now be part of that offering. As part of the always-free tier, we can set up one instance and a single-node HeatWave Cluster. In this post, we will show how to spin up that instance and connect to it using a […]
HeatWave – new capabilities for OLAP workloads
HeatWave has added new capabilities on both OCI and AWS platforms. Here is the list of features introduced in 9.0 and 9.0.1-u1 for HeatWave and HeatWave Lakehouse. HeatWave Vector data type and similarity search support To support HeatWave GenAI with unstructured data, HeatWave has introduced a new VECTOR data type and a set of distance […]
HeatWave GenAI for e-Commerce Applications: Part 2
With the new capabilities added in HeatWave GenAI such as HeatWave GenAI native JavaScript support and multi-lingual support, we extend the E-Commerce application introduced in Part 1 to further improve user purchasing experience: Automatically analyze the sentiment of user submitted reviews. Automatically summarize and translate two separate summaries for reviews with positive and negative sentiments. […]