Planet MySQL HA Blog

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

New Features in HeatWave GenAI

We recently announced the general availability of HeatWave GenAI – industry’s first in-database LLMs,  an automated, in-database vector store,  scale-out vector processing,  and the ability to have contextual conversations in natural language. To make it easier for customers to adopt generative AI, new features are added to focus the areas listed below: Enable new applications […]

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HeatWave Chat: How to Create Your Personal Chatbot

Have you ever found yourself searching through extensive documentation for specific MySQL or HeatWave features? The recently released HeatWave Chat can simplify that process. In this blog post, we will explore how the new chatbot, equipped with available reference manuals and documentation, can guide you through your MySQL and HeatWave tasks. This example demonstrates the […]

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HeatWave on AWS: New enhancements announced at Oracle CloudWorld 2024

We announced a slew of new features for HeatWave on both OCI and AWS platforms yesterday. Today we will discuss in more details on new features for HeatWave on AWS. 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. […]

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Introducing HeatWave Always Free

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. HeatWave Always Free enables […]

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HeatWave MySQL – New Capabilities for OLTP Workloads

HeatWave MySQL – new capabilities for OLTP workloads HeatWave MySQL is a robust and time-tested ACID compliant database which is ideal for transactional processing, mixed workloads, real-time analytics, and machine learning where the data is stored inside MySQL database. On the cusp of Oracle Cloud World 2024, we’d like to call attention to some recent […]

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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. Its scale-out architecture is designed to very effectively process and query data in various formats in object storage and MySQL Database. With solutions for different workloads, HeatWave enables customers to: Simplify secure […]

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Mask and De-identify Data in MySQL Enterprise Edition

MySQL Enterprise Edition has for years featured methods for masking and de-identifying data.  Let’s explore, with examples, how to use them!   Agenda of the article     The Data Masking and De-Identification extensions of MySQL Enterprise Edition   Data masking refers to masking portions or all of the data by replacing some of its […]

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Troubleshooting MySQL HeatWave Via The Error Log Table And Audit Log

You discover something has happened with your MySQL HeatWave instance, and you need to understand what events took place or you want to find the root cause of the problem.  For this, you can use the MySQL error log and the HeatWave audit log. The mysqld process has an MySQL error log which contains a record of mysqld startup […]

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Extending MySQL Shell with Plugins

MySQL Shell offers a wide variety of tools to manage our MySQL instances. With all those tools, though, we may want functionality that would be helpful and pertain to just your situation. Thankfully, the MySQL Shell team made it possible to extend MySQL Shell and add functionality. In this post, we will explore the use of […]

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How to determine whether a MySQL server is an LTS release

With the new release model supporting LTS (Long Term Support) releases, a given MySQL server will fall into one out of two categories:  This blog post will explain how to determine whether a given MySQL server is an LTS release or not. Defining release type The MySQL server source code repository contains a file called […]

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