Planet MySQL HA Blog

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

MySQL Shell in VS Code: A Modern Way to Work with Your Data

Modern development demands tools that minimize context switching and improve efficiency. The MySQL Shell extension for Visual Studio Code makes that possible by bringing powerful database interaction directly into the developer's workspace. With seamless support for connecting, querying, and scripting in SQL, Javascript, and TypeScript - all inside the familiar VS Code environment - it helps developers stay focused and productive.

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Percona Bug Report: June 2025

| Percona

At Percona, we operate on the premise that full transparency makes a product better. We strive to build the best open-source database products, but also to help you manage any issues that arise in any of the databases that we support. And, in true open-source form, report back on any issues or bugs you might encounter along the way.

We constantly update our bug reports and monitor other boards to ensure we have the latest information, but we wanted to make it a little easier for you to keep track of the most critical ones. This post is a central place to get…

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Track MySQL Table Activity: Know your Hot, Cold, and Static Tables

It's incredibly useful to know which tables in your MySQL databases are seeing active changes versus those tables that are more static. To do this, we need to examine DML (Data Manipulation Language) activity—specifically, updates, inserts, and deletes. MySQL offers various mechanisms to gather this information.

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Handle CSV files with HeatWave MySQL

| MySQL expert Diary

Efficiently loading CSV data into your MySQL environment is a crucial step for many analytical workloads, especially when dealing with the substantial datasets common in today's data-driven world. Both MySQL Shell's parallel import utility and HeatWave's Auto Parallel Load feature offer robust and effective solutions, each catering to slightly different needs and environments.

MySQL Shell's util.importTable provides a flexible and powerful way to import data from various sources, including local disks and OCI Object Storage, into your standard MySQL tables. It's a developer-friendly…

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Percona Earns Kubernetes Certified Services Provider Status for All Three Major Open Source Databases

| Another MySQL DBA

Galera Cluster for MySQL 8.0.42-26.23 and 8.4.5-26.23 released

| Galera Cluster
Codership is pleased to announce a new Generally Available (GA) release of the multi-master Galera Cluster for MySQL 8.0, consisting of MySQL-wsrep 8.0.42-26.23 (release notes, download), with Galera replication library 4.23 (release notes, download) implementing wsrep API version 26. It also includes Galera Cluster for MySQL 8.4, consisting of MySQL-wsrep 8.4.5-26.23 (release notes, download); it […]

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Geeks Go Peaks: Building Community Through Adventure and Challenge

| Percona

We believe this is something every strong team aspires to: taking interactions beyond the office, building a sense of community outside of work, and getting to know each other beyond job titles. That’s the kind of value people seek when they come to us.

People want to feel alive, to experience new sensations, to see the world from a different perspective - and share that journey with fellow enthusiasts.

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MySQL Meetups and Events with 30 years of MySQL Celebration! - UPDATED

meetups&events with 30Y ann.celebration

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High Availability and Disaster Recovery with the MySQL Operator for Kubernetes

The MySQL Operator for Kubernetes supports the lifecycle of a MySQL InnoDB Cluster inside a Kubernetes Cluster. This blog post will introduce you to the recently added MySQL InnoDBCluster ClusterSet support added to the Operator in the 9.3.0-2.2.4 version. The EE Helm charts will be used as the ClusterSet support is a part of the MySQL Operator for Kubernetes Enterprise Edition.

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MySQL Operator for Kubernetes Hands on Introduction with Helm

In this blog post the MySQL Operator for Kubernetes will be explored by using the operator Helm charts. Scenarios of simple Operator installation and creation of MySQL InnoDBClusters will be shown. Advanced topics, like usage of air-gapped container registry will also be presented.

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