Planet for the MySQL Community

COSCUP 2026: Planning your upgrade to MySQL 9.7 ^{(from Ronald Bradford Blog)}

I recently had the pleasure of presenting Planning your upgrade to MySQL 9.7 at COSCUP 2026 in Taipei, Taiwan. COSCUP (Conference for Open Source Coders, Users and Promoters) is one of the largest open source conferences in Asia, and the community there is always engaged and technically sharp. [...]

Published Wednesday, 12. August 2026 00:00 • 10 hours ago

Migrate RDS and Aurora logs to CloudWatch Infrequent Access ^{(from AWS Database Blog)}

Organizations running Amazon RDS and Amazon Aurora often pay full CloudWatch Logs ingestion rates for database logs they rarely access. This post shows how to build an automated, tag-driven solution that migrates RDS and Aurora CloudWatch log groups from the Standard to the Infrequent Access log class and cuts log ingestion costs by about 50%. [...]

Published Tuesday, 11. August 2026 16:19 • 18 hours ago

From Replication to Resilience: Miguel Araújo on Building the Operational Layer of MySQL High Availability ^{(from ODBMS.org)}

Q1. As the tech lead for AdminAPI, you’ve spent years helping shape how MySQL users deploy and manage InnoDB Cluster, ReplicaSet, and ClusterSet environments. From your experience, what are some of the most important... [...]

Published Tuesday, 11. August 2026 13:28 • 21 hours ago

MySQL Replication: How to Set It Up and Monitor It Effectively ^{(from Webyog Blog)}

pMySQL replication is one of the most relied-upon features in production MySQL environments. It powers read scaling, disaster recovery, analytics offloading, and geographic redundancy. It is also one of the […]/p pThe post MySQL Replication: How to Set It Up and Monitor It Effectively appeared first on Webyog./p [...]

Published Tuesday, 11. August 2026 12:16 • 22 hours ago

Percona for MongoDB: RHEL 10, Its Derivatives, and Debian 13 – On Both x86_64 and ARM ^{(from Percona Database Blog)}

pWe’re happy to announce that Percona Server for MongoDB (PSMDB) 8.0.28-12 extends platform support to RHEL 10 and its derivatives (Oracle Linux 10, Rocky Linux 10, AlmaLinux 10, and other RHEL-compatible distributions) for both x86_64 and ARM (aarch64) architectures. This release also adds support for Debian 13 “Trixie” on x86_64 and ARM64. We’ll continue to … Continu [...]

Published Tuesday, 11. August 2026 12:15 • 22 hours ago

Amazon RDS for MariaDB now supports MariaDB 12.3 ^{(from AWS What's New)}

pStarting today, Amazon RDS for MariaDB supports MariaDB major version 12.3, the latest Long-Term Support release from the MariaDB community. This release supports MariaDB 12.3.2 minor version. br br MariaDB 12.3 includes Oracle TO_DATE() function compatibility, reducing the code changes needed when migrating applications from Oracle to MariaDB. It adds an IS JSON predicate, so you can valida [...]

Published Tuesday, 11. August 2026 08:54 • a day ago

How to set up automated database failover testing ^{(from Mydbops Blog)}

Covers 2026 failover testing for MySQL, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB-RTO targets, health checks, trigger scripts, and troubleshooting. [...]

Published Tuesday, 11. August 2026 08:05 • a day ago

Making the PostgreSQL Documentation Even Better ^{(from Shinguz's Blog)}

pWhile working on our project “PostgreSQL for Dolphins and Sea Lions,” I pored over the PostgreSQL documentation on replication./p pSince I’m not quite up to speed on this topic yet, I like to look up certain terms (parameters, functions, etc.) every now and then to see exactly what they mean or how they work (RTFM!). That’s exactly why links were originally invented—the very thing that first made [...]

Published Tuesday, 11. August 2026 06:40 • a day ago

The dangers of Postgres subtransactions ^{(from PlanetScale Blog)}

Subtransactions can slow down your entire PostgreSQL server and break your high availability strategy by keeping new read replicas from accepting connections. [...]

Published Tuesday, 11. August 2026 00:00 • a day ago

MariaDB Foundation is pleased to welcome Auree as a Silver Sponsor. ^{(from MariaDB Foundation Blog)}

pAuree is building a cloud-independent platform for deploying and operating highly available open source databases, including MariaDB, inside customers’ own cloud accounts. Its Bring Your Own Cloud model allows organisations to choose their cloud provider, region, infrastructure size, and security environment while Auree automates database provisioning, monitoring, backups, clustering, and fa [...]

Published Monday, 10. August 2026 15:34 • 2 days ago

Why Agentic AI Architecture Needs a Database, Not Just a Vector Store ^{(from PingCAP Blog)}

pAgentic AI architecture is the system design that lets an AI agent perceive context, reason over it, call tools, maintain memory, and take actions across multiple steps. It spans the model, the orchestration layer, and the data infrastructure that makes an agent’s work durable rather than disposable. Most teams get the model and framework right […]/p pThe post Why Agentic AI Architecture Nee [...]

Published Monday, 10. August 2026 13:00 • 2 days ago

Teaching MariaDB About Your Domain ^{(from lefred's blog)}

When we talk about extending a database server, we usually think about features that could benefit a very large number of users. A new authentication mechanism, a storage engine, an audit plugin, a new generic data type such as UUID or INET, additional JSON functions… these are relatively easy to justify because their potential audience […] [...]

Published Monday, 10. August 2026 11:31 • 2 days ago

MySQL 9.7 LTS: Troubleshooting Replication Lag Using New Metrics ^{(from Mydbops Blog)}

Learn how to troubleshoot MySQL replication lag in MySQL 9.7 LTS using the new Replication Applier Metrics Component for deeper observability. [...]

Published Monday, 10. August 2026 09:13 • 2 days ago

MariaDB 12.3 LTS: Advances and Building Fault-Tolerant MariaDB Infrastructure at Internet Scale ^{(from MinervaDB Blog)}

MariaDB 12.3 is the current long-term support release of MariaDB Community Server. It reached Stable/GA on 28 May 2026 and is maintained until June 2029, making it the first LTS line since MariaDB 11.8. For [...] [...]

Published Monday, 10. August 2026 09:10 • 2 days ago

MySQL and MariaDB High Availability vs. Disaster Recovery: What’s the Difference (and Why It Matters) ^{(from Continuent Blog)}

High availability keeps MySQL and MariaDB applications running through routine local failures, while disaster recovery restores service after a site or regional outage. This article explains how RTO, RPO, distance, synchronous replication and asynchronous replication shape each strategy, and how Continuent Tungsten Cluster combines local HA with multi-site DR. [...]

Published Saturday, 08. August 2026 09:51 • 4 days ago

MariaDB Node.js Connector 3.5.4 and 3.4.7 now available ^{(from MariaDB Corporation Blog)}

MariaDB is pleased to announce the immediate availability of the MariaDB Connector/Node.js 3.5.4, 3.4.7, 3.3.4, and 3.2.5 GA releases. Download […] [...]

Published Friday, 07. August 2026 17:48 • 5 days ago

The open way of Percona Search for MongoDB ^{(from Percona Database Blog)}

pPercona Search for MongoDB is Percona’s downstream distribution of mongot, the search engine that provides MongoDB’s full-text and vector search capabilities. With this addition, you can power your applications with AI and advanced search techniques – anywhere, and without vendor lock-in. It’s the same search engine that powers MongoDB Atlas Search. Percona Search for MongoDB &# [...]

Published Friday, 07. August 2026 14:55 • 5 days ago

The Complete Agent State Stack: Memory, Files, and Serverless Database Persistence for AI Apps ^{(from PingCAP Blog)}

pA serverless database is a fully-managed database that automatically scales compute and storage with demand, requires no server provisioning or capacity planning, and bills only for actual usage, including scaling to zero when idle. The provider handles infrastructure; you handle data. That definition covers the category. It doesn’t cover the problem most teams actually face […]/p pThe [...]

Published Friday, 07. August 2026 13:00 • 5 days ago

The DuckDB MySQL engine at 500 GB ^{(from Percona Database Blog)}

pWe ran DuckDB MySQL storage engine at scale factor 500. It is around 500 GB of raw TPC-H, three billion lineitem rows on an 80-core server with 187 GB of RAM. Three engines on the same box: InnoDB, our MySQL+DuckDB engine, and plain DuckDB as the reference. Here is what came out. InnoDB finished 18 … Continued/p pThe post The DuckDB MySQL engine at 500 GB appeared first on Percona./p [...]

Published Friday, 07. August 2026 12:09 • 5 days ago

Retail Data Analytics: Ultimate 2026 Modern Retail Stack ^{(from MinervaDB Blog)}

Retail data analytics is the difference between a merchandiser who reprices a slow-moving SKU on Tuesday morning and one who discovers the markdown opportunity in a month-end deck. Modern retail runs on a data platform, [...] [...]

Published Friday, 07. August 2026 10:45 • 5 days ago

MySQL Index Optimization: How to Speed Up Your Database Queries ^{(from Webyog Blog)}

pIf there is one change that can turn a 10-second MySQL query into a millisecond one, it is adding the right index. And if there is one change that can […]/p pThe post MySQL Index Optimization: How to Speed Up Your Database Queries appeared first on Webyog./p [...]

Published Friday, 07. August 2026 08:49 • 5 days ago

Concurrency vs. Throughput: why more parallelism can make databases slower ^{(from PlanetScale Blog)}

Increasing throughput sometimes requires reducing parallelism. A look into why this is the case for Vitess + MySQL databases [...]

Published Friday, 07. August 2026 00:00 • 5 days ago

Why Attend TiDB SCaiLE 2026: Same Complexity, Different Clock Speeds ^{(from PingCAP Blog)}

pA single user action in an agentic application no longer maps to a single database query. It spawns agent instances that branch context in milliseconds, hold memory across sessions, and provision their own tenants without waiting for a human. At Manus, agents create more than 90% of new database clusters. The stacks underneath them were […]/p pThe post Why Attend TiDB SCaiLE 2026: Same Compl [...]

Published Thursday, 06. August 2026 20:04 • 6 days ago

Doltgres 1.0 ^{(from DoltHub Blog)}

Doltgres, the Postgres-flavored version of Dolt, is now 1.0 and ready for production. [...]

Published Thursday, 06. August 2026 00:00 • 6 days ago

Open Source Data Layers Will Win the AI Future ^{(from PingCAP Blog)}

pFor most of the cloud era, infrastructure decisions followed a familiar pattern: choose the fastest path to production, accept some proprietary dependencies, and optimize later. AI breaks that pattern. Coding agents now reshape applications in hours, while models, frameworks, and workload shapes change underneath them. That leaves the data layer as the one place a […]/p pThe post Open Source [...]

Published Wednesday, 05. August 2026 19:20 • 7 days ago

Understanding MySQL Replication "fatal error 1236": "Replica has more GTIDs than the source has, using the source's SERVER_UUID" ^{(from J-F Gagné's MySQL Blog)}

This MySQL replication error — fatal error 1236 / Replica has more GTIDs than the source has, using the source's SERVER_UUID — shows the importance of thinking before acting. I am glad a non-DBA Colleague asked me about it, because if he had restarted replication, it would have caused a much bigger mess. Often, we are tempted — or pushed — to just restart things [...]

Published Monday, 03. August 2026 22:12 • 8 days ago | Updated Wednesday, 05. August 2026 13:50 • 7 days ago

How to Prepare a Database for a PCI-DSS Audit (2026) ^{(from Mydbops Blog)}

Prepare your MySQL, PostgreSQL, or MongoDB database for a PCI-DSS audit. Learn how to scope your CDE, encrypt data, enforce RBAC, and configure audit logging. [...]

Published Wednesday, 05. August 2026 11:58 • 7 days ago

MySQL vs MariaDB in 2026: What Every DBA Needs to Know ^{(from Webyog Blog)}

pMySQL and MariaDB share a common origin — MariaDB was forked from MySQL in 2009 by its original creator following Oracle’s acquisition. For several years, they stayed close enough that […]/p pThe post MySQL vs MariaDB in 2026: What Every DBA Needs to Know appeared first on Webyog./p [...]

Published Wednesday, 05. August 2026 10:52 • 7 days ago

Building on Open Ground: Ilia Kors on Why Aqtra Chose MariaDB as the Native Foundation of Its Enterprise Platform ^{(from ODBMS.org)}

Q1. Aqtra is building a Development Infrastructure Layer that enables organisations, cloud providers, and service partners to create and operate business applications, ERP solutions, portals, and automation services on a common foundation. That is a... [...]

Published Wednesday, 05. August 2026 08:51 • 7 days ago

ClusterControl 2.5.0 brings ClickHouse support to on-prem, cloud and hybrid environments ^{(from Severalnines Blog)}

pClusterControl 2.5.0 is here, and it marks a milestone for the platform: ClickHouse joins the family of supported database engines — and with it, a capability no analytics vendor’s cloud can offer you. Wherever you run ClusterControl — on-premises, in any cloud, or hybrid — you can now deploy ClickHouse either as a standalone OLAP […]/p pThe post ClusterControl 2.5.0 brings ClickHouse [...]

Published Wednesday, 05. August 2026 08:38 • 7 days ago

MySQL 8.0.17 GTID Crash Safety Improvement ^{(from J-F Gagné's MySQL Blog)}

I have known for some times that there is an interesting improvement in MySQL 8.0.17 regarding GTID Crash Safety, but I have not had the time nor the need to look into it before. When writing my last post (Understanding MySQL Replication "fatal error 1236": [...]), I saw something interesting related to this, and it is now time to cover this on my blog. From my point of view, this change is [...]

Published Tuesday, 04. August 2026 22:22 • 7 days ago | Updated Tuesday, 04. August 2026 22:30 • 7 days ago

Everyone Records the MySQL Audit Log. Nobody Reads It. ^{(from dbtrail Blog)}

pEveryone records audit logs. Almost nobody reads them, because reading them means grep on the database server, a cursor with no WHERE clause, or a log pipeline that costs thousands a year. There is a cheaper shape: keep the answer, not the log. And you do not need an audit plugin to get it./p pThe post Everyone Records the MySQL Audit Log. Nobody Reads It. appeared first on dbtrail./p [...]

Published Tuesday, 04. August 2026 20:29 • 8 days ago

What Is Data Sovereignty and How Does MariaDB Protect Sovereignty in Cloud Databases? ^{(from MariaDB Corporation Blog)}

Every organization now operates in a world where data doesn’t just need to be secure – it needs to be […] [...]

Published Tuesday, 04. August 2026 18:33 • 8 days ago

Hear Ye, Hear Ye: A Guide to MariaDB’s Governance Model ^{(from MariaDB Foundation Blog)}

pBe it known: MariaDB Server now has a clearer, publicly documented governance framework covering technical roles, subsystem ownership, decision-making, response expectations and continuity.br Open source begins with access to the code. … /p pContinue reading \"Hear Ye, Hear Ye: A Guide to MariaDB’s Governance Model\"/p pHear Ye, Hear Ye: A Guide to MariaDB’s Governance Model appeared first o [...]

Published Tuesday, 04. August 2026 18:07 • 8 days ago

How to Avoid Hidden Duplicate Key Errors in MySQL utf8mb4 Migrations ^{(from Mydbops Blog)}

Learn how character set and collation changes (latin1/utf8mb3 to utf8mb4_0900_ai_ci) introduce duplicate key errors in MySQL and how to validate source data beforehand. [...]

Published Tuesday, 04. August 2026 17:36 • 8 days ago

Monthly Product Pulse: August 2026—Oracle Technical Resources ^{(from Oracle ACE Program)}

Welcome to the August edition of Monthly Product Pulse, your monthly round-up of the latest technical resources from Oracle product teams. This month’s highlights include AI development tutorials, Oracle APEX community opportunities, new Oracle Spatial capabilities, Oracle MicroTx updates, and the latest MySQL technical content. Whether you’re building AI-powered applications, modernizi [...]

Published Tuesday, 04. August 2026 14:27 • 8 days ago

Migrating Real-Time Data into TiDB with Debezium CDC ^{(from PingCAP Blog)}

pMoving data into a new database is rarely a one-shot copy. Migrating off a legacy system, adopting a distributed SQL database, carrying out a heterogeneous database migration, or standing up an analytical replica all share the same challenge. You have to move a large, already-populated dataset and keep it continuously in sync until you are […]/p pThe post Migrating Real-Time Data into TiDB w [...]

Published Tuesday, 04. August 2026 13:00 • 8 days ago

Recovery Optimization for Large MySQL Transactions ^{(from Libing Song's Blog)}

This article is also available in Chinese: 中文版. Browse all English articles. Have you ever run into a mysqld process that has been starting for a long time and still won’t come up? When that happens, you can use perf top to check what the MySQL process is mainly doing. If what you see looks like the figure below —... [...]

Published Tuesday, 04. August 2026 02:00 • 8 days ago | Updated Tuesday, 04. August 2026 12:20 • 8 days ago

Where can you find MySQL from August through October 2026? ^{(from ODBMS.org)}

August 3, 2026 7 minute read Lenka Kasparova MySQL Community Manager The MySQL Community team will continue to be active across conferences, user group meetups, open source events, and regional community activities throughout August, September, and October 2026. While... [...]

Published Tuesday, 04. August 2026 09:51 • 8 days ago

MySQL Backup Best Practices: A Complete Guide for DBAs in 2026 ^{(from Webyog Blog)}

pMost teams believe they have a solid backup strategy. In practice, many have a backup process they set up once, have not tested recently, and would discover is broken only […]/p pThe post MySQL Backup Best Practices: A Complete Guide for DBAs in 2026 appeared first on Webyog./p [...]

Published Tuesday, 04. August 2026 08:49 • 8 days ago

Online Migration from Binlog to GTID Replication in MySQL 8.x ^{(from Mydbops Blog)}

Learn how to convert traditional file/position MySQL replication to GTID-based replication online in MySQL 8.x without rebuilding replicas or taking application downtime. [...]

Published Tuesday, 04. August 2026 08:15 • 8 days ago

Using CloudWatch Database Insights to troubleshoot query performance from calling services ^{(from AWS Database Blog)}

Learn how to use the calling services feature in Amazon CloudWatch Database Insights to identify which applications are calling your databases and view their performance metrics, so you can pinpoint root causes and contact the right team in minutes rather than hours. [...]

Published Monday, 03. August 2026 18:00 • 9 days ago

MySQL Development as it Happens – Innovating Together ^{(from The Oracle MySQL Blog)}

Henrik IngoMySQL Community Architect In May we hosted the first MySQL Contributor Summit 2026. We arrange such Summits every quarter, and it’s a forum where contributors come together and make proposals, and then discuss them, on what they wish to work on, or see someone else work on, in future MySQL versions. All of the presentations are now […] [...]

Published Monday, 03. August 2026 14:41 • 9 days ago

Where can you find MySQL from August through October 2026? ^{(from The Oracle MySQL Blog)}

The MySQL Community team will continue to be active across conferences, user group meetups, open source events, and regional community activities throughout August, September, and October 2026. While some of our August events were featured in our previous event update, we’ve included them here again with the latest information. Whether you’re interested [...]

Published Monday, 03. August 2026 14:19 • 9 days ago

Artificially Delayed Replication with PostgreSQL ^{(from Shinguz's Blog)}

pWhile working on our project titled “PostgreSQL for Dolphins and Sea Lions,” I pored over the PostgreSQL documentation on replication. What struck me was that PostgreSQL does NOT support artificially delayed replication—at least according to this documentation./p pAfter I’d already been thinking about how one might possibly cobble together artificially delayed replication using PostgreSQL’s built- [...]

Published Monday, 03. August 2026 07:53 • 9 days ago

No Index GroupBy Optimization ^{(from DoltHub Blog)}

Sneak peek at one of the optimizations applied to Dolt and Doltgres [...]

Published Monday, 03. August 2026 00:00 • 9 days ago

CloudJump III Optimizing Cloud Databases for Tiered Storage(SIGMOD 2026) ^{(from Chen Zongzhi's GitHub blog)}

在云原生数据库的演进中, 计存分离让计算层和存储层可以独立扩展, 共享存储让多个计算节点访问同一份数据成为可能. [...]

Published Monday, 03. August 2026 00:00 • 9 days ago

Wirekite becomes Silver Sponsor of MariaDB Foundation ^{(from MariaDB Foundation Blog)}

pWe are pleased to welcome Wirekite as a new Silver Sponsor of MariaDB Foundation.br Wirekite is an enterprise data movement platform focused on high-performance extract, load, migration, and replication workflows. … /p pContinue reading \"Wirekite becomes Silver Sponsor of MariaDB Foundation\"/p pWirekite becomes Silver Sponsor of MariaDB Foundation appeared first on MariaDB.org/p [...]

Published Sunday, 02. August 2026 20:09 • 10 days ago

What’s New At Releem - June 2026 ^{(from Releem Blog)}

Over the past few months, we’ve been expanding Releem into more database environments while making recommendations easier to understand and act on. June continues that work with updates designed to shorten the path from identifying an issue to resolving it safely. [...]

Published Saturday, 01. August 2026 02:54 • 11 days ago

Upgrading Oracle Linux when running Oracle databases ^{(from dbi Blog)}

pI recently had to upgrade an Oracle Linux production server running 19.30 Oracle databases for one of our customer. In this post, I will share with you the full set of steps that need to be carried out to run an in-place Oracle Linux upgrade when running Oracle databases. The method will be the same […]/p pL’article Upgrading Oracle Linux when running Oracle databases est apparu en premier s [...]

Published Friday, 31. July 2026 16:33 • 12 days ago

MySQL July 2026 GA Releases Now Available ^{(from The Oracle MySQL Blog)}

The July 2026 MySQL releases are now available, including: MySQL 26.7.0 is the first generally available Innovation release following MySQL 9.7 LTS and the first MySQL release to use the new calendar-versioning model. MySQL 9.7.2 and MySQL 8.4.11 continue the quarterly maintenance cadence for the current MySQL Long-Term Support release lines. A new calendar-versioning model […] [...]

Published Friday, 31. July 2026 14:51 • 12 days ago

Stored Procedures memory consumption in Percona Server for MySQL ^{(from Percona Database Blog)}

p1. What it is about This investigation began as a performance comparison for different memory allocators. However, during benchmarking, I discovered unexpected effects deserving a more detailed explanation. I hope you find these findings both interesting and useful. Imagine you need to set up a MySQL database server. Every detail is planned: the operating system, … Continued/p pThe post Stor [...]

Published Friday, 31. July 2026 11:50 • 12 days ago

How to Use the MySQL Slow Query Log to Find and Fix Performance Bottlenecks ^{(from Webyog Blog)}

pEvery MySQL performance problem leaves a record. The slow query log is where that record lives — a straightforward, built-in tool that captures every query taking longer than a threshold […]/p pThe post How to Use the MySQL Slow Query Log to Find and Fix Performance Bottlenecks appeared first on Webyog./p [...]

Published Friday, 31. July 2026 10:33 • 12 days ago

Summary of MySQL Public Discussion #5: The Contributor Experience ^{(from The Oracle MySQL Blog)}

The fifth MySQL Public Discussion as part of our Community Engagement plan. The plan includes accelerating innovation in MySQL Community Edition, increasing community contributions and expanding the MySQL ecosystem overall. This session was focused on the contributor experience and the ongoing work to make contributing to MySQL more transparent and accessible. The session covered MySQL […] [...]

Published Friday, 31. July 2026 06:00 • 12 days ago

Massively parallel Postgres backups ^{(from PlanetScale Blog)}

PlanetScale backs up petabyte-scale sharded Postgres databases in hours using parallel infrastructure, object storage, and WAL replay. [...]

Published Friday, 31. July 2026 00:00 • 12 days ago

Announcing ProxySQL 3.0.10, 3.1.10, and 4.0.10 ^{(from ProxySQL Blog)}

ProxySQL 3.0.10, 3.1.10, and 4.0.10 are out, led by a security fix in the compressed-packet path, AWS RDS Blue/Green monitoring, per-hostgroup query timeouts, and complete configuration round-tripping. [...]

Published Friday, 31. July 2026 00:00 • 12 days ago

DataEngBytes Sydney Overview ^{(from Ronald Bradford Blog)}

I have just returned from my first DataEngBytes conference in Sydney. Here is a quick summary on my thoughts for the event. I plan to go into more detail on great points from presentations in later posts. [...]

Published Friday, 31. July 2026 00:00 • 12 days ago

Percona Server for MongoDB 8.3 Technical Preview Is Now Available ^{(from Percona Database Blog)}

pPercona Server for MongoDB 8.3 is available today as a Technical Preview. It is not for production. It is for your lab, your staging cluster, and your benchmark harness – and for sharing with us what works and what does not. Especially if this version is your segue to leverage upcoming full-text and vector search … Continued/p pThe post Percona Server for MongoDB 8.3 Technical Preview [...]

Published Thursday, 30. July 2026 17:36 • 13 days ago

Vector Search Meets Distributed SQL: Why Agentic AI Does Not Need Another Database ^{(from PingCAP Blog)}

pKey Takeaways Add a vector database to the existing stack. Sync it. Maintain it. Debug it when it drifts. Teams building agentic applications have largely accepted that sequence as the price of admission for working with embeddings, and the fourth step is the one worth pausing on. Drift is not an incidental bug waiting to […]/p pThe post Vector Search Meets Distributed SQL: Why Agentic AI Do [...]

Published Thursday, 30. July 2026 16:31 • 13 days ago

MySQL Best Practice : not using date / time types, nor ENUM ^{(from J-F Gagné's MySQL Blog)}

Today, I was reminded of a MySQL Best Practice, probably generalizable to all databases : using simple types, not complex types. Such complex types to avoid include the date and time data types (including TIMESTAMP) and ENUM. Let's see why. A little history about this, Baron Schwartz, a MySQL Legend who is not involved in the community anymore, compared using the TIMESTAMP type to [...]

Published Thursday, 30. July 2026 15:46 • 13 days ago | Updated Thursday, 30. July 2026 16:22 • 13 days ago

MariaDB again faces questions over Galera's open source future ^{(from The Register)}

Support for the MySQL build ends in September as the company develops separate premium replication technology [...]

Published Thursday, 30. July 2026 11:01 • 13 days ago

MariaDB Java Connector 3.5.10, 3.4.4, 3.3.6, and 2.7.15 now available ^{(from MariaDB Corporation Blog)}

MariaDB is pleased to announce the immediate availability of the MariaDB Connector/J 3.5.10, 3.4.4, 3.3.6, and 2.7.15 releases. Release Notes […] [...]

Published Wednesday, 29. July 2026 21:34 • 14 days ago

AI Chat With DBeaver Community Edition ^{(from Dave's MySQL Stuff)}

p /pAI Chat With DBeaver Community EditionJuly 29, 2026p DBeaver recently introduced interactive chat capabilities into the free, open-source Community Edition. What does that mean? /ppIt means some of your database tasks can be accomplished significantly faster! /ppFirst, you can ask for information without coding SQL. I love Structured Query Language, but it is much faster to [...]

Published Wednesday, 29. July 2026 16:21 • 14 days ago

When Tungsten Replication "Stalls" but Nothing Has Failed: A MySQL Metadata-Query Story ^{(from Continuent Blog)}

A real-world troubleshooting guide showing how MySQL metadata query behavior can cause Tungsten Replicator to appear stalled despite healthy cluster status, with root-cause analysis and preventive configuration recommendations. [...]

Published Wednesday, 29. July 2026 14:45 • 14 days ago

MySQL Performance Tuning: 8 Proven Techniques for Faster Queries ^{(from Webyog Blog)}

pSlow MySQL queries are one of the most common database problems — and one of the most solvable. Most performance issues don’t require new hardware or a rewrite. They require […]/p pThe post MySQL Performance Tuning: 8 Proven Techniques for Faster Queries appeared first on Webyog./p [...]

Published Wednesday, 29. July 2026 12:21 • 14 days ago

After rewriting SQLite in Rust, Turso turns its sights on Postgres ^{(from The Register)}

Cloud database upstart wants one virtual machine core to power multiple SQL frontends [...]

Published Wednesday, 29. July 2026 11:28 • 14 days ago

From a Production Problem to MariaDB: Headout’s Open-Source Contribution Journey ^{(from MariaDB Foundation Blog)}

pA production bottleneck at Headout led to a new MariaDB Server improvement. This is the story of how engineers, maintainers and AI-assisted development turned a real-world problem into an upstream open-source contribution./p pFrom a Production Problem to MariaDB: Headout’s Open-Source Contribution Journey appeared first on MariaDB.org/p [...]

Published Wednesday, 29. July 2026 07:01 • 14 days ago

MariaDB 12.3: Faster Vector Search with Matryoshka Optimization ^{(from MariaDB Corporation Blog)}

Achieving Fast Vector Search in MariaDB MariaDB Server 12.3 makes vector search faster where it matters most: the high-recall levels […] [...]

Published Tuesday, 28. July 2026 18:29 • 15 days ago

Post-Quantum Cryptography support in MySQL ^{(from The Oracle MySQL Blog)}

Overview OpenSSL 3.5 integrates a number of algorithms resistant to attack by future quantum computers, commonly referred as Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC). These include: Possibility of storing the vast amounts of TLS encrypted traffic now and decrypting it later once the quantum computers become capable enough is considered a real problem, so the governments and standards […] [...]

Published Tuesday, 28. July 2026 17:00 • 15 days ago

Backups Using the MySQL Clone Operation ^{(from Shinguz's Blog)}

pWe recently tested the PostgreSQL backup tool codepg_basebackup/code and were very impressed with its remote backup functionality, which allows for both physical local and physical remote backups./p pThis led us to wonder whether a physical remote backup is also possible using the “new” MySQL Server Clone feature, which was introduced in MySQL 8.0.17 (July 2019)./p pThe MySQL Clone operation can b [...]

Published Tuesday, 28. July 2026 09:40 • 15 days ago

TiDB Log Compaction: Faster Point-in-Time Recovery for Large Clusters ^{(from PingCAP Blog)}

pFor a large distributed SQL cluster, backup and restore define whether the business can recover from an accident inside a realistic service objective. As TiDB adoption grows across larger, more write-intensive workloads, many production clusters now hold tens or hundreds of terabytes of data. At that scale, point-in-time recovery (PITR) has to satisfy two goals that pull […]/p pThe [...]

Published Tuesday, 28. July 2026 06:25 • 15 days ago

MySQL 8.0 to 8.4 upgrade on RDS: how to prove your data survived ^{(from dbtrail Blog)}

pStandard support for MySQL 8.0 on RDS ends on July 31. The in-place upgrade to 8.4 takes minutes and there is no way back. Here is how I checked, on a real RDS instance with every MySQL data type I could think of, that it did not change a single row./p pThe post MySQL 8.0 to 8.4 upgrade on RDS: how to prove your data survived appeared first on dbtrail./p [...]

Published Tuesday, 28. July 2026 00:44 • 15 days ago

Migrate self-managed PostgreSQL to Amazon RDS using the RDS console ^{(from AWS Database Blog)}

Migrate a self-managed PostgreSQL database on Amazon EC2 to Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL or Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition using the auto-migration capability in the Amazon RDS console, powered by AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) homogeneous data migrations. [...]

Published Monday, 27. July 2026 21:32 • 16 days ago

Adobe Commerce Chooses MariaDB as Its Default Database Platform ^{(from MariaDB Foundation Blog)}

pAdobe Commerce is making MariaDB its default and recommended databasebr platform. /p pAdobe Commerce Chooses MariaDB as Its Default Database Platform appeared first on MariaDB.org/p [...]

Published Monday, 27. July 2026 12:49 • 16 days ago

ScalaHosting Becomes a Gold Sponsor of MariaDB Foundation ^{(from MariaDB Foundation Blog)}

pGlobal cloud hosting provider supports the continued development and adoption of open-source MariaDBbr MariaDB Foundation is pleased to welcome ScalaHosting as a Gold Sponsor, strengthening the relationship between the MariaDB community and one of the hosting industry’s established cloud infrastructure providers. … /p pContinue reading \"ScalaHosting Becomes a Gold Sponsor of MariaDB F [...]

Published Monday, 27. July 2026 09:11 • 16 days ago

TLS Certificate Pinning and Best Practices in Azure Database for MySQL ^{(from Azure for MySQL Blog)}

pTransport Layer Security (TLS) encrypts data in transit between client applications and the server and authenticates the service endpoint in client-server authentication. /p pAzure Database for MySQL server certificates are issued by well-known trusted public Certificate Authorities (CAs), including Microsoft-issu [...]

Published Monday, 27. July 2026 04:58 • 16 days ago

Introducing 🍃MClusterAdmin: A Lightweight GUI Tool for MongoDB DBAs ^{(from Percona Community Blog)}

Over the years working on various MongoDB troubleshooting cases, I’ve been wondering how to handle the longish JSON outputs from the most common diagnostic commands, like rs.status(), sh.status(), or db.currentOp(), not to mention db.serverStatus()! They are just painful and slow to read. I even came up with various scripts to present the data in table format, similar to what we know from MySQL, bu [...]

Published Monday, 27. July 2026 00:00 • 16 days ago

MITRE ATLAS - A 2025 Review ^{(from Ronald Bradford Blog)}

The MITRE ATLAS Matrix provides a working knowledge base of adversary tactics, techniques, and real-world case studies specifically for Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) systems. It adapts the established MITRE ATT&CK adversary tactics and techniques matrix which is the standard reference for traditional IT cybersecurity. [...]

Published Monday, 27. July 2026 00:00 • 16 days ago

MariaDB Performance Monitoring: 20 Essential Metrics Every DBA Should Track for Troubleshooting ^{(from MinervaDB Blog)}

Why MariaDB Performance Monitoring Fails Without Baselines MariaDB performance monitoring is what separates a diagnosis from a guess. Most MariaDB incidents are never actually diagnosed. When a production cluster degrades at 02:00, the on-call DBA [...] [...]

Published Sunday, 26. July 2026 19:29 • 17 days ago

The Queen and the “Half That Wasn’t Told” ^{(from MariaDB Foundation Blog)}

pThe Queen of Sheba did not travel lightly.br She arrived in Jerusalem with difficult questions, a large caravan, camels carrying spices, and an impressive quantity of gold. … /p pContinue reading \"The Queen and the “Half That Wasn’t Told”\"/p pThe Queen and the “Half That Wasn’t Told” appeared first on MariaDB.org/p [...]

Published Sunday, 26. July 2026 18:55 • 17 days ago

Say the Name: MariaDB, MySQL, and the Ecosystem We Share ^{(from lefred's blog)}

Names are important. They help us identify people, projects, products, pets, database servers, and occasionally the correct bug tracker. This may sound obvious, but the database world has spent more than fifteen years proving that it is not. MySQL and MariaDB share a substantial amount of history, syntax, tooling, knowledge, applications, and community. They also […] [...]

Published Saturday, 25. July 2026 16:01 • 18 days ago

The Agent Context Plane: How One Cluster Fixed the $50K Agent Bug ^{(from PingCAP Blog)}

pReal-time data has been the promise of the analytics stack for a decade. Dashboards refresh, pipelines run, and a human reads the result. That model holds right up until you ask an agent to act on the data instead of look at it. At TiDB SCaiLE Europe 2026 in Stockholm, Bernard Kavanagh, Solutions Architect at […]/p pThe post The Agent Context Plane: How One Cluster Fixed the $50K Agent Bug a [...]

Published Friday, 24. July 2026 14:32 • 19 days ago

IBM continues as a Platinum Sponsor of MariaDB Foundation ^{(from MariaDB Foundation Blog)}

pWe are delighted to announce that IBM is continuing its support of MariaDB Foundation as a Platinum Sponsor.br IBM’s sponsorship brings together two major enterprise computing platforms, IBM® … /p pContinue reading \"IBM continues as a Platinum Sponsor of MariaDB Foundation\"/p pIBM continues as a Platinum Sponsor of MariaDB Foundation appeared first on MariaDB.org/p [...]

Published Friday, 24. July 2026 13:12 • 19 days ago

Say the Name: MariaDB, MySQL, and the Ecosystem We Share ^{(from MariaDB Foundation Blog)}

pMariaDB and MySQL share history, tools, protocols and a large technical community. But compatibility does not mean identity—especially when reporting bugs. A MariaDB Connector/C issue submitted to the MySQL bug tracker offers a funny reminder to say the product’s actual name./p pSay the Name: MariaDB, MySQL, and the Ecosystem We Share appeared first on MariaDB.org/p [...]

Published Friday, 24. July 2026 06:58 • 19 days ago

Postgres backups under the hood ^{(from PlanetScale Blog)}

With backups being such a vital part of keeping your data safe, how do they actually work? [...]

Published Friday, 24. July 2026 00:00 • 19 days ago

Foundational Frameworks for GenAI Security Analysis ^{(from Ronald Bradford Blog)}

Three frameworks form the analytical foundation of this series’ threat analysis, selected for their complementary coverage of the GenAI security landscape and their broad adoption across enterprise security practices. The MITRE Adversarial Threat Landscape for AI Systems (MITRE ATLAS) maps tactics and techniques specific to AI systems. [...]

Published Friday, 24. July 2026 00:00 • 19 days ago

Percona Operator for MongoDB 1.23.0: ClusterSync Migration, Vector Search, and PVC Snapshot Backups ^{(from Percona Database Blog)}

pPercona Operator for MongoDB 1.23.0 makes the operator a place you move to, not just a place you start. A new ClusterSync component clones a live source and follows its change streams, so leaving a hosted service is a short cutover rather than a long outage. Alongside it, this release adds semantic vector search and … Continued/p pThe post Percona Operator for MongoDB 1.23.0: ClusterSync Mig [...]

Published Thursday, 23. July 2026 19:55 • 20 days ago

Amazon RDS for MySQL supports MySQL 9.7 in Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment ^{(from AWS What's New)}

pAmazon RDS for MySQL now supports version community MySQL 9.7 in the Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment, allowing you to evaluate the latest Release on Amazon RDS for MySQL. This preview environment provides a sandbox where you can test applications and explore new MySQL 9.7 capabilities before they become generally available.br br MySQL 9.7 is the latest Long-Term Support release f [...]

Published Thursday, 23. July 2026 18:05 • 20 days ago

The MySQL GUI Features Every Professional DBA Needs in 2026 ^{(from Webyog Blog)}

pChoosing a MySQL GUI is one of those decisions that looks simple from the outside — they all let you run queries and browse tables — but the right choice […]/p pThe post The MySQL GUI Features Every Professional DBA Needs in 2026 appeared first on Webyog./p [...]

Published Thursday, 23. July 2026 11:31 • 20 days ago

MariaDB GTID Info & Flashback Plugin ^{(from lefred's blog)}

Reversing Transactions Directly from the Binary Log Some ideas never completely disappear. They remain somewhere in your brain, waiting for the right opportunity—or the right API—to come back. For me, recovering rows from the binary log is one of those ideas. More than ten years ago, I started experimenting with a simple question: If row-based […] [...]

Published Thursday, 23. July 2026 05:49 • 20 days ago

What's new in Postgres 19 ^{(from PlanetScale Blog)}

`VACUUM` reclaims dead-tuple space but doesn't shrink a table. PostgreSQL 19 Beta 2 adds an in-core online rewrite with REPACK (CONCURRENTLY), and much more. [...]

Published Thursday, 23. July 2026 00:00 • 20 days ago

A first look at MySQL 26.7 Early Access ^{(from Ronald Bradford Blog)}

MySQL has dropped its newest release , categorized as “Early Access” and available at labs.mysql.com/ . While this post is not going to go into depth, I wanted to at least validate the management changes you verify between normal MySQL upgrades. [...]

Published Thursday, 23. July 2026 00:00 • 20 days ago

Why Agent Memory Needs a Database That Can Write Back ^{(from PingCAP Blog)}

pI’ve spent the last year helping enterprise teams put AI agents into real workflows: Fraud detection, infrastructure monitoring, customer intelligence. The conversations follow a predictable pattern. The first question is always about the model. Which LLM? Which orchestrator? The second question, about six weeks after go-live, is always about the data. Why is the agent […]/p pThe post [...]

Published Wednesday, 22. July 2026 20:08 • 21 days ago

Oracle’s July update fixes ten 10.0 vulnerabilities in Fusion Middleware ^{(from InfoWorld)}

pOracle’s July 2026 Critical Patch Update, its largest ever, contains 1,449 new security patches spanning 32 product families, from Oracle Database and E-Business Suite to PeopleSoft, GoldenGate, Java SE, and Fusion Middleware./p pFusion Middleware was particularly hard hit, with new security patches for 355 security vulnerabilities, 219 of them remotely exploitable withou [...]

Published Wednesday, 22. July 2026 18:18 • 21 days ago

PostgreSQL Point-in-Time Recovery with Oops-Queries ^{(from Shinguz's Blog)}

pWhile working on the topic “PostgreSQL for Dolphins and Sea Lions,” I discovered that in the PostgreSQL universe, the topic of point-in-time recovery tends to be sidestepped when it comes to specific statements or transactions. And when examples are provided, they primarily focus on DDL statements rather than DML statements./p blockquote pIf you want to recover to some previous point in time (say, [...]

Published Wednesday, 22. July 2026 15:26 • 21 days ago

How to Migrate from MySQL Galera Cluster to Percona XtraDB Cluster ^{(from Percona Database Blog)}

pOn December 1, 2025, MariaDB announced that MySQL Galera Cluster will reach end of life on September 30, 2026. After that date, the MySQL build of Galera stops receiving maintenance and binary releases, and all new clustering features land only in MariaDB Galera Cluster. MariaDB’s recommended path is an in-place migration onto their own server. … Continued/p pThe post How to Migrate fr [...]

Published Wednesday, 22. July 2026 09:56 • 21 days ago

Deploying the MariaDB Privacy-First Stack Anywhere with Terraform ^{(from MariaDB Foundation Blog)}

pIn my previous post, I introduced the MariaDB Privacy-First Stack.br Nextcloud for collaboration, Passbolt for passwords and secrets, and MariaDB Server for the data. … /p pContinue reading \"Deploying the MariaDB Privacy-First Stack Anywhere with Terraform\"/p pDeploying the MariaDB Privacy-First Stack Anywhere with Terraform appeared first on MariaDB.org/p [...]

Published Wednesday, 22. July 2026 09:07 • 21 days ago

"Why Didn't Our Database Fail Over?" - When NOT Failing Over Is the Right Answer ^{(from Continuent Blog)}

Technical explanation of why a high availability cluster may intentionally avoid failover, exploring quorum, replication state, cluster decision-making, and the safeguards that protect data integrity during failures. [...]

Published Wednesday, 22. July 2026 08:20 • 21 days ago

MySQL 9.7 Community Edition: Smarter Join Planning with the Hypergraph Optimizer ^{(from The Oracle MySQL Blog)}

With the release of MySQL 9.7 Community Edition, the Hypergraph Optimizer is now available to everyone. This is a significant addition to MySQL and one that has generated a lot of excitement in the MySQL community. The promise is simple: better execution plans for complex queries, especially those with many joins. Like most new features, […] [...]

Published Wednesday, 22. July 2026 06:00 • 21 days ago

Where is the technology breakdown? Can AI help? ^{(from Ronald Bradford Blog)}

On a major financial institution website I was asked to complete a contact form. This organization has millions of existing customers. This is not a startup, yet the quality of work is something a junior developer would fail at an interview if they provided the answer. [...]

Published Wednesday, 22. July 2026 00:00 • 21 days ago

AI-powered incident analysis for Amazon RDS using automated forensic artifacts ^{(from AWS Database Blog)}

In this post, we demonstrate a serverless approach to continuous forensic artifact collection for Amazon RDS and Amazon Aurora databases. By capturing point-in-time snapshots of database internals on a cadence and storing them in Amazon S3, you create a time-series record that AI tools can analyze in seconds. This turns what was hours of manual investigation into an instant conversation. [...]

Published Tuesday, 21. July 2026 17:02 • 22 days ago

OCI Cache and MySQL HeatWave: Better Together for High-Performance Applications ^{(from MySQL expert Diary)}

pModern applications are expected to deliver instant responses while processing increasingly large volumes of data. Achieving this level of performance isn’t simply a matter of making the database faster.It requires placing the right workload on the right layer of the architecture. Some operations require ultra-fast repeated reads, others demand transactional consistency, while analytical que [...]

Published Tuesday, 21. July 2026 12:14 • 22 days ago

From PostgreSQL 12 to MariaDB 11: A Gradual Fintech Migration with 23% Lower TCO ^{(from MariaDB Foundation Blog)}

pDatabase migrations are rarely only about replacing one database server with another.br In real production systems, especially in fintech, a migration is usually about reducing risk, keeping the application online, improving scalability, and giving teams more room to evolve the architecture without freezing product development. … /p pContinue reading \"From PostgreSQL 12 to MariaDB 11: A Gra [...]

Published Tuesday, 21. July 2026 09:13 • 22 days ago

Commit Optimization for Large MySQL Transactions ^{(from Libing Song's Blog)}

This article is also available in Chinese: 中文版. Browse all English articles. If you use and operate MySQL, you’ve surely run into a strange slow query like this: An INSERT that’s normally instant took 1.3s, and the slow-query log shows no long lock wait. Every statement in a multi-statement transaction had already finished, yet the COMMIT alone took 1.3s. When... [...]

Published Wednesday, 15. July 2026 02:00 • 28 days ago | Updated Tuesday, 21. July 2026 05:09 • 22 days ago

Binlog Transmission Optimization for Large MySQL Transactions ^{(from Libing Song's Blog)}

This article is also available in Chinese: 中文版. Browse all English articles. Large transactions are a notorious problem in MySQL: they cause not only replication lag but also stability problems. A previous article, MySQL Large Transaction Commit Optimization, covered the problems a large transaction causes at commit time and the optimizations we made in AliSQL. This article looks at the... [...]

Published Thursday, 16. July 2026 02:00 • 27 days ago | Updated Tuesday, 21. July 2026 04:42 • 22 days ago

Why My Mac Was Not Using Post-Quantum SSH With GitHub (And How I Fixed It) ^{(from Ronald Bradford Blog)}

In my previous post I made the case that the only post-quantum protection that counts is the algorithm your connection actually negotiates. This post is what happened when I checked my own laptop. [...]

Published Tuesday, 21. July 2026 00:00 • 22 days ago

ACID at Scale: Where ORMs and MySQL Disagree ^{(from PingCAP Blog)}

pIf you have ever watched an ORM-heavy application meet a sharded MySQL backend, you know the moment I mean. The code looks right. The tests pass. Then production traffic arrives, and you start seeing the impossible: An order without its line items, a user whose profile says one thing and whose billing record says another, […]/p pThe post ACID at Scale: Where ORMs and MySQL Disagree appeared [...]

Published Monday, 20. July 2026 20:53 • 23 days ago

MySQL on OKE: Database Operations as Kubernetes State ^{(from The Oracle MySQL Blog)}

MySQL is one of the databases developers trust most when an application needs a proven, familiar, open source relational engine. Kubernetes has become the orchestration layer teams rely on to run and scale modern workloads. Put them together, and the question gets interesting: how do you run MySQL with the same declarative, repeatable operating model […] [...]

Published Monday, 20. July 2026 14:26 • 23 days ago

OurSQL Foundation Gives MySQL Community an Independent Voice ^{(from LinuxInsider)}

♦A new nonprofit aims to strengthen MySQL's future by giving users and developers a stronger voice while Oracle retains ownership and development control. The post OurSQL Foundation Gives MySQL Community an Independent Voice appeared first on LinuxInsider. [...]

Published Monday, 20. July 2026 14:00 • 23 days ago

Optimizing Replication Lag for Large Transactions and DDL in MySQL ^{(from Libing Song's Blog)}

This article is also available in Chinese: 中文版. Browse all English articles. Since MySQL 5.6, the MySQL replication team has been working to reduce replication lag. The first step was schema-level parallel application of the binlog, but schema-level parallelism only helps when writes are spread across many databases; in the common case, where most write traffic hits a single database,... [...]

Published Friday, 17. July 2026 09:30 • 26 days ago | Updated Monday, 20. July 2026 12:43 • 23 days ago

MariaDB 13.1 Feature in Focus: Validate Your Configuration Before Starting the Server ^{(from lefred's blog)}

Have you ever modified a MariaDB configuration file, restarted the service, and immediately regretted it? You wanted to change: but accidentally wrote: One missing letter. That is enough to turn a perfectly healthy database server into a service that refuses to start. And of course, this kind of mistake never happens during a quiet maintenance […] [...]

Published Monday, 20. July 2026 11:04 • 23 days ago

MariaDB 13.1 Feature in Focus: Validate Your Configuration Before Starting the Server ^{(from MariaDB Foundation Blog)}

pHave you ever modified a MariaDB configuration file, restarted the service, and immediately regretted it?br You wanted to change:br but accidentally wrote:br One missing letter.br That is enough to turn a perfectly healthy database server into a service that refuses to start. … /p pContinue reading \"MariaDB 13.1 Feature in Focus: Validate Your Configuration Before Starting the Server\"/p pM [...]

Published Monday, 20. July 2026 10:54 • 23 days ago

MariaDB Tips & Tricks: Where does my configuration variable value come from? ^{(from lefred's blog)}

As you may already know, there are many places where a MariaDB system variable can get its value. It can come from: And when several configuration files are involved, finding the effective source is not always obvious. Fortunately, MariaDB provides this information in INFORMATION_SCHEMA.SYSTEM_VARIABLES. Let’s check this in action with max_connections. Checking the current value […] [...]

Published Monday, 20. July 2026 09:46 • 23 days ago

Using AI to modernize a Java project ^{(from Programming Brain)}

How I used AI coding agents to modernize a Java library. [...]

Published Monday, 20. July 2026 08:05 • 23 days ago

Running Ito, a Runtime Analysis Code Review Tool, on Doltgres ^{(from DoltHub Blog)}

For the past six weeks, we've been running Ito, a runtime analysis code review tool that works off of GitHub PRs and builds and runs your application instead of just reading the diff. We've had success using this on our Doltgresql repo and in this blog post we'll show what it's caught, how it works, and where it's let us down. [...]

Published Monday, 20. July 2026 00:00 • 23 days ago

Every UPDATE Leaves a Ghost: MVCC, Bloat, and VACUUM in PostgreSQL ^{(from PlanetScale Blog)}

What happens to old row versions after nobody needs them? They become dead tuples, and over time they bloat your tables. Go deeper into PostgreSQL MVCC with runnable psql examples. [...]

Published Monday, 20. July 2026 00:00 • 23 days ago

Q Day Is Coming: A Plain-English Guide to Post-Quantum Cryptography ^{(from Ronald Bradford Blog)}

Every time you see the padlock in your browser, push code over SSH, or your application connects to a database, TLS or SSH is quietly doing two jobs. First, it proves you are talking to the real server and not an impostor. [...]

Published Monday, 20. July 2026 00:00 • 23 days ago

From Tokyo to Seoul to Taipei: MySQL Community Conversations Across JAPAC ^{(from The Oracle MySQL Blog)}

Over the past year, we have taken important steps to increase transparency and engagement across the MySQL ecosystem. Through public roadmap discussions, Early Access releases, publication of worklogs, bug transparency and backlog reduction, community public discussions, increased use of GitHub discussions, and contributor events, we have created more opportunities for the community to understand w [...]

Published Friday, 17. July 2026 17:08 • 26 days ago

From One Week to 22 Minutes: How Bolt Migrated MySQL to TiDB ^{(from PingCAP Blog)}

pWhen a table crosses one terabyte, MySQL does not fail. It just starts charging for everything. A single index change takes over a week, blocks every other change queued behind it on the cluster, and demands a full shadow copy of the table just to run. At Bolt, whose ride-hailing, micromobility, delivery, and car rental […]/p pThe post From One Week to 22 Minutes: How Bolt Migrated MySQL to [...]

Published Friday, 17. July 2026 14:12 • 26 days ago

ClickHouse Schema Design and Data Modeling ^{(from Severalnines Blog)}

pSometimes, we see ClickHouse queries that should normally complete in milliseconds take several seconds to finish or worse, time out entirely. When that happens, there is a good chance that the schema is the real culprit. The problem is often not the query itself, nor is it a hardware bottleneck. Instead, it can stem from […]/p pThe post ClickHouse Schema Design and Data Modeling appeared fi [...]

Published Friday, 17. July 2026 12:48 • 26 days ago

Perconians at WeAreDevelopers World Congress 2026: Agents Everywhere, Security Wake-Up Calls, and Buzzword Bingo ^{(from Percona Community Blog)}

On July 9–10, the two of us - Sandra (Engineering, Percona for MongoDB) and Radek (Product, Percona for MongoDB) - packed our backpacks and headed to Berlin for the WeAreDevelopers World Congress Europe 2026 (WAD). The 11th edition of the congress gathered 15,000 developers and 500+ speakers for two intense days, and we came back with full notebooks, fresh ideas, and one very clear message from the [...]

Published Friday, 17. July 2026 11:00 • 26 days ago

A Native ADBC Driver for MariaDB ^{(from lefred's blog)}

Apache Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC) provides a standard interface for exchanging data between applications and databases using Apache Arrow. You can think of it as an Arrow-oriented alternative to traditional database APIs such as ODBC and JDBC. The important difference is that ADBC is designed around columnar data. Query results are returned as streams of […] [...]

Published Friday, 17. July 2026 05:57 • 26 days ago

Connect MySQL to Cursor with MCP (Step-by-Step) ^{(from datamcp — MySQL and MCP Notes)}

Connect Cursor to MySQL through a hosted MCP server. Create a restricted user, configure mcp.json, verify schema access, and test denied writes. [...]

Published Friday, 17. July 2026 00:00 • 26 days ago

Best MySQL MCP Servers 2026: 4 Compared ^{(from datamcp — MySQL and MCP Notes)}

Compare @benborla29/mcp-server-mysql, the Python mysql-mcp-server, DBHub, and hosted datamcp by deployment, permissions, credentials, and best use. [...]

Published Friday, 17. July 2026 00:00 • 26 days ago

VillageSQL Extensions with versioning ^{(from Ronald Bradford Blog)}

VillageSQL has just released it’s latest version 0.0.5 , describing this as stable release for installations with full MySQL 8.4.10 compatibility. With my primary work around extensions, specifically vsql-statistics , I took the new versioning features for a test. [...]

Published Friday, 17. July 2026 00:00 • 26 days ago

Novita Artifact Hosting + TiDB: Deploying AI-Generated Apps With One SDK Call ^{(from PingCAP Blog)}

pAI coding agents such as Cursor, Claude Code, and Devin can now produce a working application from a single prompt. However, most of this code still never reaches production. The blocker is rarely code quality. It is deployment. This blog explains how Novita Artifact Hosting turns an agent’s sandbox output into a live application, and […]/p pThe post Novita Artifact Hosting + TiDB: Deploying [...]

Published Thursday, 16. July 2026 17:52 • 27 days ago

Firefox add-on: lefred’s GroupKeep ^{(from lefred's blog)}

Firefox has had native Tab Groups (since version 141) to help organize your browsing… and I love this feature! However, what a disappointment when I realized that once Firefox closed, the groups were lost! But hey, this is open source, isn’t it? And Firefox easily supports extensions, so I am happy to announce lefred’s GroupKeep […] [...]

Published Thursday, 16. July 2026 17:38 • 27 days ago

When the Sea Lion teaches the Duck how to bark! ^{(from lefred's blog)}

You may have recently seen that MariaDB Server supports the DuckDB Storage Engine [1][2]. And that’s great. After my first look at it, Roman created those 3 MDEVs with my suggestions: And he started working on it! If we also check the roadmap, we can see that the DuckDB Engine will bring support for the […] [...]

Published Thursday, 16. July 2026 12:45 • 27 days ago

MySQL Major Version Upgrade Checklist – how to ^{(from Kedar MySQL Blog)}

pThis article provides MySQL Major Version Upgrade Checklist along with video, one may follow to ease the upgarde task./p The post MySQL Major Version Upgrade Checklist – how to first appeared on Change Is Inevitable. [...]

Published Thursday, 16. July 2026 12:00 • 27 days ago

Introducing Mountaineers: A Way to Say Thank You ^{(from Percona Community Blog)}

You filed a bug report at 11pm because you’d already done the work to isolate it. You answered a forum question that had been sitting unanswered for three days. You wrote a PR. You spent an hour on a call telling us what’s broken about a tool you use every day. None of that is small, and none of it should go unnoticed. [...]

Published Thursday, 16. July 2026 11:00 • 27 days ago

No One Can Plan the Future of Infra: TiDB's AI Evolution Journey ^{(from siddontang on Medium)}

pHow customer demand pulled TiDB from database, to filesystem, to workspace, to unified storage for agents./ppIf you only look at the outcome, TiDB's product shape has been changing very quickly in the AI era./ppIt went from a database to a serverless database; from a database an agent can create and destroy on demand, to a filesystem, a cloud drive, and a coding workspace; and then, gradually, [...]

Published Thursday, 16. July 2026 07:22 • 27 days ago

When Your Database Grows a File System — The Story Behind TiDB Cloud's Filesystem Interface ^{(from siddontang on Medium)}

pWhy a database filesystem makes sense for AI workloads with massive unstructured data./ppWe recently shipped a Filesystem interface on TiDB Cloud and built a file service demo on top of it called drive9./ppAs a distributed OLTP database, many people's first reaction is probably: are you kidding? A filesystem interface on a database?/ppHonestly, we thought it was absurd too — until we started g [...]

Published Thursday, 16. July 2026 07:00 • 27 days ago

Missed the May 2026 MySQL Contributor Summit? Watch Every Session On Demand ^{(from The Oracle MySQL Blog)}

The inaugural MySQL Contributor Summit, held in May 2026, brought together Oracle engineers, customers, partners, and members of the open source community for a full day of technical collaboration focused on the future of MySQL. The Summit featured more than 20 sessions covering topics including AI integration, performance, observability, replication, developer experience, extensibility, and commun [...]

Published Thursday, 16. July 2026 06:00 • 27 days ago

Dolt in Four Flavors ^{(from DoltHub Blog)}

We now have the Dolt database that is right for you, whether that is classic Dolt, Doltgres, DoltLite, or Dumbo. Soon, all these databases will work with DoltHub, DoltLab, Hosted Dolt, and Dolt Workbench. [...]

Published Thursday, 16. July 2026 00:00 • 27 days ago

From SQLite to MariaDB: When Your Application Needs to Grow ^{(from lefred's blog)}

SQLite is fantastic. Really. For a developer starting a new project, it is difficult to find something easier: no server to install, no network configuration, no user management, no backup strategy to define on day one. You create a file, you open it from your application, and you are ready to store data. That is […] [...]

Published Wednesday, 15. July 2026 18:45 • 28 days ago

Announcing VillageSQL Server 0.0.5 ^{(from VillageSQL)}

Announcing VillageSQL Server 0.0.5: in-place extension upgrades, version pinning, variable-length custom types, and statement hooks. [...]

Published Wednesday, 15. July 2026 18:15 • 28 days ago

Multi-Cluster Replication, FIPS Mode, and More with MariaDB Enterprise Kubernetes Operator 26.06 ^{(from MariaDB Corporation Blog)}

What is the MariaDB Enterprise Kubernetes Operator? The MariaDB Enterprise Kubernetes Operator makes it easier to run and manage MariaDB […] [...]

Published Wednesday, 15. July 2026 17:13 • 28 days ago

Amazon RDS and Aurora now support R8g and M8g database instances in additional AWS Regions ^{(from AWS What's New)}

pAWS Graviton4-based R8g database instances are now generally available for Amazon Aurora (MySQL and PostgreSQL compatibility) and Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB in Asia Pacific (Hyderabad, Melbourne, Malaysia), Europe (London, Paris, Zurich), AWS GovCloud (US-East), South America (Sao Paulo), and Mexico (Central) regions. Additionally, M8g instances are now supported for Amazon RDS [...]

Published Wednesday, 15. July 2026 17:00 • 28 days ago

Database Index Optimizer ^{(from Shinguz's Blog)}

pRecently, a client asked me if the “time-consuming” task of checking indexes could be left to an index optimizer. Of course it can…/p pWhat exactly do we want to check?/p ul liTables without a Primary Key/li liDuplicate indexes/li liPartially redundant indexes/li liUnused indexes/li /ul MariaDB, MySQL, and Percona Server Tables without a Primary Key precodeSQL> SELECT DISTINCT t.table_sc [...]

Published Wednesday, 15. July 2026 14:55 • 28 days ago

“The database is the product”: What breaks when memory devices scale ^{(from The New Stack)}

♦pImagine you just finished a two-hour meeting. You were wearing a small AI work companion that promised to capture the/p pThe post “The database is the product”: What breaks when memory devices scale appeared first on The New Stack./p [...]

Published Wednesday, 15. July 2026 12:00 • 28 days ago

GTID Mode on a Tungsten Replicator Target Node: What's Safe, What's Not, and How DDL Really Travels ^{(from Continuent Blog)}

Technical guide to enabling GTID mode on a Tungsten Replicator target node, covering compatibility, replication internals, DDL propagation, and operational considerations for safe deployment. [...]

Published Wednesday, 15. July 2026 09:32 • 28 days ago

Two-level hashing for improved scans in distributed databases ^{(from Mikael Ronstrom)}

pIn a distributed database using hash partitioning for the tables there is usually two options when you scan a table. Either you know the partition key and only scan a single partition, or you scan all partitions./p pAssume you are scanning for hundreds of rows. It could be a table containing the files in a directory as an example, or it could be the events from a user. In both cases both variants [...]

Published Tuesday, 14. July 2026 14:03 • 29 days ago | Updated Wednesday, 15. July 2026 06:40 • 28 days ago

Inside MySQL 9.7 LTS Features ^{(from Percona Database Blog)}

pMySQL 9.7, a Long-Term Support (LTS) release, incorporates a variety of potential features spanning across multiple technical domains. This article covers some of the primary features introduced and evaluates their practical utility within the MySQL database environment. Following the End-of-Life (EOL) status of MySQL 8.0, this subsequent LTS release is designed to provide enhanced stability ̷ [...]

Published Wednesday, 15. July 2026 05:00 • 28 days ago

Time-travel for PostgreSQL: one SELECT vs a full restore vs replaying the WAL ^{(from dbtrail Blog)}

pPostgreSQL now lets you ask what a row contained at any moment in the past, using a normal SELECT. This post shows the idea with one small example,…/p pThe post Time-travel for PostgreSQL: one SELECT vs a full restore vs replaying the WAL appeared first on dbtrail./p [...]

Published Wednesday, 15. July 2026 01:53 • 28 days ago

Making 768 servers look like 1 ^{(from PlanetScale Blog)}

How to make 768 distinct Postgres servers look like 1 to your applications. [...]

Published Wednesday, 15. July 2026 00:00 • 28 days ago

Open-source AI is just “4 months behind” closed frontier models — and 10x cheaper ^{(from The New Stack)}

♦pA quiet revolution is brewing in the AI model space. The dominance of proprietary closed frontier models has been cemented/p pThe post Open-source AI is just “4 months behind” closed frontier models — and 10x cheaper appeared first on The New Stack./p [...]

Published Tuesday, 14. July 2026 16:04 • 29 days ago

TiDB Cloud Cross-Region PITR: Disaster Recovery Without a Second Production Stack ^{(from PingCAP Blog)}

pFor mission-critical TiDB Cloud Dedicated customers, high availability cannot stop at the region boundary. Single-region HA protects against node failures, availability-zone incidents, and localized infrastructure problems. When an entire cloud region becomes unavailable, customers need a verified recovery point in another region, a predictable restore path, and a cost model that does no [...]

Published Tuesday, 14. July 2026 15:19 • 29 days ago

Whitepaper: MariaDB, IBM Storage Virtualize, and VMware — Integrations, Implementation, and Best Practices ^{(from MinervaDB Blog)}

MariaDB on VMware vSphere backed by IBM Storage Virtualize block storage has become the default operating model for enterprise database estates, and this whitepaper explains how to architect, implement, and operate it well. Running MariaDB [...] [...]

Published Tuesday, 14. July 2026 10:28 • 29 days ago

MariaDB Hidden Gem: Online Schema Change without pt-osc ^{(from lefred's blog)}

When people hear “online schema change” in the MySQL and MariaDB world, many immediately think about pt-online-schema-change. And for good reasons: for years, changing a large table in production was one of those tasks that could ruin your day. Recently, I discovered that MariaDB includes a very useful hidden gem I completely missed: the ability […] [...]

Published Tuesday, 14. July 2026 09:12 • 29 days ago

MariaDB Hidden Gem: Online Schema Change without pt-osc ^{(from MariaDB Foundation Blog)}

pWhen people hear “online schema change” in the MySQL and MariaDB world, many immediately think about pt-online-schema-change. And for good reasons: for years, changing a large table in production was one of those tasks that could ruin your day. … /p pContinue reading \"MariaDB Hidden Gem: Online Schema Change without pt-osc\"/p pThe post MariaDB Hidden Gem: Online Schema Change w [...]

Published Tuesday, 14. July 2026 09:12 • 29 days ago

Instant Schema Changes in Airtable’s New Database ^{(from Airtable Engineering Blog)}

pIn our last post, we explained why we rewrote Airtable’s in-memory database in Rust. This post is about a specific tradeoff that came with it: keeping schema changes fast./ppOur legacy JavaScript database could add or remove a column without rewriting any existing rows, so schema changes were very quick. The new database’s row layout is more compact and faster to read, but that comes with a cost: [...]

Published Monday, 13. July 2026 17:44 • 30 days ago

Building and testing MySQL 8.0.46 / 8.4.9 / 9.7.0 under macOS ^{(from Laurynas Biveinis' blog)}

p Oracle MySQL 8.0.46, 8.4.9, and 9.7.0 are out (while I was drafting this, 8.4.10 and 9.7.1 came out too - based on them being security hotfixes and on source diff review I assume they build and test the same), thus I did my usual testing of compiling (Release, Debug, and Debug with ASan and UBSan) and running the testsuite under macOS 26.5.2 on Apple Silicon, with Xcode 26.6, and a range of Homeb [...]

Published Friday, 03. July 2026 13:15 • 1 months ago | Updated Monday, 13. July 2026 14:38 • 30 days ago

Building and testing the MySQL 26.7.0 early access build on macOS ^{(from Laurynas Biveinis' blog)}

p Oracle released the MySQL 26.7.0 community early access build. I did my part in my usual way (previously: 9.7.0 in the early access series; 8.0.46 / 8.4.9 / 9.7.0 in the main series). /p Build p As has been the rule for a while now, there is no need to use the bundled third-party libraries, as the Homebrew versions work. The current Xcode (26.6) builds the 26.7.0 early access build fine in all [...]

Published Monday, 13. July 2026 14:38 • 30 days ago | Updated Monday, 13. July 2026 14:38 • 30 days ago

MyDumper Locking Mechanisms Revisited: Introducing SAFE_NO_LOCK ^{(from Percona Database Blog)}

pAbout a year ago, we discussed how MyDumper refactored its locking mechanisms to move away from old, rigid flags and transitioned towards more flexible, streamlined execution. Since then, the MyDumper community hasn’t stood still. In recent releases, the locking architecture was further standardized under a single overarching option: --sync-thread-lock-mode. Along with this modernization cam [...]

Published Monday, 13. July 2026 12:24 • 30 days ago

Dynamic Data Masking (DDM) with MySQL Enterprise Edition 9.7: Reduce your sensitive data exposure. ^{(from The Oracle MySQL Blog)}

With the new LTS (Long Term Support) release of MySQL 9.7.0 dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/mysql/9.7/en/ , Dynamic Data Masking (DDM) is one of the new features introduced as part of Enterprise Edition. The recent blog by Mike Frank, MySQL Product Management Director, details why DDM is important in every industry where PII (Personal Identifiable Information) data is stored […] [...]

Published Monday, 13. July 2026 11:48 • 30 days ago

InnoDB Flushing is simple – explained ^{(from Kedar MySQL Blog)}

pAs a junior once I asked a seasoned MySQL DBA (Abuelo) “How do you stay so calm in critical situations?”Abuelo DBA then uttered golden words: “Son, I keep my dirty…/p The post InnoDB Flushing is simple – explained first appeared on Change Is Inevitable. [...]

Published Monday, 13. July 2026 05:15 • 1 months ago

Dolt + TeamCity: Data Commits Now Trigger Builds ^{(from DoltHub Blog)}

A community plugin teaches TeamCity to treat a Dolt database as version control: data commits trigger builds, data tests, and binary packages. [...]

Published Monday, 13. July 2026 00:00 • 1 months ago

When the Postgres query planner goes rogue ^{(from PlanetScale Blog)}

How PlanetScale Database Traffic Control contained a runaway Postgres query after the planner abandoned an index. [...]

Published Monday, 13. July 2026 00:00 • 1 months ago

How to Do UPDATE … LIMIT in PostgreSQL (With Standard SQL Alternatives) ^{(from MinervaDB Blog)}

If you have ever migrated a workload from MySQL to PostgreSQL, you have probably hit a wall the first time you tried to run a statement like UPDATE mytable SET status = 'done' LIMIT 100;. [...] [...]

Published Saturday, 11. July 2026 17:29 • 1 months ago

HTAP Was Right. AI Agents Are Proving Why. ^{(from PingCAP Blog)}

pWhen Databricks introduced LTAP (Lake Transactional and Analytical Processing) at this year’s Data + AI Summit, it sparked an important conversation about the future of enterprise data platforms. The announcement deserves attention because it recognizes a fundamental shift: modern AI applications can no longer treat transactional and analytical data as separate worlds. We agree. Where [̷ [...]

Published Friday, 10. July 2026 19:15 • 1 months ago

Running DuckDB as a MySQL 9.7 storage engine ^{(from Percona Database Blog)}

pducksdb-mysql-engine is an experimental build of MySQL 9.7 where a table you mark ENGINE=DuckDB answers analytical queries from DuckDB instead of InnoDB. Same server, same connection, no second copy of the data. On TPC-H at scale factor 10, InnoDB times out on 6 of the 22 queries and burns 1317 seconds on the 16 it … Continued/p pThe post Running DuckDB as a MySQL 9.7 storage engine appeared [...]

Published Friday, 10. July 2026 13:38 • 1 months ago

MariaDB 13.1 Feature in Focus: BLOB, TEXT, JSON and GEOMETRY Support in the HEAP Engine ^{(from MariaDB Foundation Blog)}

pSome contributions improve MariaDB Server by adding new capabilities.br Some go further: they start from a concrete production problem with an existing feature, not a bug, but a design limitation, solve it upstream, and leave the whole ecosystem better off. … /p pContinue reading \"MariaDB 13.1 Feature in Focus: BLOB, TEXT, JSON and GEOMETRY Support in the HEAP Engine\"/p pThe post MariaDB 1 [...]

Published Friday, 10. July 2026 04:29 • 1 months ago

Doltgres Reaches 99% Compliance on SQL Logic Tests ^{(from DoltHub Blog)}

Doltgres now passes 99% of our SQL Logic Test suite, hitting one of our key correctness targets for the Doltgres 1.0 launch on August 6th. [...]

Published Friday, 10. July 2026 00:00 • 1 months ago

TiDB ^{(from ODBMS.org)}

TiDB is an open source distributed SQL database featuring hybrid transactional and analytical processing (HTAP) capabilities in a single system. It is MySQL-compatible, horizontally scalable, and designed for applications requiring both real-time OLTP and... [...]

Published Thursday, 09. July 2026 19:34 • 1 months ago

An Easy Path from MySQL to MariaDB: Introducing MariaDB Migrator ^{(from MariaDB Corporation Blog)}

Migrating from MySQL to MariaDB is not considered to be an overly complex process. After all, the two databases share […] [...]

Published Thursday, 09. July 2026 18:05 • 1 months ago

Why a five-minute sniff test is your secret supply chain defense ^{(from The New Stack)}

♦pIn its updated 2025 guidance on SBOMs, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) states, “An SBOM should include information/p pThe post Why a five-minute sniff test is your secret supply chain defense appeared first on The New Stack./p [...]

Published Thursday, 09. July 2026 16:00 • 1 months ago

MySQL 9.x: Moving Away From SHA1 and MD5 ^{(from The Oracle MySQL Blog)}

TL;DR If you use MD5(), SHA1(), or SHA() in MySQL today, start planning the move to SHA2(). Beginning with MySQL 9.6, MD5(), SHA1(), and SHA() are no longer native built-in SQL functions in the server binary. They are available through the Legacy Hashing Component: That component should be treated as a stopgap solution. It gives […] [...]

Published Thursday, 09. July 2026 13:20 • 1 months ago

The Multi-Tenant Agent Database: Why the Scale Problem Just Inverted ^{(from PingCAP Blog)}

pWhen an agent platform hosts tens of millions of agent-created applications, and every one of them needs a database, the traditional answer is millions of dedicated Postgres or MySQL instances. The cost of that answer is unacceptable. That infrastructure problem, not model quality, is what Ed Huang, co-founder and CTO of TiDB, put at the […]/p pThe post The Multi-Tenant Agent Database: Why t [...]

Published Thursday, 09. July 2026 13:14 • 1 months ago

MySQL 8.0 to 8.4 LTS Migration Checklist: A Step-by-Step Upgrade Guide ^{(from Mydbops Blog)}

Prepare your database for MySQL 8.4 LTS. Use our complete migration checklist to bypass breaking changes and avoid RDS 8.0 Extended Support fees. [...]

Published Thursday, 09. July 2026 04:42 • 1 months ago

Using MariaDB Serverless Cloud Deployment for Uneven AI Workloads ^{(from MariaDB Corporation Blog)}

The promise of “serverless” is attractive to AI developers. Serverless is a cloud computing model that abstracts away infrastructure management, […] [...]

Published Wednesday, 08. July 2026 20:24 • 1 months ago

The EU Cloud Managed Services Gap: What AWS Ships That Sovereign Clouds Still Don’t ^{(from Techstrong.IT)}

pEvery conversation about EU digital sovereignty eventually runs into the same wall: leadership wants workloads off AWS for compliance or political reasons, and the platform team says it can't be done without rebuilding half the stack by hand. Both sides are right. The infrastructure layer — compute, storage, networking — is essentially commoditized across European [...]/p pThe post The EU Cloud M [...]

Published Wednesday, 08. July 2026 20:07 • 1 months ago

MariaDB Foundation Sea Lion Champions Nominees: Federico Razzoli ^{(from MariaDB Foundation Blog)}

pInterview with Federico Razzoli, nominated in the Community Leadership category.br The MariaDB Foundation Sea Lion Champions program celebrates the people and organizations who help make the MariaDB ecosystem stronger, more open, and more useful for everyone. … /p pContinue reading \"MariaDB Foundation Sea Lion Champions Nominees: Federico Razzoli\"/p pThe post MariaDB Foundation Sea Lion Ch [...]

Published Wednesday, 08. July 2026 14:18 • 1 months ago

Why Identical MySQL Backups Have Different Sizes: An XtraBackup Investigation ^{(from Mydbops Blog)}

Investigating why two identical MySQL databases produced different backup sizes with Percona XtraBackup. Learn how version differences shift default compression from QuickLZ to ZSTD. [...]

Published Wednesday, 08. July 2026 05:41 • 1 months ago

Deadlocks and downtime ^{(from PlanetScale Blog)}

Deadlocks happen when transactions block each other. Learn how they escalate into downtime, how to reduce them through better queries and retry logic, and how Traffic Control can protect your database from your application. [...]

Published Wednesday, 08. July 2026 00:00 • 1 months ago

Updated MariaDB C++ and ODBC Connectors now available ^{(from MariaDB Corporation Blog)}

MariaDB is pleased to announce the immediate availability of MariaDB Connector/C++ 1.1.8 and 1.0.7 and MariaDB Connector/ODBC 3.2.9 and 3.1.23. […] [...]

Published Tuesday, 07. July 2026 15:23 • 1 months ago

The Infrastructure You Choose Is the Company You Become ^{(from PingCAP Blog)}

pBelieving in Growth: A Hard Question From a Distributed Systems Veteran A few years ago, I was talking with the chief architect of a very well-known global company that offers a home sharing marketplace. He opened with a genuinely tough question. “Siddon, I have spent decades building distributed systems. Google Bigtable, for one. I have […]/p pThe post The Infrastructure You Choose Is [...]

Published Tuesday, 07. July 2026 14:32 • 1 months ago

Percona Operator for MySQL 1.2.0: Cross-Site Replication, Encrypted Backups, and Automatic Storage Scaling ^{(from Percona Database Blog)}

p Percona Operator for MySQL 1.2.0 is out, and it closes three gaps that platform teams hit once a MySQL deployment grows past a single cluster. Picture a fleet that has outgrown one region: you want a warm replica cluster in a second data center, backups in object storage that pass an auditor’s encryption check, … Continued/p pThe post Percona Operator for MySQL 1.2.0: Cross-Site [...]

Published Tuesday, 07. July 2026 13:19 • 1 months ago

Comparing Migration Methods from the Crunchy Data PostgreSQL Operator to the Percona Operator for PostgreSQL ^{(from Percona Database Blog)}

pMigrating a production PostgreSQL database on Kubernetes is not only about moving data from one operator to another. It is also about choosing the right trade-off between downtime, operational complexity, rollback safety, cost, and business risk. Practical migration paths from the Crunchy Data PostgreSQL Operator to the Percona Operator for PostgreSQL are described here. 1. … Continued/p pT [...]

Published Tuesday, 07. July 2026 13:01 • 1 months ago

TAF 3.0 — Results Backend With Automated Performance Change Detection ^{(from MariaDB Foundation Blog)}

pTAF 3.0 introduces the new TAF Results Backend, a structured results database and parser pipeline that delivers fully automated performance change detection. … /p pContinue reading \"TAF 3.0 — Results Backend With Automated Performance Change Detection\"/p pThe post TAF 3.0 — Results Backend With Automated Performance Change Detection appeared first on MariaDB.org./p [...]

Published Tuesday, 07. July 2026 10:55 • 1 months ago

MySQL 8.4 Upgrade Guide: Navigating Major Incompatible Changes ^{(from Mydbops Blog)}

Preparing for MySQL 8.4 LTS? Prevent startup failures and application outages by understanding the critical incompatibilities in configuration, auth, and schema. [...]

Published Tuesday, 07. July 2026 04:18 • 1 months ago

Cross-site Disaster Recovery with Percona Operator for MySQL ^{(from Percona Community Blog)}

A MySQL InnoDB Cluster provides high availability for a single database cluster using Group Replication. This works well for node failures inside the cluster, but disaster recovery usually requires another cluster in a separate location: another Kubernetes cluster, region, data center, or cloud. [...]

Published Monday, 06. July 2026 10:00 • 1 months ago

MariaDB Server Plugins: disabled functions ^{(from MariaDB Foundation Blog)}

pDuring the last MariaDB Foundation Board Meeting (24 June 2026), Barry shared how it can be difficult to deploy an upgrade immediately and that they sometimes have to wait for one that fixes security bugs. … /p pContinue reading \"MariaDB Server Plugins: disabled functions\"/p pThe post MariaDB Server Plugins: disabled functions appeared first on MariaDB.org./p [...]

Published Monday, 06. July 2026 08:33 • 1 months ago

MySQL Community Server 26.7 Early Access Release ^{(from The Oracle MySQL Blog)}

MySQL 26.7 is the initial MySQL Innovation release following the MySQL 9.7 LTS release and uses the new yy.mmCalVer versioning model for quarterly Innovation releases. This Early Access release provides a preview of selected functionality planned for the MySQL Community Server package and gives users an opportunity to evaluate upcoming changes before general availability. Download MySQL [̷ [...]

Published Friday, 03. July 2026 16:58 • 1 months ago

MariaDB 13.1 Feature in Focus: DENY / Negative Grants ^{(from lefred's blog)}

MariaDB 13.1 Preview is full of nice things. Some are immediately visible to developers, like the new JSON operators. Some are very useful to DBAs, such as configuration validation. And some are about making security and access control easier to manage. Today, let’s look at one of those: DENY, also known as negative grants. Yes, […] [...]

Published Friday, 03. July 2026 14:07 • 1 months ago

MariaDB 13.1 Feature in Focus: DENY / Negative Grants ^{(from MariaDB Foundation Blog)}

pMariaDB 13.1 Preview is full of nice things.br Some are immediately visible to developers, like the new JSON operators. Some are very useful to DBAs, such as configuration validation. … /p pContinue reading \"MariaDB 13.1 Feature in Focus: DENY / Negative Grants\"/p pThe post MariaDB 13.1 Feature in Focus: DENY / Negative Grants appeared first on MariaDB.org./p [...]

Published Friday, 03. July 2026 14:04 • 1 months ago

Monthly Product Pulse: July 2026—Oracle Technical Resources ^{(from Oracle ACE Program)}

July delivers another strong collection of technical content from across Oracle, with a particular focus on Oracle AI Database, enterprise AI, application development, and cloud technologies. This month’s resources explore everything from SQL performance and data integrity to agentic AI, durable memory architectures, Oracle Integration, MySQL, and upcoming community events. Whether you’ [...]

Published Friday, 03. July 2026 12:38 • 1 months ago

Databricks unifies OLTP and OLAP, depending on what counts as a copy ^{(from The Register)}

LTAP architecture does some clever engineering beneath a debatable marketing pitch [...]

Published Friday, 03. July 2026 08:30 • 1 months ago

Continuent joins MariaDB Foundation as a Silver Sponsor ^{(from MariaDB Foundation Blog)}

pMariaDB Foundation is pleased to welcome Continuent as a new Silver Sponsor.br Continuent develops solutions for organizations running business-critical applications on MariaDB and other MySQL-compatible databases. … /p pContinue reading \"Continuent joins MariaDB Foundation as a Silver Sponsor\"/p pThe post Continuent joins MariaDB Foundation as a Silver Sponsor appeared first on MariaDB.or [...]

Published Friday, 03. July 2026 05:07 • 1 months ago

Lowering the Barrier for MariaDB Plugin Development: Plugins in More Languages ^{(from lefred's blog)}

MariaDB Server has long supported a flexible plugin architecture. Plugins allow developers to extend server functionality in areas such as data types, auditing, storage engines, information schema tables, and more. Today, MariaDB Server plugins are typically developed in C or C++, like the server’s codebase. At least for a while Even with the current plugin-writing […] [...]

Published Friday, 03. July 2026 04:43 • 1 months ago

Lowering the Barrier for MariaDB Plugin Development: Plugins in More Languages ^{(from MariaDB Foundation Blog)}

pMariaDB Server has long supported a flexible plugin architecture. Plugins allow developers to extend server functionality in areas such as data types, auditing, storage engines, information schema tables, and more. … /p pContinue reading \"Lowering the Barrier for MariaDB Plugin Development: Plugins in More Languages\"/p pThe post Lowering the Barrier for MariaDB Plugin Development: Plugins [...]

Published Friday, 03. July 2026 04:42 • 1 months ago

Nextcloud renews its Silver sponsorship of MariaDB Foundation ^{(from MariaDB Foundation Blog)}

pMariaDB Foundation is pleased to announce that Nextcloud has renewed its Silver sponsorship for another year.br Nextcloud and MariaDB are widely used together by organisations that want greater control over their data and infrastructure. … /p pContinue reading \"Nextcloud renews its Silver sponsorship of MariaDB Foundation\"/p pThe post Nextcloud renews its Silver sponsorship of MariaDB Foun [...]

Published Thursday, 02. July 2026 21:58 • 1 months ago

How DB Trail guarantees a recovery would actually be correct: Data Validation ^{(from dbtrail Blog)}

pA backup you never restored is not really a backup, it is a hope. This is how DB Trail checks the whole recovery chain (capture, storage and reconstruction), and how you can wire that check into CI so you find out it is broken on a normal day, not during an incident./p pThe post How DB Trail guarantees a recovery would actually be correct: Data Validation appeared first on dbtrail./p [...]

Published Thursday, 02. July 2026 18:29 • 1 months ago

Smooth AI criminal drives 'first' end-to-end agentic ransomware attack ^{(from The Register)}

Don't count on the LLM to return your data - even if you pay up [...]

Published Thursday, 02. July 2026 18:05 • 1 months ago

Threadpool Performance Assessment - MySQL 9.7.0 vs Mariadb 13.0.1 ^{(from mysql tips)}

Why this assessment of MySQL 9.7.0 vs Mariadb 13.0.1 for threadpoolMariaDB’s thread pool is open source; MySQL’s requires a commercial license and some variation is there so, I thought of assessing to know the real gain of threadpool in terms of performance. This performance assessment, I did on on my 6 core ubuntu 24.0 laptop for read-only, read-write and tpcc cached worklo [...]

Published Wednesday, 03. June 2026 17:31 • 2 months ago | Updated Thursday, 02. July 2026 15:47 • 1 months ago

Learning and tips from performance assessment of duckdb in mariadb ^{(from mysql tips)}

pWhy this bog: /ppI thought of sharing what I leanred from recent perforamance/benchmark assessment of duckdb storage engine for mariadb/pSetuppFirst of all, if you want setup duckdb for mariadb , please refer 2 good blogs:/pp1.mariadb.org/duckdb-storage-engine-for-mariadb-when-the-sea-lion-learns-to-quack/ - In case, you want to build from source and install./pNote: In case you find issue rel [...]

Published Tuesday, 30. June 2026 16:33 • 1 months ago | Updated Thursday, 02. July 2026 15:47 • 1 months ago

Still on MySQL 5.7 or 8.0? Those high-severity CVE fixes are covered ^{(from Percona Database Blog)}

pUpstream MySQL published an out-of-schedule release this week with two high-severity CVE fixes. If you’re running Percona Server for MySQL 5.7 or 8.0 under Extended Lifecycle Support (ELS), the program we previously called Post EOL Support, you don’t have to do anything to qualify for them. We’ve already applied the fixes and re-released the affected … Continued/p pThe post [...]

Published Thursday, 02. July 2026 08:01 • 1 months ago

Village News: Village News: MySQL News + Events (1 July 2026) ^{(from VillageSQL)}

pAs part of building the MySQL Community, we are going to publish a curated overview of MySQL and database news and events that you might have missed over the last period./ppIf you want to get these updates, just subscribe to the blog. /ppEnjoy!/pMySQL News:pNote: Aggregated MySQL/p [...]

Published Wednesday, 01. July 2026 20:25 • 1 months ago

Cross-account and cross-Region monitoring for Amazon RDS and Aurora with Database Insights ^{(from AWS Database Blog)}

This post shows you how to set up centralized cross-account and cross-Region monitoring for Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) and Amazon Aurora databases using Amazon CloudWatch Database Insights. Whether your databases are spread across two AWS accounts or ten, and across one Region or several, this walkthrough gives you a single monitoring account with visibility across your entire [...]

Published Wednesday, 01. July 2026 15:55 • 1 months ago

Amazon RDS log analysis: natural language queries with Kiro and MCP ^{(from AWS Database Blog)}

In this post, we demonstrate an approach to review RDS logs using Kiro, an AI-powered conversational assistant combined with the Model Context Protocol (MCP) server from awslabs.cloudwatch-mcp-server. This solution transforms log analysis from a technical, query-based process into a natural language conversation, delivering actionable insights instantly. [...]

Published Wednesday, 01. July 2026 15:53 • 1 months ago

MySQL & MySQL HeatWave Report – June 2026 ^{(from MySQL expert Diary)}

pKeeping up with the MySQL ecosystem is becoming increasingly challenging. Every release introduces new features, performance improvements, security enhancements, and cloud capabilities. While the official documentation is comprehensive, it is not always easy to quickly identify what really matters./p pTo help with that, I've published a new edition of my MySQL & MySQL HeatWave Report, coverin [...]

Published Wednesday, 01. July 2026 13:05 • 1 months ago

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A blog / news aggregator (Planet) for the MySQL Community / Ecosystem

Wednesday, 12. August 2026

COSCUP 2026: Planning your upgrade to MySQL 9.7 (from Ronald Bradford Blog)

Tuesday, 11. August 2026

Migrate RDS and Aurora logs to CloudWatch Infrequent Access (from AWS Database Blog)

From Replication to Resilience: Miguel Araújo on Building the Operational Layer of MySQL High Availability (from ODBMS.org)

MySQL Replication: How to Set It Up and Monitor It Effectively (from Webyog Blog)

Percona for MongoDB: RHEL 10, Its Derivatives, and Debian 13 – On Both x86_64 and ARM (from Percona Database Blog)

Amazon RDS for MariaDB now supports MariaDB 12.3 (from AWS What's New)

How to set up automated database failover testing (from Mydbops Blog)

Making the PostgreSQL Documentation Even Better (from Shinguz's Blog)

The dangers of Postgres subtransactions (from PlanetScale Blog)

Monday, 10. August 2026

MariaDB Foundation is pleased to welcome Auree as a Silver Sponsor. (from MariaDB Foundation Blog)

Why Agentic AI Architecture Needs a Database, Not Just a Vector Store (from PingCAP Blog)

Teaching MariaDB About Your Domain (from lefred's blog)

MySQL 9.7 LTS: Troubleshooting Replication Lag Using New Metrics (from Mydbops Blog)

MariaDB 12.3 LTS: Advances and Building Fault-Tolerant MariaDB Infrastructure at Internet Scale (from MinervaDB Blog)

Saturday, 08. August 2026

MySQL and MariaDB High Availability vs. Disaster Recovery: What’s the Difference (and Why It Matters) (from Continuent Blog)

Friday, 07. August 2026

MariaDB Node.js Connector 3.5.4 and 3.4.7 now available (from MariaDB Corporation Blog)

The open way of Percona Search for MongoDB (from Percona Database Blog)

The Complete Agent State Stack: Memory, Files, and Serverless Database Persistence for AI Apps (from PingCAP Blog)

The DuckDB MySQL engine at 500 GB (from Percona Database Blog)

Retail Data Analytics: Ultimate 2026 Modern Retail Stack (from MinervaDB Blog)

MySQL Index Optimization: How to Speed Up Your Database Queries (from Webyog Blog)

Concurrency vs. Throughput: why more parallelism can make databases slower (from PlanetScale Blog)

Thursday, 06. August 2026

Why Attend TiDB SCaiLE 2026: Same Complexity, Different Clock Speeds (from PingCAP Blog)

Doltgres 1.0 (from DoltHub Blog)

Wednesday, 05. August 2026

Open Source Data Layers Will Win the AI Future (from PingCAP Blog)

Understanding MySQL Replication "fatal error 1236": "Replica has more GTIDs than the source has, using the source's SERVER_UUID" (from J-F Gagné's MySQL Blog)

How to Prepare a Database for a PCI-DSS Audit (2026) (from Mydbops Blog)

MySQL vs MariaDB in 2026: What Every DBA Needs to Know (from Webyog Blog)

Building on Open Ground: Ilia Kors on Why Aqtra Chose MariaDB as the Native Foundation of Its Enterprise Platform (from ODBMS.org)

ClusterControl 2.5.0 brings ClickHouse support to on-prem, cloud and hybrid environments (from Severalnines Blog)

Tuesday, 04. August 2026

MySQL 8.0.17 GTID Crash Safety Improvement (from J-F Gagné's MySQL Blog)

Everyone Records the MySQL Audit Log. Nobody Reads It. (from dbtrail Blog)

What Is Data Sovereignty and How Does MariaDB Protect Sovereignty in Cloud Databases? (from MariaDB Corporation Blog)

Hear Ye, Hear Ye: A Guide to MariaDB’s Governance Model (from MariaDB Foundation Blog)

How to Avoid Hidden Duplicate Key Errors in MySQL utf8mb4 Migrations (from Mydbops Blog)

Monthly Product Pulse: August 2026—Oracle Technical Resources (from Oracle ACE Program)

Migrating Real-Time Data into TiDB with Debezium CDC (from PingCAP Blog)

Recovery Optimization for Large MySQL Transactions (from Libing Song's Blog)

Where can you find MySQL from August through October 2026? (from ODBMS.org)

MySQL Backup Best Practices: A Complete Guide for DBAs in 2026 (from Webyog Blog)

Online Migration from Binlog to GTID Replication in MySQL 8.x (from Mydbops Blog)

Monday, 03. August 2026

Using CloudWatch Database Insights to troubleshoot query performance from calling services (from AWS Database Blog)

MySQL Development as it Happens – Innovating Together (from The Oracle MySQL Blog)

Where can you find MySQL from August through October 2026? (from The Oracle MySQL Blog)

Artificially Delayed Replication with PostgreSQL (from Shinguz's Blog)

No Index GroupBy Optimization (from DoltHub Blog)

CloudJump III Optimizing Cloud Databases for Tiered Storage(SIGMOD 2026) (from Chen Zongzhi's GitHub blog)

Sunday, 02. August 2026

Wirekite becomes Silver Sponsor of MariaDB Foundation (from MariaDB Foundation Blog)

Saturday, 01. August 2026

What’s New At Releem - June 2026 (from Releem Blog)

Friday, 31. July 2026

Upgrading Oracle Linux when running Oracle databases (from dbi Blog)

MySQL July 2026 GA Releases Now Available (from The Oracle MySQL Blog)

Stored Procedures memory consumption in Percona Server for MySQL (from Percona Database Blog)

How to Use the MySQL Slow Query Log to Find and Fix Performance Bottlenecks (from Webyog Blog)

Summary of MySQL Public Discussion #5: The Contributor Experience (from The Oracle MySQL Blog)

Massively parallel Postgres backups (from PlanetScale Blog)

Announcing ProxySQL 3.0.10, 3.1.10, and 4.0.10 (from ProxySQL Blog)

DataEngBytes Sydney Overview (from Ronald Bradford Blog)

Thursday, 30. July 2026

Percona Server for MongoDB 8.3 Technical Preview Is Now Available (from Percona Database Blog)

Vector Search Meets Distributed SQL: Why Agentic AI Does Not Need Another Database (from PingCAP Blog)

MySQL Best Practice : not using date / time types, nor ENUM (from J-F Gagné's MySQL Blog)

MariaDB again faces questions over Galera's open source future (from The Register)

Wednesday, 29. July 2026

MariaDB Java Connector 3.5.10, 3.4.4, 3.3.6, and 2.7.15 now available (from MariaDB Corporation Blog)

AI Chat With DBeaver Community Edition (from Dave's MySQL Stuff)

When Tungsten Replication "Stalls" but Nothing Has Failed: A MySQL Metadata-Query Story (from Continuent Blog)

COSCUP 2026: Planning your upgrade to MySQL 9.7 ^{(from Ronald Bradford Blog)}

Migrate RDS and Aurora logs to CloudWatch Infrequent Access ^{(from AWS Database Blog)}

From Replication to Resilience: Miguel Araújo on Building the Operational Layer of MySQL High Availability ^{(from ODBMS.org)}

MySQL Replication: How to Set It Up and Monitor It Effectively ^{(from Webyog Blog)}

Percona for MongoDB: RHEL 10, Its Derivatives, and Debian 13 – On Both x86_64 and ARM ^{(from Percona Database Blog)}

Amazon RDS for MariaDB now supports MariaDB 12.3 ^{(from AWS What's New)}

How to set up automated database failover testing ^{(from Mydbops Blog)}

Making the PostgreSQL Documentation Even Better ^{(from Shinguz's Blog)}

The dangers of Postgres subtransactions ^{(from PlanetScale Blog)}

MariaDB Foundation is pleased to welcome Auree as a Silver Sponsor. ^{(from MariaDB Foundation Blog)}

Why Agentic AI Architecture Needs a Database, Not Just a Vector Store ^{(from PingCAP Blog)}

Teaching MariaDB About Your Domain ^{(from lefred's blog)}

MySQL 9.7 LTS: Troubleshooting Replication Lag Using New Metrics ^{(from Mydbops Blog)}

MariaDB 12.3 LTS: Advances and Building Fault-Tolerant MariaDB Infrastructure at Internet Scale ^{(from MinervaDB Blog)}

MySQL and MariaDB High Availability vs. Disaster Recovery: What’s the Difference (and Why It Matters) ^{(from Continuent Blog)}

MariaDB Node.js Connector 3.5.4 and 3.4.7 now available ^{(from MariaDB Corporation Blog)}

The open way of Percona Search for MongoDB ^{(from Percona Database Blog)}

The Complete Agent State Stack: Memory, Files, and Serverless Database Persistence for AI Apps ^{(from PingCAP Blog)}

The DuckDB MySQL engine at 500 GB ^{(from Percona Database Blog)}

Retail Data Analytics: Ultimate 2026 Modern Retail Stack ^{(from MinervaDB Blog)}

MySQL Index Optimization: How to Speed Up Your Database Queries ^{(from Webyog Blog)}

Concurrency vs. Throughput: why more parallelism can make databases slower ^{(from PlanetScale Blog)}

Why Attend TiDB SCaiLE 2026: Same Complexity, Different Clock Speeds ^{(from PingCAP Blog)}

Doltgres 1.0 ^{(from DoltHub Blog)}

Open Source Data Layers Will Win the AI Future ^{(from PingCAP Blog)}

Understanding MySQL Replication "fatal error 1236": "Replica has more GTIDs than the source has, using the source's SERVER_UUID" ^{(from J-F Gagné's MySQL Blog)}

How to Prepare a Database for a PCI-DSS Audit (2026) ^{(from Mydbops Blog)}

MySQL vs MariaDB in 2026: What Every DBA Needs to Know ^{(from Webyog Blog)}

Building on Open Ground: Ilia Kors on Why Aqtra Chose MariaDB as the Native Foundation of Its Enterprise Platform ^{(from ODBMS.org)}

ClusterControl 2.5.0 brings ClickHouse support to on-prem, cloud and hybrid environments ^{(from Severalnines Blog)}

MySQL 8.0.17 GTID Crash Safety Improvement ^{(from J-F Gagné's MySQL Blog)}

Everyone Records the MySQL Audit Log. Nobody Reads It. ^{(from dbtrail Blog)}

What Is Data Sovereignty and How Does MariaDB Protect Sovereignty in Cloud Databases? ^{(from MariaDB Corporation Blog)}

Hear Ye, Hear Ye: A Guide to MariaDB’s Governance Model ^{(from MariaDB Foundation Blog)}

How to Avoid Hidden Duplicate Key Errors in MySQL utf8mb4 Migrations ^{(from Mydbops Blog)}

Monthly Product Pulse: August 2026—Oracle Technical Resources ^{(from Oracle ACE Program)}

Migrating Real-Time Data into TiDB with Debezium CDC ^{(from PingCAP Blog)}

Recovery Optimization for Large MySQL Transactions ^{(from Libing Song's Blog)}

Where can you find MySQL from August through October 2026? ^{(from ODBMS.org)}

MySQL Backup Best Practices: A Complete Guide for DBAs in 2026 ^{(from Webyog Blog)}

Online Migration from Binlog to GTID Replication in MySQL 8.x ^{(from Mydbops Blog)}

Using CloudWatch Database Insights to troubleshoot query performance from calling services ^{(from AWS Database Blog)}

MySQL Development as it Happens – Innovating Together ^{(from The Oracle MySQL Blog)}

Where can you find MySQL from August through October 2026? ^{(from The Oracle MySQL Blog)}

Artificially Delayed Replication with PostgreSQL ^{(from Shinguz's Blog)}

No Index GroupBy Optimization ^{(from DoltHub Blog)}

CloudJump III Optimizing Cloud Databases for Tiered Storage(SIGMOD 2026) ^{(from Chen Zongzhi's GitHub blog)}

Wirekite becomes Silver Sponsor of MariaDB Foundation ^{(from MariaDB Foundation Blog)}

What’s New At Releem - June 2026 ^{(from Releem Blog)}

Upgrading Oracle Linux when running Oracle databases ^{(from dbi Blog)}

MySQL July 2026 GA Releases Now Available ^{(from The Oracle MySQL Blog)}

Stored Procedures memory consumption in Percona Server for MySQL ^{(from Percona Database Blog)}

How to Use the MySQL Slow Query Log to Find and Fix Performance Bottlenecks ^{(from Webyog Blog)}

Summary of MySQL Public Discussion #5: The Contributor Experience ^{(from The Oracle MySQL Blog)}

Massively parallel Postgres backups ^{(from PlanetScale Blog)}

Announcing ProxySQL 3.0.10, 3.1.10, and 4.0.10 ^{(from ProxySQL Blog)}

DataEngBytes Sydney Overview ^{(from Ronald Bradford Blog)}

Percona Server for MongoDB 8.3 Technical Preview Is Now Available ^{(from Percona Database Blog)}

Vector Search Meets Distributed SQL: Why Agentic AI Does Not Need Another Database ^{(from PingCAP Blog)}

MySQL Best Practice : not using date / time types, nor ENUM ^{(from J-F Gagné's MySQL Blog)}

MariaDB again faces questions over Galera's open source future ^{(from The Register)}

MariaDB Java Connector 3.5.10, 3.4.4, 3.3.6, and 2.7.15 now available ^{(from MariaDB Corporation Blog)}

AI Chat With DBeaver Community Edition ^{(from Dave's MySQL Stuff)}

When Tungsten Replication "Stalls" but Nothing Has Failed: A MySQL Metadata-Query Story ^{(from Continuent Blog)}

MySQL Performance Tuning: 8 Proven Techniques for Faster Queries ^{(from Webyog Blog)}

After rewriting SQLite in Rust, Turso turns its sights on Postgres ^{(from The Register)}

From a Production Problem to MariaDB: Headout’s Open-Source Contribution Journey ^{(from MariaDB Foundation Blog)}

MariaDB 12.3: Faster Vector Search with Matryoshka Optimization ^{(from MariaDB Corporation Blog)}

Post-Quantum Cryptography support in MySQL ^{(from The Oracle MySQL Blog)}

Backups Using the MySQL Clone Operation ^{(from Shinguz's Blog)}

TiDB Log Compaction: Faster Point-in-Time Recovery for Large Clusters ^{(from PingCAP Blog)}

MySQL 8.0 to 8.4 upgrade on RDS: how to prove your data survived ^{(from dbtrail Blog)}

Migrate self-managed PostgreSQL to Amazon RDS using the RDS console ^{(from AWS Database Blog)}

Adobe Commerce Chooses MariaDB as Its Default Database Platform ^{(from MariaDB Foundation Blog)}

ScalaHosting Becomes a Gold Sponsor of MariaDB Foundation ^{(from MariaDB Foundation Blog)}

TLS Certificate Pinning and Best Practices in Azure Database for MySQL ^{(from Azure for MySQL Blog)}

Introducing 🍃MClusterAdmin: A Lightweight GUI Tool for MongoDB DBAs ^{(from Percona Community Blog)}

MITRE ATLAS - A 2025 Review ^{(from Ronald Bradford Blog)}

MariaDB Performance Monitoring: 20 Essential Metrics Every DBA Should Track for Troubleshooting ^{(from MinervaDB Blog)}

The Queen and the “Half That Wasn’t Told” ^{(from MariaDB Foundation Blog)}