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Community Spotlight: Slava Rozhnev and SQLtest.online ^{(from MariaDB Foundation Blog)}

pOpen source runs on people. Not only the engineers who commit code, but everyone who builds tools, answers questions, writes tutorials and shows up when help is needed. Slava Rozhnev, creator of SQLtest.online, is one of those people for MariaDB. He has been creating SQL quizzes with the MariaDB Foundation for a while now, and […]/p pCommunity Spotlight: Slava Rozhnev and SQLtest.online appe [...]

Published Monday, 12. October 2026 18:16 • 3 hours ago

Migrations to MariaDB from MySQL Now Easier Than Ever: Open Source MariaDB Migrator Tool Reaches GA ^{(from MariaDB Corporation Blog)}

In July we introduced MariaDB Migrator as a beta: four migration modes, a read-only Assess and Plan phase, and a […] [...]

Published Monday, 12. October 2026 16:51 • 5 hours ago

Automated blocking and query alerts for Amazon RDS for SQL Server ^{(from AWS Database Blog)}

Learn how to build automated email alerts for blocking chains and long-running queries on Amazon RDS for SQL Server. This serverless solution uses AWS Lambda, Amazon CloudWatch, and Amazon SES to detect blocking, identify the root blocker, and send HTML email alerts for approximately $2.57 per month. [...]

Published Monday, 12. October 2026 16:06 • 5 hours ago

Thread Pool in Percona Server and MySQL (Part 2) ^{(from Percona Database Blog)}

pThread Pool in Percona Server and MySQL (Part 2) The previous Part 1 focused on explaining the idea of thread pool, configuration options and analysis of thread pool efficiency in Percona Server for MySQL 9.7.1-1 against the base line, which is the same server without thread pooling. We recommend reading the post with Part 1 … Continued/p pThe post Thread Pool in Percona Server and MySQL (Pa [...]

Published Monday, 12. October 2026 11:14 • 10 hours ago

FOSS 2026 conference in Chernihiv: how it went ^{(from Percona Community Blog)}

On October 1-2, Chernihiv Polytechnic National University held the II International scientific and practical conference “Free/Open Source Software in Education, Science & Business”. The conference was online and free for everyone. The idea is to bring together people from universities, from industry and from open source communities and talk about how free software is used in education, science and [...]

Published Monday, 12. October 2026 10:00 • 12 hours ago

Meet MySQL 26.7: A New Versioning Era Begins ^{(from Percona Database Blog)}

pOver the period, we have witnessed how MySQL versioning evolved from 8.0 to 9.7 LTS, and now it has entered a new era: a calendar-based model. Let’s first take a brief look at how MySQL versioning has evolved over time. Phase 1 – MySQL 8.0 (2018–2026) used a traditional single-track release model, with all new … Continued/p pThe post Meet MySQL 26.7: A New Versioning Era Begins appeare [...]

Published Monday, 12. October 2026 04:05 • 17 hours ago

Docker DBA Lab ^{(from Percona Community Blog)}

Building a Database DBA Lab with Docker, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and Percona Monitoring and Management How I built a local database playground, learned a few lessons the hard way, and created a practical command reference along the way. [...]

Published Monday, 12. October 2026 00:00 • 22 hours ago

Six connections and a long queue: how a TLS-inspecting proxy quietly turned HTTP/2 into HTTP/1.1 ^{(from Ronald Bradford Blog)}

I recently tracked down a performance problem that turned out not to be in the application, the servers, or the CDN. A corporate TLS-inspecting proxy sat between the users and the site. [...]

Published Monday, 12. October 2026 00:00 • 22 hours ago

In MariaDB 13.0, new-style optimizer hints go beyond MySQL’s ^{(from Sergei Petrunia's blog)}

Short MariaDB 13.0 is now stable. In this release, MariaDB’s support for query optimizer hints reaches maturity and is ready for real-world use. In order to get here, we’ve extended MySQL’s hint syntax. The most visible change is that the QB_NAME hint now supports “path-based” addressing of query blocks. We’ve discovered we were not the […] [...]

Published Saturday, 10. October 2026 09:31 • 3 days ago

MySQL Workbench 26.7 ^{(from Dave's MySQL Stuff)}

p The old MySQL Workbench was 'retired' in January. The latest was recent released without a lot of fanfare. The new version is not an evolution of the old and, in some ways, is lacking features like relationship maps and reverse engineering capabilities. Now server versions 8.0 and earlier may work, but are not supported./p♦The opening screen of the newest MySQL WorkbenchpNew Look/ppThe new v [...]

Published Friday, 09. October 2026 16:05 • 3 days ago

Large TPC-C Analysis with MySQL v26.7.0 on InnoDB and TidesDB ^{(from TidesDB Blog)}

TPC-C analysis using HammerDB on 4000 warehouses and VU sweep from 4 to 1024 on MySQL v26.7.0 on InnoDB and TidesDB. [...]

Published Friday, 09. October 2026 13:51 • 3 days ago

PGO or not PGO this is the dilemma. Step 3 ^{(from Percona Database Blog)}

pStep 3: Why my sysbench-trained build loses and how to do it right. Given the topic complexity and the length of this article I have split it in 3 three different blog-post: What is PGO How PGO it works Why my sysbench-trained build loses and how to do it right. Three compounding reasons: Uncovered code … Continued/p pThe post PGO or not PGO this is the dilemma. Step 3 appeared first on Perc [...]

Published Friday, 09. October 2026 11:47 • 3 days ago

PGO or not PGO this is the dilemma. Step 2 ^{(from Percona Database Blog)}

pStep 2: How it works Given the topic complexity and the length of this article I have split it in 3 three different blog-post: What is PGO How PGO it works Why my sysbench-trained build loses and how to do it right. How PGO works: PGO is a two-pass build. First pass compiles with instrumentation … Continued/p pThe post PGO or not PGO this is the dilemma. Step 2 appeared first on Percona./p [...]

Published Friday, 09. October 2026 11:47 • 3 days ago

PGO or not PGO this is the dilemma. Step 1 ^{(from Percona Database Blog)}

pGiven the topic complexity and the length of this article I have split it in 3 three different blog-post: What is PGO How PGO it works Why my sysbench-trained build loses and how to do it right. Step 1: What is PGO PGO (Profile-Guided Optimization) is a two-pass compilation technique. First, we build the program … Continued/p pThe post PGO or not PGO this is the dilemma. Step 1 appeared fir [...]

Published Friday, 09. October 2026 11:47 • 3 days ago

Welcome to PGConf.EU Valencia! ^{(from Percona Community Blog)}

PGConf.EU is right around the corner! This year, we’re heading to Valencia for three days of talks on October 20-22, followed by the Community Events Day on Friday, October 23. [...]

Published Friday, 09. October 2026 07:00 • 4 days ago

Keys and Values Don't Always Belong Together ^{(from TidesDB Blog)}

Why an LSM tree should keep large values out of compaction, how TidesDB's value log does it, and what it costs. [...]

Published Friday, 09. October 2026 01:22 • 4 days ago

Step by Step: ProxySQL HA with BGP ECMP Anycast ^{(from Percona Community Blog)}

In our previous blog post ProxySQL HA with BGP ECMP Anycast, we established why we would want to use BGP ECMP as a strategy for making our ProxySQL cluster highly available. Now let’s look at how to implement it technically. [...]

Published Thursday, 08. October 2026 18:50 • 4 days ago

Your Galera cluster’s hardest problem was never the replication library ^{(from Percona Database Blog)}

pAsk anyone who runs a multi-node MySQL Galera Cluster in production about their worst night. Almost nobody says write-set replication was wrong. They say something closer to this: “All queries piling up… no error messages in logs.” Twenty minutes of downtime, ended only when a human picked a node to kill. (codership-team) Or the flow-control … Continued/p pThe post Your Galera cl [...]

Published Thursday, 08. October 2026 16:07 • 4 days ago

Building a Public Performance Change Detection Library for MariaDB ^{(from MariaDB Foundation Blog)}

pPerformance engineering inside a database project is usually private. Teams run internal workloads, investigate changes, fix issues, and move on. The knowledge stays inside the company, and the outside world only sees a benchmark graph or a release note. I know this pattern well — I spent more than twenty‑six years doing this work for […]/p pBuilding a Public Performance Change Detection Lib [...]

Published Thursday, 08. October 2026 14:28 • 4 days ago

Open Source milestone – MariaDB’sEcosystem hub hits 200 solutions ^{(from MariaDB Foundation Blog)}

pNew ‘App store of open source’ is one stop shop serving the fast-growing MariaDB community’s needs for applications, developer tools, cloud platforms and projects. The MariaDB Foundation today announces the MariaDB Server Ecosystem Hub has exceeded 200 entries, just six months after launch. The Hub is a curated, open directory of MariaDB Server approved products, […]/p pOpe [...]

Published Thursday, 08. October 2026 10:35 • 4 days ago

Redis by proxy: Percona targets the last major hurdle to Valkey adoption ^{(from The New Stack)}

♦pWhen Redis changed its licensing in 2024, replacing its permissive BSD license with proprietary, source-available alternatives, it prompted a major/p pThe post Redis by proxy: Percona targets the last major hurdle to Valkey adoption appeared first on The New Stack./p [...]

Published Thursday, 08. October 2026 06:54 • 5 days ago

Time Travel for MySQL: Recovering One Row Shouldn't Take All Night ^{(from OurSQL Foundation Blog)}

pI have been working with databases for almost 20 years, ten of them at Percona. To be honest, a lot of that time was not really “working” with databases. It was suffering with them. Especially in one moment: when somebody comes to you and says, “I think I deleted something I should not.”/p pYou know this moment. An codeUPDATE/code with the wrong codeWHERE/code. A codeDELETE [...]

Published Thursday, 08. October 2026 00:00 • 5 days ago

Adobe Commerce and MariaDB: How the Database Shift Supports Peak Trading and Agentic AI ^{(from MariaDB Corporation Blog)}

eCommerce is seasonal, and as high-volume peak trading windows, major marketing campaigns, and seasonal demand surges approach, eCommerce teams worldwide […] [...]

Published Wednesday, 07. October 2026 16:20 • 5 days ago

Using TidesDB as a Cache ^{(from TidesDB Blog)}

Use TidesDB or TideSQL in MySQL and MariaDB as a fast TTL cache you can index, join and query with SQL. [...]

Published Wednesday, 07. October 2026 12:21 • 5 days ago

Laravel 13 now supports MariaDB Vector natively ^{(from MariaDB Foundation Blog)}

pIf your Laravel application runs on MariaDB, you can add semantic search to it without a second database, an external vector service or an extra package. Since Laravel 13.28, vector columns, vector indexes and similarity queries work on MariaDB out of the box. A large part of that work came from community contributors, including Mohamed […]/p pLaravel 13 now supports MariaDB Vector natively [...]

Published Wednesday, 07. October 2026 06:52 • 6 days ago

Making Sense of MySQL Telemetry Metrics ^{(from The Oracle MySQL Blog)}

In the first post in this series, we configured MySQL Telemetry to export OpenTelemetry metrics to Prometheus. Once the metrics arrive, the more important question is how a DBA should read them. This post is not a catalogue of every metric or meter. Its purpose is to build a practical way of thinking: start with […] [...]

Published Wednesday, 07. October 2026 03:04 • 6 days ago

What today's software owes to Bronze Age clocks ^{(from PlanetScale Blog)}

Admission controls in software determine what does or doesn't happen next, and the most common implementation has ancient roots. [...]

Published Wednesday, 07. October 2026 00:00 • 6 days ago

Solving SIEM Data Gravity: How to Cut Ingest Costs Without Losing a Single Security Event ^{(from MariaDB Corporation Blog)}

Your SIEM bill climbs every year — but most of what you pay to ingest and index is repetitive, benign […] [...]

Published Tuesday, 06. October 2026 20:30 • 6 days ago

Why MySQL Bug Fixes Can Differ Across LTS Releases ^{(from The Oracle MySQL Blog)}

At a recent discussion with MySQL ACEs and Rockstars, we were asked a fair question: If a bug is fixed in one supported MySQL LTS series, why isn’t it always fixed in another? A quick refresher: LTS means Long-Term Support. Within an LTS series, MySQL aims to keep the feature set and data format stable […] [...]

Published Tuesday, 06. October 2026 19:54 • 6 days ago

Beyond synthetic testing: Capturing and replaying real database workloads at Airbnb ^{(from Airbnb Tech Blog)}

How we capture real production database traffic at Airbnb and replay it offline to load-test, plan capacity, and de-risk upgrades. [...]

Published Tuesday, 06. October 2026 17:23 • 6 days ago

Inside the Mind of a MySQL Rockstar: Matthias Crauwels on Community, Culture, and Open Source First ^{(from ODBMS.org)}

Q1. You moved from managing databases at a Belgian university to becoming a dedicated MySQL DBA, then to consulting at Pythian, and now to supporting large enterprise customers running MySQL at scale at PlanetScale.... [...]

Published Tuesday, 06. October 2026 17:19 • 6 days ago

DBTrail: Analytical Reports on Your MySQL Data, Without Running Them on MySQL – Part 1 ^{(from Percona Database Blog)}

pMySQL is very good at serving application workloads, but things get more complicated when somebody decides to run a large report on the same server. A scan can push hot pages out of the buffer pool. A long-running read can hold back purge. A GROUP BY over millions of rows can start writing temporary tables … Continued/p pThe post DBTrail: Analytical Reports on Your MySQL Data, Without Runnin [...]

Published Tuesday, 06. October 2026 16:28 • 6 days ago

Why Open Source Still Matters When Agents Write the Code ^{(from PingCAP Blog)}

pMaintainers of well-known open source projects are dealing with a new kind of inbox. Pull requests still arrive, often in higher volume than ever, and many are clean, well-formatted, and plausible on first read. What changed is that one person can now produce a hundred of them in an afternoon, and the maintainer still has […]/p pThe post Why Open Source Still Matters When Agents Write the Co [...]

Published Tuesday, 06. October 2026 15:45 • 6 days ago

Percona ClusterSync for MongoDB 1.0.0 is Generally Available ^{(from Percona Database Blog)}

pOn behalf of the entire product and engineering team, I’m pleased to announce that Percona ClusterSync for MongoDB (PCSM) 1.0.0 is now generally available with all its features inside. It is production-ready, fully supported, and already proven on real multi-terabyte migrations. If you want to move off MongoDB Atlas, MongoDB Enterprise, or MongoDB Community to … Continued/p pThe post Percona [...]

Published Tuesday, 06. October 2026 14:16 • 6 days ago

Village News: MySQL News + Events (6 October 2026) ^{(from VillageSQL)}

pWelcome back to Village News, our curated roundup of MySQL and database news./p pIf you want to get these updates, just subscribe to the blog./p pEnjoy!/p MySQL News pNote: Aggregated MySQL news can be found at Planet for MySQL Community and Planet MySQL (Oracle curated)/p pThread Pool in Percona Server/p [...]

Published Tuesday, 06. October 2026 13:00 • 6 days ago

What Is Running on My MongoDB Right Now? Real-Time Analytics in PMM ^{(from Percona Database Blog)}

pThe Problem The application is slow, the Slack channel is on fire, and somebody asks the oldest question in our job: What is running on the database right now? Query Analytics (QAN) in PMM is great for the history. It shows which queries used the most time in the last hour or the last 12 … Continued/p pThe post What Is Running on My MongoDB Right Now? Real-Time Analytics in PMM appeared firs [...]

Published Tuesday, 06. October 2026 12:51 • 6 days ago

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

pMariaDB Foundation welcomes Frappe as a Silver Sponsor. Frappe builds open-source software for running organisations, including ERPNext, Frappe HR and Frappe CRM. Its applications are built on Frappe Framework, where MariaDB is the default database. That makes MariaDB part of the infrastructure behind the work Frappe users do every day, from managing finances and inventory […]/p pFrappe join [...]

Published Tuesday, 06. October 2026 05:54 • 7 days ago

Movie Finder: semantic search over 1M films, inside MySQL ^{(from AskDba)}

p♦/pType “a heist that goes wrong in a snowy town” and get back real films, with posters, in a few milliseconds. The vector search behind it runs inside MySQL, with no separate vector database. Movie Finder is the new demo app that ships with MyVector. It searches up to 1,035,695 TMDB movies by meaning, not […] [...]

Published Monday, 05. October 2026 20:30 • 7 days ago

MariaDB Foundation Adds PostgreSQL to Its Engine‑Agnostic Testing Framework (TAF). ^{(from MariaDB Foundation Blog)}

pThe Test Automation Framework (TAF) was designed so that database makers themselves could create a plugin and integrate their database engine directly into the framework. TAF provides the structure — lifecycle management, workload execution, profiling, reporting, and reproducible properties files — and each database plugin supplies the engine‑specific logic. The first two plugins added to [… [...]

Published Monday, 05. October 2026 20:18 • 7 days ago

AWS Advanced Ruby Driver Wrapper is generally available ^{(from AWS What's New)}

pThe Amazon Web Services (AWS) Advanced Ruby Driver Wrapper is now generally available for use with Amazon RDS and Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL and MySQL-compatible databases. This advanced database driver reduces RDS Blue/Green switchover, Aurora Global database switchover and database failover times, improving application availability. Additionally, it supports multiple authentication mechanisms for [...]

Published Monday, 05. October 2026 17:00 • 7 days 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++ 1.1.9 and 1.0.8 and MariaDB Connector/ODBC 3.2.10 and 3.1.24. […] [...]

Published Monday, 05. October 2026 16:40 • 7 days ago

PGO or not PGO this is the dilemma. Step 3 ^{(from TusaCentral - MySQL Blogs)}

Step 3: Why my sysbench-trained build loses and how to do it right.br pGiven the topic complexity and the length of this article I have split it in 3 three different blog-post:/p ol liWhat is PGO/li liHow PGO it works/li liWhy my sysbench-trained build loses and how to do it right./li /ol Three compounding reasons: ol liUncovered code gets pessimized. brSysbench-tpcc touches a narrow slice of mysql [...]

Published Monday, 05. October 2026 16:15 • 7 days ago

PGO or not PGO this is the dilemma. Step 2 ^{(from TusaCentral - MySQL Blogs)}

Step 2: How it works pGiven the topic complexity and the length of this article I have split it in 3 three different blog-post:/p ol liWhat is PGO/li liHow PGO it works/li liWhy my sysbench-trained build loses and how to do it right./li /ol pHow PGO works: PGO is a two-pass build. First pass compiles with instrumentation (-fprofile-generate): every basic block and branch gets a counter. brYou run a [...]

Published Monday, 05. October 2026 16:13 • 7 days ago

PGO or not PGO this is the dilemma. Step 1 ^{(from TusaCentral - MySQL Blogs)}

pGiven the topic complexity and the length of this article I have split it in 3 three different blog-post:/p ol liWhat is PGO/li liHow PGO it works/li liWhy my sysbench-trained build loses and how to do it right./li /ol Step 1: What is PGO pPGO (Profile-Guided Optimization) is a two-pass compilation technique. /p pFirst, we build the program with instrumentation that adds counters to every bra [...]

Published Monday, 05. October 2026 16:07 • 7 days ago

Migrating a 500 GB Production MariaDB Database from Amazon RDS to EC2, With a Rollback Path ^{(from MariaDB Foundation Blog)}

pI always enjoy real production stories where MariaDB is used in demanding environments and the people involved are willing to share the architecture, the challenges, and the decisions made along the way. Pradip Shah from luroConnect recently documented how his team migrated a 500+ GB production MariaDB database from Amazon RDS to self-managed MariaDB on […]/p pMigrating a 500 GB Production M [...]

Published Monday, 05. October 2026 10:52 • 7 days ago

Thread Pool in Percona Server and MySQL (Part 1) ^{(from Percona Database Blog)}

pThread Pool in Percona Server and MySQL (Part 1) A new version of Community MySQL Server July release contains two versions 26.7.0 and 9.7.2. It is an important milestone because it finally brings a Thread Pooling feature to the community. The official MySQL Server Thread Pool plugin existed for a long time, but was available … Continued/p pThe post Thread Pool in Percona Server and MySQL (P [...]

Published Monday, 05. October 2026 10:48 • 7 days ago

TidesDB now available for MySQL v9, v26 ^{(from TidesDB Blog)}

TidesDB becomes available under project TideSQL for MySQL. [...]

Published Monday, 05. October 2026 03:39 • 8 days ago

Finding Bugs Using Join Implication Reasoning ^{(from DoltHub Blog)}

We review "Detecting Join Bugs in Database Engines via Join Implication Reasoning," a research paper from the TEST Lab at NUS that tests the correctness of join queries in databases by generating equivalent join queries. [...]

Published Monday, 05. October 2026 00:00 • 8 days ago

MariaDB Foundation: Auto‑Generated User Properties in TAF 4.0 — The Piece for Ensuring Full Test Reproduction ^{(from MariaDB Foundation Blog)}

pTAF’s reproducibility story just gained its most important upgrade: every test case now produces a fully resolved, auto‑generated user properties file. This file captures exactly what the run used — not what the user intended, not what was passed in, but the final, authoritative configuration TAF executed. It removes ambiguity, eliminates hidden dependencies, and makes […]/p pMariaDB Foundat [...]

Published Friday, 02. October 2026 15:28 • 10 days ago

When AI Finds the Bugs We Missed: A Very Busy Year for MariaDB Security ^{(from MariaDB Foundation Blog)}

pYou may have noticed that some recent MariaDB Server releases arrived a little later than expected. Sorry about that! But there is a good reason for it. Over the last months, the MariaDB project has experienced something we had never seen before: a very large increase in security reports. And when I say large, look […]/p pWhen AI Finds the Bugs We Missed: A Very Busy Year for MariaDB Securit [...]

Published Friday, 02. October 2026 15:03 • 10 days ago

K3s vs. K8s: When lightweight Kubernetes distros win (and when they don’t) ^{(from The New Stack)}

♦pThe Kubernetes ecosystem has a complexity problem, and most teams already know it. Standard Kubernetes (K8s) is extraordinarily powerful, but/p pThe post K3s vs. K8s: When lightweight Kubernetes distros win (and when they don’t) appeared first on The New Stack./p [...]

Published Friday, 02. October 2026 13:00 • 10 days ago

Benchmark Analysis with HammerDB TPROC-C(TPC-C) on TideSQL v5.1.0, InnoDB in MariaDB v11.4.13 ^{(from TidesDB Blog)}

Large server VU sweep on 3000 warehouses using HammerDB 6 on MariaDB v11.4.13 with engines InnoDB and TideSQL (TidesDB). [...]

Published Friday, 02. October 2026 10:50 • 10 days ago

MySQL Community Meetups Fall 2026 ^{(from The Oracle MySQL Blog)}

In our recent Where can you find MySQL from August through October 2026?, we shared a broad view of MySQL conferences, community activities, and user group meetups. Since then, community gatherings in Denver, Taipei, and Nashville have brought MySQL users, developers, and contributors together for technical discussion and local connection. We are continuing that momentum […] [...]

Published Friday, 02. October 2026 10:22 • 10 days ago

Automated Database Failover: Why Homegrown High Availability Struggles At Scale ^{(from Severalnines Blog)}

pI’ve encountered DBAs and ops engineers who shared war stories of running production long before automation and modern tooling went mainstream. Experiencing sudden primary faults during sleeping hours, getting paged, logging in to squint over trace logs that show replication lag on all replicas and working out which one is furthest ahead, promoting it, editing […]/p pThe post Automated [...]

Published Friday, 02. October 2026 07:49 • 11 days ago

How easy is it to use the VillageSQL MCP extension? ^{(from Ronald Bradford Blog)}

VillageSQL published Access MySQL over MCP with vsql-mcp . The extension serves the Model Context Protocol from inside the database, so an agent talks to MySQL over Streamable HTTP without a sidecar holding a credential. [...]

Published Friday, 02. October 2026 00:00 • 11 days ago

The Database Is the Product: What Breaks When Memory Devices Scale ^{(from PingCAP Blog)}

pEditor’s note: This post originally appeared on The New Stack and is republished with permission. The original version is available here. Imagine you just finished a two-hour meeting. You were wearing a small AI work companion that promised to capture the conversation, structure it, and let you ask questions about it later. Two hours after the […]/p pThe post The Database Is the Product: Wha [...]

Published Thursday, 01. October 2026 20:06 • 11 days ago

MariaDB Foundation: TAF Now Supports Embedded Database Configuration in User Properties ^{(from MariaDB Foundation Blog)}

pTAF: One File to Rule Them All In a one‑on‑one review of TAF with Monty Widenius, the creator of MySQL and MariaDB, he looked at me and said: “I want everything in one user file.” It was simple, direct, and completely right direction. TAF’s configuration model had inherited its design from older frameworks — a […]/p pMariaDB Foundation: TAF Now Supports Embedded Database Configuration in Use [...]

Published Thursday, 01. October 2026 19:25 • 11 days ago

MariaDB Foundation Newsletter – October 2026 ^{(from MariaDB Foundation Blog)}

pSeptember showed what an extensible MariaDB looks like in practice. A Magento report ran 63 times faster once its tables moved to the DuckDB storage engine, which now ships with MariaDB 13.0, Stable since 17 September. TideSQL became far easier to install, the community voted on writing plugins beyond C++, and the Adoption Index is […]/p pMariaDB Foundation Newsletter – October 2026 appeared [...]

Published Thursday, 01. October 2026 17:25 • 11 days ago

Tuning Percona ClusterSync for MongoDB Performance ^{(from Percona Database Blog)}

pPercona ClusterSync for MongoDB (PCSM) synchronizes data from a source MongoDB cluster (including Atlas) to a target MongoDB cluster in two stages. It first creates a consistent starting point and clones the existing collections and indexes. At the same time, it captures source changes through MongoDB change streams. Once the initial copy is complete, PCSM … Continued/p pThe post Tuning Perc [...]

Published Thursday, 01. October 2026 16:36 • 11 days ago

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

pWelcome back to Village News, our curated roundup of MySQL and database news./p pIf you want to get these updates, just subscribe to the blog./p pEnjoy!/p MySQL News pNote: Aggregated MySQL news can be found at Planet for MySQL Community and Planet MySQL (Oracle curated)/p pMySQL 26.10.0 Early/p [...]

Published Thursday, 01. October 2026 13:00 • 11 days ago

AI agents speed up development — data access slows them down ^{(from The New Stack)}

♦pBuilding the app was never the hard part. Now, with AI agents assisting with development, teams complete applications and internal/p pThe post AI agents speed up development — data access slows them down appeared first on The New Stack./p [...]

Published Thursday, 01. October 2026 11:00 • 11 days ago

Influence Is Not Ownership: Anna Widenius and Kaj Arnö on Governance, Open Source, and the Future of MariaDB ^{(from ODBMS Industry Watch)}

“The purpose of governance is to make clear where authority comes from, how decisions are made, and how other people can acquire responsibility and challenge decisions… Influence is not the same thing as personal ownership of the project.” — Anna Widenius, CEO, MariaDB Foundation Q1. Anna, you recently published what you called a “love letter” […] [...]

Published Thursday, 01. October 2026 08:45 • 12 days ago

Database Reliability Engineering: 6 Proven Steps MinervaDB Runs on Every Engine ^{(from MinervaDB Blog)}

How MinervaDB delivers database reliability engineering across PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, SQL Server, Oracle, Db2, MongoDB, ClickHouse, Redis, Amazon RDS, Aurora, Cloud SQL, AlloyDB and BigQuery. [...] [...]

Published Thursday, 01. October 2026 06:01 • 12 days ago

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

pMariaDB Foundation welcomes Elestio as a Silver Sponsor, supporting the open-source project behind its managed MariaDB offering.br Elestio provides managed MariaDB with automated backups, monitoring and updates, allowing users to choose their cloud provider, region and resources. … /p pContinue reading \"Elestio joins MariaDB Foundation as a Silver Sponsor\"/p pElestio joins MariaDB Foundati [...]

Published Thursday, 01. October 2026 04:05 • 12 days ago

Designing Neki for performance ^{(from PlanetScale Blog)}

How Neki only decodes the parts of a PostgreSQL result the router actually needs. [...]

Published Thursday, 01. October 2026 00:00 • 12 days ago

AWS and AMD bring 5th generation AMD EPYC processors to Amazon Aurora and Amazon RDS ^{(from AWS Database Blog)}

AWS today announced the general availability of AMD-based R8a and M8a database instances for Amazon Aurora and Amazon RDS, powered by 5th generation AMD EPYC processors. R8a is a memory-optimized instance family available on both Aurora and RDS. M8a is a general-purpose instance family available on RDS. [...]

Published Wednesday, 30. September 2026 22:06 • 12 days ago

Database Infrastructure Partner: 7 Proven Industry Lessons ^{(from MinervaDB Blog)}

Why BFSI, FinTech, retail, airlines, telecom and media, ISVs, government and SaaS companies choose MinervaDB as their database infrastructure partner across every major engine and cloud. [...] [...]

Published Wednesday, 30. September 2026 20:25 • 12 days ago

Amazon Aurora and RDS now support AMD-based R8a instances ^{(from AWS What's New)}

pAmazon Aurora and Amazon RDS now support R8a database instances powered by 5th generation AMD EPYC processors, expanding the choice available for your database workloads. Each vCPU in R8a database instances corresponds to a physical CPU core, which delivers consistent per-core performance. For workloads with high I/O requirements, R8a instances provide up to 75 Gbps of network bandwidth and 60 Gbp [...]

Published Wednesday, 30. September 2026 17:00 • 12 days ago

MariaDB Foundation: Why Test Case Tags Matter in TAF ^{(from MariaDB Foundation Blog)}

pIn performance testing, numbers alone rarely tell the full story.br A benchmark result without context is just a result floating in space disconnected from the intent, and the conditions that produced it. … /p pContinue reading \"MariaDB Foundation: Why Test Case Tags Matter in TAF\"/p pMariaDB Foundation: Why Test Case Tags Matter in TAF appeared first on MariaDB.org/p [...]

Published Wednesday, 30. September 2026 16:39 • 12 days ago

Amazon RDS for MySQL supports MySQL 26.7 in Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment ^{(from AWS What's New)}

pStarting today, Amazon RDS for MySQL 26.7 is available in the Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment, allowing you to evaluate the pre-release of MySQL 26.7 on Amazon RDS for MySQL./p pMySQL 26.7 is the first Innovation release to adopt the new YY.M (Year.Month) calendar versioning model. It includes bug fixes, security patches, and new features such as Change Stream Applier, a modular replicatio [...]

Published Wednesday, 30. September 2026 16:00 • 12 days ago

MySQL HeatWave Core Capabilities (September 2026) ^{(from MySQL expert Diary)}

pOCI Open Source Service Update – Sept. 2026br Explore how MySQL HeatWave on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure helps optimize, protect, and scale MySQL applications.br Covers Autopilot Indexing, high availability with automatic failover, managed read replicas, enterprise security, and fast DB system cloning for development, testing, and regional recovery./p The post MySQL HeatWave Core Capabilities (Sept [...]

Published Wednesday, 30. September 2026 14:28 • 12 days ago

Announcing the Public Preview of Reader Endpoint for Azure Database for MySQL ^{(from Azure for MySQL Blog)}

pWe are excited to announce the Public Preview of Reader Endpoint for Azure Database for MySQL./p pRead replicas help applications scale read-intensive workloads by moving read traffic away from the primary server. This can include traditional applications, analytics and reporting workloads, and AI-powered applications that retrieve structured context from MySQL. However, as the number of replicas [...]

Published Wednesday, 30. September 2026 13:21 • 12 days ago

Vector and Full-Text Search Explained: Why AI Agents Need Both ^{(from PingCAP Blog)}

pKey Takeaways Ask an AI support agent about error E-4012 and it may come back with a confident answer about E-4021. The embeddings for the two codes sit almost on top of each other, so the agent pulled the wrong runbook, and nothing in the logs says retrieval failed. Vector and full-text search are two […]/p pThe post Vector and Full-Text Search Explained: Why AI Agents Need Both appeared fi [...]

Published Wednesday, 30. September 2026 00:03 • 13 days ago

Newsletter #1: What Happened in September 2026 ^{(from OurSQL Foundation Blog)}

pFour months after launch, the OurSQL Foundation has run its first booth, opened its map of the MySQL ecosystem, and scheduled its first webinars. Here’s what happened, and three easy ways to be part of what comes next./p pNew here? Start with why we exist. Vadim Tkachenko explains why MySQL needs a vendor-neutral home, and why we see MySQL the way the world sees Linux — read the announcement [...]

Published Wednesday, 30. September 2026 00:00 • 13 days ago

MySQL BR Conf 2026 Slides: Managed ProxySQL in Your Own AWS Account ^{(from ProxySQL Blog)}

The final slides from René Cannaò and Alkin Tezuysal's session on ProxySQL.Cloud, BYOC architecture, configuration, and day-to-day operations. [...]

Published Wednesday, 30. September 2026 00:00 • 13 days ago

Nerdearla 2026 Slides: SQL Traffic Routing Without Breaking Consistency ^{(from ProxySQL Blog)}

Connection pooling, replica freshness, MySQL GTID routing, and the application contracts behind safe SQL traffic routing. [...]

Published Wednesday, 30. September 2026 00:00 • 13 days ago

MariaDB Connector/C 3.4.11, and 3.3.21 now available ^{(from MariaDB Corporation Blog)}

MariaDB is pleased to announce the immediate availability of MariaDB Connector/C 3.4.11, and 3.3.21. Download Now Release Notes and Changelogs […] [...]

Published Tuesday, 29. September 2026 18:25 • 13 days ago

Introducing the MySQL Analytical Replica (Parquet + DuckDB) ^{(from dbtrail Blog)}

pYour app asks about now. The business asks about the past, and those reports run on your production MySQL. DBTrail keeps a copy of your tables as Parquet files in a folder or an S3 bucket you own, follows every change through the binlog, updates the copy on the schedule you set, and lets you query it with DuckDB. Your MySQL never sees those queries. Open source, Apache 2.0./p pThe post Introducing [...]

Published Tuesday, 29. September 2026 16:57 • 13 days ago

Archiving Oracle databases with SIARD Suite ^{(from dbi Blog)}

pOne of our customers needed to archive a 4T Oracle database. Several options have been chosen, one of them being archiving the data to SIARD format using SIARD Suite from Swiss Federal Archives. This blog posts explains the basics: what SIARD Suite is, how it works, and examples in command line mode. Meeting SIARD Suite […]/p pL’article Archiving Oracle databases with SIARD Suite est apparu [...]

Published Tuesday, 29. September 2026 15:46 • 13 days ago

SQL Plan Binding in TiDB: Fix Plan Regressions Without App Changes ^{(from Mydbops Blog)}

Learn how SQL Plan Binding in TiDB locks in stable execution plans to resolve query regressions instantly without changing application source code. [...]

Published Tuesday, 29. September 2026 11:14 • 13 days ago

dbdeployer v2.4.2: Faster MariaDB Sandboxes, Better Cluster Checks, and Five Months of Progress ^{(from ProxySQL Blog)}

dbdeployer v2.4.2 fixes MariaDB deployment delays and Galera/PXC readiness checks. Catch up on MariaDB downloads, PostgreSQL improvements, and testing since April. [...]

Published Tuesday, 29. September 2026 00:00 • 14 days ago

ProxySQL at MySQL BR Conf 2026: Together in São Paulo ^{(from ProxySQL Blog)}

René Cannaò and Alkin Tezuysal presented managed ProxySQL in your own AWS account at MySQL BR Conf 2026 in São Paulo. [...]

Published Tuesday, 29. September 2026 00:00 • 14 days ago

ProxySQL at Nerdearla 2026: SQL Routing Meets a Wider Community ^{(from ProxySQL Blog)}

René Cannaò brought SQL traffic routing and consistency to Nerdearla in Buenos Aires, a free event spanning technology and open source. [...]

Published Tuesday, 29. September 2026 00:00 • 14 days ago

Resolving query plan regressions after a MySQL engine upgrade ^{(from AWS Database Blog)}

After a major or minor version upgrade on Amazon Aurora MySQL or Amazon RDS for MySQL, some queries regress because the optimizer's cost models, defaults, and execution strategies change. This post walks through a diagnostic workflow that traces each regression to the specific version change behind it and applies the right fix. [...]

Published Monday, 28. September 2026 17:22 • 14 days ago

When pt-online-schema-change “where” Meets Galera: Understanding Chunk Auto-Resize and Flow Control ^{(from Percona Database Blog)}

pPercona Toolkit’s pt-online-schema-change (pt-osc) has long been the preferred solution for performing online schema changes with minimal downtime. Its chunk-based copy algorithm is designed to adapt dynamically to the workload, making it suitable for very large tables in production environments. However, under specific conditions, one of its optimization mechanisms can become counterproduct [...]

Published Monday, 28. September 2026 13:56 • 14 days ago

MariaDB Foundation’s Test Automation Framework (TAF) 4.0 Release ^{(from MariaDB Foundation Blog)}

pMariaDB Foundation’s Performance Test Automation Framework (TAF) 4.0 Release represents the biggest changes to the framework since its creation.br This release reshapes how we organize, run, and report database workloads across MariaDB, MySQL, and now PostgreSQL. … /p pContinue reading \"MariaDB Foundation’s Test Automation Framework (TAF) 4.0 Release\"/p pMariaDB Foundation’s Test Aut [...]

Published Monday, 28. September 2026 12:50 • 14 days ago

Handling hot shards ^{(from PlanetScale Blog)}

What makes a good sharding strategy today might not work so well tomorrow. What happens when you have one tenant hitting your database orders of magnitude more than any other? Or product managers knocking down your door with new requirements? If you're already on Neki, fortunately these are issues we can solve. [...]

Published Monday, 28. September 2026 00:00 • 15 days ago

The FinTech Scalability Crisis: How Distributed SQL Unlocks Innovation with Zero Downtime Operations ^{(from PingCAP Blog)}

pWhen Plaid’s Amazon Aurora MySQL fleet faced a major-version upgrade, the estimate came back at six engineering months and tens of minutes of downtime. For a company whose APIs sit underneath thousands of financial apps, that is not a maintenance task. It is a product freeze. Plaid spent that effort moving to distributed SQL instead, […]/p pThe post The FinTech Scalability Crisis: How Distri [...]

Published Saturday, 26. September 2026 08:31 • 17 days ago

MyVector v1.26.9: Keeping Up With MySQL Innovation ^{(from AskDba)}

p♦/pMySQL 26.7 Innovation Support Lands September 22, 2026 · ⁠GitHub Release MySQL just changed the rules. With MySQL 26.7, Oracle has moved to a new calendar-based versioning model for Innovation releases. For MyVector, that means one thing: We need to keep up. MyVector v1.26.9 adds MySQL 26.7 Innovation support, but the more interesting story is […] [...]

Published Friday, 25. September 2026 13:36 • 17 days ago

Open FIPS Build, Vectors, and Binlog Server: Marco Tusa at Percona Live ^{(from Percona Community Blog)}

This post collects the main things Marco Tusa covered in his keynote at Percona Live 2026 in Amsterdam: where Percona stands on MySQL, which features landed in the server, and what holds the MySQL community together. [...]

Published Friday, 25. September 2026 12:00 • 17 days ago

MySQL 26.10.0 Early Access Is Here ^{(from The Oracle MySQL Blog)}

The MySQL 26.10.0 Early Access Release is now available, giving developers and database teams an early opportunity to preview, evaluate, and provide feedback on the next evolution of MySQL. Early Access releases are where curiosity becomes contribution. Whether you’re testing an application stack, validating upgrade plans, or simply eager to see what’s coming, this is […] [...]

Published Friday, 25. September 2026 11:58 • 17 days ago

Reduce MySQL Replication Lag in Multi-Region Deployments ^{(from Mydbops Blog)}

Cut cross-region MySQL replication lag from minutes to sub-second with GTID, WRITESET parallel apply, semi-sync timeouts and lag-aware ProxySQL routing. [...]

Published Friday, 25. September 2026 11:50 • 17 days ago

How to Audit Database Index Health in Production | Mydbops ^{(from Mydbops Blog)}

Audit index health across MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB and MariaDB: usage, redundancy, cardinality, bloat, EXPLAIN checks and compliance-ready change control. [...]

Published Friday, 25. September 2026 11:16 • 17 days ago

Database governance in the AI era: Framework, risks and best practices ^{(from Devart MySQL Tool Blog)}

pAI database governance can get overlooked when teams rush to connect AI tools to production data. IBM’s 2025 research found that 97% of organizations that reported a breach involving an AI model or application lacked proper AI access controls. The risk is easy to see. Give an AI agent too much access and it can […]/p pThe post Database governance in the AI era: Framework, risks and bes [...]

Published Friday, 25. September 2026 11:10 • 17 days ago

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

Since our last update, we’ve introduced All Recommendations: one view of recommendations across your database servers, grouped into Performance, Security, Availability, and Resource Usage. AI prioritizes recommendations by their expected impact on each server, helping you see what needs attention first. [...]

Published Friday, 25. September 2026 11:00 • 17 days ago

Vercel and TiDB Cloud Starter: The Full-Stack Playbook for AI Apps ^{(from PingCAP Blog)}

pYou have an AI app running on Vercel, or a prototype that v0.dev generated in a few minutes, and now it needs a real database. The choice is harder than it looks, because serverless functions and edge runtimes break the assumptions traditional databases are built on: long-lived TCP connections, a bounded pool, and a process […]/p pThe post Vercel and TiDB Cloud Starter: The Full-Stack Playbo [...]

Published Thursday, 24. September 2026 20:52 • 18 days ago

Amazon RDS for MySQL announces Extended Support minor versions 5.7.44-rds.20260902 and 8.0.46-rds.20260908 ^{(from AWS What's New)}

pAmazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for MySQL announces Amazon RDS Extended Support minor versions 5.7.44-rds.20260902 and 8.0.46-rds.20260908./p pAmazon RDS Extended Support provides up to three additional years of fixes for critical Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) and bugs beyond a major version's end of standard support date, giving you more time to upgrade to a new major versio [...]

Published Thursday, 24. September 2026 16:00 • 18 days ago

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

pMariaDB Foundation welcomes Kamatera, a global cloud infrastructure provider, as its newest Silver Sponsor.br Kamatera provides scalable cloud servers and infrastructure across a worldwide network of data centres, giving developers and organisations control over where and how they run their applications. … /p pContinue reading \"Kamatera joins MariaDB Foundation as a Silver Sponsor\"/p pKama [...]

Published Thursday, 24. September 2026 14:11 • 18 days ago

Ensuring High Availability for Resilient Cloud Databases with MariaDB ^{(from DBTA)}

High availability and disaster recovery are critical for cloud databases, but not all HA architectures deliver the same level of resilience when failures occur. DBTA recently held a webinar, Beyond Hyperscaler HA: Building Resilient Cloud Databases, with MariaDB experts who looked at the limitations of traditional hyperscaler DBaaS HA approaches and explained how modern database architectures can m [...]

Published Thursday, 24. September 2026 14:00 • 18 days ago

NodeJS MySQL Create Database ^{(from Code For Geek)}

Create a MySQL database from Node.js with one query. The trick is connecting without naming a database first, running CREATE DATABASE IF NOT EXISTS, then verifying the schema exists. Here is how to do it with mysql2 and handle the failures you will hit in production. The SQL you need IF NOT EXISTS is the […] [...]

Published Thursday, 24. September 2026 11:09 • 18 days ago

For MariaDB, LLMs are the new search engines to win over ^{(from The Register)}

Its vector search is ready, but coding assistants keep pointing developers toward other databases, says the foundation's chairman [...]

Published Thursday, 24. September 2026 10:00 • 18 days ago

MariaDB R2DBC Connector 1.3.2 and 1.2.4 now available ^{(from MariaDB Corporation Blog)}

MariaDB is pleased to announce the immediate availability of the MariaDB Connector/R2DBC 1.3.2 and 1.2.4 releases. Download Now Release Notes […] [...]

Published Wednesday, 23. September 2026 22:22 • 19 days ago

Access MySQL over MCP with vsql-mcp ^{(from VillageSQL)}

vsql-mcp puts a Model Context Protocol server inside VillageSQL Server, so AI agents can browse MySQL schema and run governed, read-only queries [...]

Published Wednesday, 23. September 2026 18:01 • 19 days ago

Lakebase, TiDB X, and the Database Architecture AI Demands ^{(from PingCAP Blog)}

pAn AI coding agent can generate an application, change its schema, test several implementations, and discard most of them within a single session. Another agent might spend that session updating orders and querying months of operational history. Both need durable state, correct transactions, and fast access. They also need something query throughput doesn’t measure: databases […]/p pThe post [...]

Published Wednesday, 23. September 2026 15:35 • 19 days ago

Join MySQL Public Discussion #6 and the November Contributor Summit ^{(from The Oracle MySQL Blog)}

The MySQL Community conversation continues this fall with two opportunities to connect, share feedback, and help shape the future of MySQL. Following the recent Contributor Summits and Public Discussions, we are continuing to expand practical ways for users, developers, DBAs, partners, and contributors to participate in technical discussions, share ideas, and collaborate more openly [...]

Published Wednesday, 23. September 2026 11:03 • 19 days ago

TideSQL 5 and MariaDB: the Tides Are Moving Fast ^{(from MariaDB Foundation Blog)}

pA few months ago, I wrote about my first experiments with TideSQL, the MariaDB storage engine powered by TidesDB.br At that time, getting started meant building the TidesDB library, adding the TideSQL sources to the MariaDB source tree, compiling everything, installing the plugin and finally playing with:br It worked, and I liked what I saw. … /p pContinue reading \"TideSQL 5 and MariaDB: th [...]

Published Wednesday, 23. September 2026 10:10 • 19 days ago

What’s new in dbForge 2026.2: New PostgreSQL Debugger, visual editors, broader context for AI Assistant, and much more ^{(from Devart MySQL Tool Blog)}

pMeet dbForge 2026.2 with a smarter AI Assistant, a brand new embedded PostgreSQL Debugger, additional visual object editors for PostgreSQL, as well as enhanced SQL development and schema comparison./p pThe post What’s new in dbForge 2026.2: New PostgreSQL Debugger, visual editors, broader context for AI Assistant, and much more appeared first on Devart Blog./p [...]

Published Wednesday, 23. September 2026 07:57 • 20 days ago

Managed Database Services for No-Code Platforms 2026 ^{(from Mydbops Blog)}

Managed database services for no code platforms: what to check, MySQL, PostgreSQL and MongoDB picks, and how to migrate off Bubble or Retool native storage. [...]

Published Wednesday, 23. September 2026 04:16 • 20 days ago

Your Replica Doesn't Need to Know Everything ^{(from DoltHub Blog)}

Dolt now supports MySQL-compatible wildcard table filters for binlog replication, so replicas can selectively apply row changes from matching tables. [...]

Published Wednesday, 23. September 2026 00:00 • 20 days ago

Hardening EmergencyReparentShard in v25 ^{(from Vitess)}

EmergencyReparentShard operations are being hardened in upcoming release v25. In this blog, we cover how ERS works and the upcoming changes that make recovery safer, faster and less brittle What is EmergencyReparentShard? # EmergencyReparentShard (ERS) is the Vitess failover process used when a shard's current primary is dead or unreachable. While PlannedReparentShard gets a clean handoff from a he [...]

Published Wednesday, 23. September 2026 00:00 • 20 days ago

How Atomic DDL Works in MySQL 8.0 ^{(from Libing Song's Blog)}

Before MySQL 8.0, DDL was not crash-safe. There were three main problems: The metadata in the server layer and the metadata/data in InnoDB could become inconsistent. The server-layer metadata was stored in files — for example, table definitions were kept in .frm files — while InnoDB kept its own copy of the metadata in its tables. A crash could leave... [...]

Published Tuesday, 22. September 2026 02:00 • 21 days ago | Updated Tuesday, 22. September 2026 16:06 • 20 days ago

PeakAIO contributes support of 8k API nodes to RonDB 26.02.11 ^{(from Mikael Ronstrom)}

pPeakAIO develops pNFS Lattice, a new parallel file system using RonDB as a metadata server. To support larger clusters they needed more API nodes. RonDB 25.10 added support for 2039 API nodes, now 26.02.11 when released will support 8191 API nodes./p pSince originally RonDB supported 255 API nodes, changing to 8191 API nodes caused a number of memory segments to grow significantly. So part of the [...]

Published Tuesday, 22. September 2026 13:48 • 20 days ago

2026 Percona Live EU - Amsterdam ^{(from One-Time MySQL Posts)}

I was super-eager to attend my first Percona Live as a Perconian. While I was supposed to be at the one in the US in May, my life was overtaken by events and I didn’t make it, so this was my first chance to attend since the one in Denver back in 2023. [...]

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

AI Agent State Explained ^{(from PingCAP Blog)}

pKey Takeaways An agent that forgets everything between calls can’t finish a multi-step task, can’t recover from a mid-workflow crash, and can’t show you what it actually did. That’s the practical cost of statelessness, and it’s the problem AI agent state exists to solve. AI agent state is the durable record of memory, task progress, […]/p pThe post AI Agent Stat [...]

Published Monday, 21. September 2026 21:35 • 21 days ago

Village News: MySQL News + Events (21 September 2026) ^{(from VillageSQL)}

pWelcome back. This issue covers five weeks rather than the usual one — the gap since the August issue took in Percona Live Amsterdam, the launch of the OurSQL Foundation, and the run-up to the MySQL Galera Cluster end of life on 30 September./ppIf you want to get/p [...]

Published Monday, 21. September 2026 16:58 • 21 days ago

Ensuring High Availability for Resilient Cloud Databases with MariaDB ^{(from DBTA)}

High availability and disaster recovery are critical for cloud databases, but not all HA architectures deliver the same level of resilience when failures occur. DBTA recently held a webinar, Beyond Hyperscaler HA: Building Resilient Cloud Databases, with MariaDB experts who looked at the limitations of traditional hyperscaler DBaaS HA approaches and explained how modern database architectures can m [...]

Published Monday, 21. September 2026 15:00 • 21 days ago

Why is Naomi Cannon bashing MariaDB? ^{(from Shinguz's Blog)}

p10 days ago, an article by Naomi Cannon on Reddit caught my attention; it included a link to the full article on Medium./p pAs I read through the article, I didn’t notice any major errors or false statements. What surprised me a bit was the detailed, technical knowledge in this article, which is unusual for a typical tech blogger./p pWhat bothered me about this article was that she mainly bashed M [...]

Published Monday, 21. September 2026 13:25 • 21 days ago

DISTANCE() and VECTOR_DISTANCE(): Vector Similarity in Percona Server for MySQL 9.7 ^{(from Percona Database Blog)}

pTL;DR Percona Server for MySQL 9.7.2-2 now supports DISTANCE() for vector similarity scoring directly in SQL (COSINE, EUCLIDEAN, MANHATTAN, DOT metrics). This is the compute primitive you need to rank or filter embeddings by similarity directly in SQL. ANN indexing (e.g. HNSW, IVF) is the next milestone for fast large-scale similarity search; and this function provides … Continued/p pThe pos [...]

Published Monday, 21. September 2026 09:57 • 21 days ago

Getting VECTOR capabilities in MySQL 8.4 using VillageSQL ^{(from Ronald Bradford Blog)}

For this quick verification of the 0.0.7 development branch of VillageSQL with the new vsql-vector plugin. Recreate the VillageSQL Percona Live presentation using MySQL version 8.4 and SVECTOR. Demonstrate a more detailed example using SVECTOR(1024) string embedded data. [...]

Published Sunday, 20. September 2026 00:00 • 23 days ago

MariaDB 13 Expands Oracle Compatibility and Improves Developer Experience and Observability ^{(from InfoQ)}

♦pMariaDB Community Server 13.0 has reached General Availability (GA) and is now officially stable. This release introduces a range of new features, deprecations, and performance improvements, including expanded support for procedural SQL, new DML capabilities, and more./p By Sergio De Simone [...]

Published Friday, 18. September 2026 19:00 • 24 days ago

MySQL Community Engagement in Brazil and Europe ^{(from The Oracle MySQL Blog)}

This September and October, Heather VanCura will meet with MySQL users, contributors, developers, DBAs, customers, and community leaders across Brazil and Europe. With more than 30 years of innovation behind it, the MySQL community is entering an important new phase. The focus is on expanding engagement, collaboration, and contributions while increasing and driving innovati [...]

Published Friday, 18. September 2026 17:13 • 24 days ago

“Verify, Measure, and Get Your Hands Dirty”: Two Decades of Database Support with Sveta Smirnova ^{(from MariaDB Foundation Blog)}

pAt Percona Live Amsterdam I caught up with Sveta Smirnova, a world-renowned MySQL expert, author of “MySQL Troubleshooting” and “MySQL Cookbook, 4th Edition”, and a frequent speaker at events from Oracle OpenWorld and FOSDEM to HighLoad. … /p pContinue reading \"“Verify, Measure, and Get Your Hands Dirty”: Two Decades of Database Support with Sveta Smirnov [...]

Published Friday, 18. September 2026 15:44 • 24 days ago

The ideal database for AI agents doesn't exist yet, says Percona CEO ^{(from The Register)}

Iterative workloads caught vendors off guard, but requirements for a clean-slate solution remain unclear [...]

Published Friday, 18. September 2026 12:34 • 24 days ago

MONyog vs Percona PMM ^{(from Webyog Blog)}

pPercona Monitoring and Management is open source. MONyog is not. But when you add up engineering hours, infrastructure overhead and ongoing maintenance, the math changes fast. Percona PMM is genuinely […]/p pThe post MONyog vs Percona PMM appeared first on Webyog./p [...]

Published Friday, 18. September 2026 12:09 • 24 days ago

The architecture of Neki ^{(from PlanetScale Blog)}

Sharded Postgres, from the team behind Vitess [...]

Published Friday, 18. September 2026 00:00 • 25 days ago

Galera Cluster Remains An Integral Part of MariaDB Server ^{(from MariaDB Corporation Blog)}

As we reach the final release of the MySQL version of Galera Cluster, we want to provide clarity around the […] [...]

Published Thursday, 17. September 2026 19:32 • 25 days ago

Why Your AI Agent Doesn’t Actually Remember Anything ^{(from PingCAP Blog)}

pEditor’s note: This post originally appeared on The New Stack and is republished with permission. The original version is available here. A few months ago, I was reviewing a customer support agent who had a strange failure pattern. A user would chat with it on Monday about a billing issue, get partway through the resolution, and […]/p pThe post Why Your AI Agent Doesn’t Actually Remember Any [...]

Published Thursday, 17. September 2026 16:14 • 25 days ago

The database world grew up — notes from Percona Live Amsterdam ^{(from MariaDB Foundation Blog)}

pLast week I spent a few days in Amsterdam at Percona Live. It was the first Percona Live in Europe since before the pandemic, and you could feel it in the room: a slightly disbelieving happiness at simply being together again. … /p pContinue reading \"The database world grew up — notes from Percona Live Amsterdam\"/p pThe database world grew up — notes from Percona Live Amsterdam appeared fi [...]

Published Thursday, 17. September 2026 13:09 • 25 days ago

Using DuckDB inside MySQL ^{(from VillageSQL)}

A duck, a dolphin, and a pelican walk into a bar... [...]

Published Thursday, 17. September 2026 13:00 • 25 days ago

Evaluating LLM models for DBA tasks ^{(from Percona Database Blog)}

p Evaluating LLM Models for DBA Tasks Large language models are increasingly capable of performing practical systems-administration tasks. I wanted to understand how well they could handle something more specialized: database administration. To explore this, I developed a harness for evaluating the ability of different LLMs to execute real DBA tasks on remote systems. My … Continued/p p [...]

Published Thursday, 17. September 2026 11:50 • 25 days ago

Group Replication Beyond a Single Cluster: DC-DR with Percona (PS MySQL) Operator ^{(from Percona Database Blog)}

pA while ago, we discussed the cross-site replication feature of the Percona PXC operator. Recently, a similar cross-site replication feature was introduced in the Percona (PS MySQL) operator v1.2.0, a topology based on Group Replication/InnoDB Cluster. In this blog post, we will explore how to add a DR Cluster to an existing DC Cluster to … Continued/p pThe post Group Replication Beyond a Si [...]

Published Thursday, 17. September 2026 06:43 • 26 days ago

MariaDB 13.0 Is Now Stable ^{(from MariaDB Foundation Blog)}

pMariaDB Server 13.0 is now Stable!br The 13.0 series started its journey in March 2026 with the Preview. It then progressed through the Release Candidate phase and is now ready for general use as MariaDB’s latest Stable rolling release. … /p pContinue reading \"MariaDB 13.0 Is Now Stable\"/p pMariaDB 13.0 Is Now Stable appeared first on MariaDB.org/p [...]

Published Thursday, 17. September 2026 06:30 • 26 days ago

Too many GCache Page Files in MySQL Data Directory ^{(from Percona Database Blog)}

pLearn why PXC accumulates thousands of gcache.page.* files, how frozen GCache purging causes disk growth, and how to safely recover and rejoin using IST./p pThe post Too many GCache Page Files in MySQL Data Directory appeared first on Percona./p [...]

Published Thursday, 17. September 2026 05:29 • 26 days ago

On JSONPath in MariaDB and MySQL ^{(from Sergei Petrunia's blog)}

JSONPath is a part of SQL Standard. MySQL and MariaDB support a subset of it: “lax mode” only, no support for predicates, etc. But even the lax mode implementation has behavior different from the standard: MDEV-40746: JSON Path computation doesn’t do lax mode unboxing. The same non-standard behavior can be observed in MariaDB, MySQL, and […] [...]

Published Wednesday, 16. September 2026 16:06 • 26 days ago

Trying DuckDB for Magento Analytics: An Experiment with One Million Orders ^{(from MariaDB Foundation Blog)}

pMagento normally uses InnoDB for orders, order items, invoices, and other transactional data. However, analytical reports have another workload. I wanted to check whether DuckDB can improve a real Magento report without replacing the operational database. … /p pContinue reading \"Trying DuckDB for Magento Analytics: An Experiment with One Million Orders\"/p pTrying DuckDB for Magento Analyti [...]

Published Wednesday, 16. September 2026 16:00 • 26 days ago

Traceability Matters: Gopal Shankar on Opening Up MySQL Development for the Next Decade ^{(from ODBMS Industry Watch)}

“Would making this capability available help a meaningful part of the MySQL community build better applications or run better systems?” Q1. MySQL has recently made available several features from the enterprise tier to the MySQL Community Edition. What is driving this direction? The simple answer is that Community Edition needs to stay strong for the […] [...]

Published Wednesday, 16. September 2026 14:07 • 26 days ago

1,000 MCP servers, zero schema bloat? Lessons from Uber's attack on AI costs ^{(from The Stack)}

Tool access architecture is a sweet cost lever, even before you think about model choices... [...]

Published Wednesday, 16. September 2026 13:07 • 26 days ago

MariaDB adoption is growing, and the way people get it is changing – Adoption Index 2026-09 ^{(from MariaDB Foundation Blog)}

pThe MariaDB Adoption Index is up 126% in a year. More people are downloading MariaDB, more people are contributing to it, and more projects are building on it than at any point since we started measuring. … /p pContinue reading \"MariaDB adoption is growing, and the way people get it is changing – Adoption Index 2026-09\"/p pMariaDB adoption is growing, and the way people get it is changing [...]

Published Wednesday, 16. September 2026 11:47 • 26 days ago

Node.js and MySQL Tutorial: Connect, Query, and Pool with mysql2 ^{(from Code For Geek)}

Install the mysql package, point it at MySQL 8, and the handshake dies with ER_NOT_SUPPORTED_AUTH_MODE. I reproduced that against MySQL 8.4.11 and MySQL 9.7.2 before a single query reached either server. mysql2 speaks the same protocol, adds a promise API and prepared statements, and authenticates through caching_sha2_password, the plugin MySQL has used by default since […] [...]

Published Wednesday, 16. September 2026 10:57 • 26 days ago

Vibe Coding a Database Lab: How I Built DBCanvas to Stop Rebuilding the Same Test Environment ^{(from Percona Community Blog)}

Percona gives us room to work on our own AI-assisted projects, and I used mine to fix a problem I kept running into. Every time I wanted to try a new database feature, debug something tricky, or reproduce a customer issue, I ended up rebuilding much of the same infrastructure: DNS, TLS, Docker networking, database topologies, users and test data. Over the years, I wrote scripts to automate this but [...]

Published Wednesday, 16. September 2026 10:31 • 26 days ago

NodeJS MySQL Select Unique ^{(from Code For Geek)}

I ran SELECT UNIQUE age FROM users on a table with a duplicated age. It returned 22, 17 and 15, the same rows SELECT DISTINCT returns. On MySQL 8 that statement stops before the table is read, because UNIQUE never entered the server’s select grammar, and DISTINCT is the modifier both servers accept. Which unique […] [...]

Published Wednesday, 16. September 2026 10:12 • 26 days ago

GitOps for Kubernetes Databases: From Infrastructure to Database Operators ^{(from Severalnines Blog)}

pMost platform teams already use GitOps for their Kubernetes apps. The config lives in Git, Argo CD applies it, and deployments are predictable. But look one layer down and things get messy. Infrastructure setup is often still done by hand, running Terraform locally or through scattered scripts. Database operations, especially for databases running through Kubernetes […]/p pThe post GitOps fo [...]

Published Wednesday, 16. September 2026 08:57 • 27 days ago

What We Learned From the First MySQL Ecosystem Spotlight ^{(from OurSQL Foundation Blog)}

pQuick test: name five tools in the MySQL ecosystem that are not MySQL itself. Most people stop at two./p pThat’s the real problem. MySQL is everywhere, but a lot of what’s built around it stays inside small circles. You know about it if you’re in the right Slack channel. Nobody else does./p pThat’s why, for our first conference booth, we did something a bit different: we ga [...]

Published Wednesday, 16. September 2026 00:00 • 27 days ago

Announcing MariaDB Community Server 13.0 GA ^{(from MariaDB Corporation Blog)}

MariaDB Community Server 13.0 GA deepens Oracle PL/SQL compatibility with REF CURSORs and RECORD types, gives developers UPDATE…RETURNING, expands manageability […] [...]

Published Tuesday, 15. September 2026 22:43 • 27 days ago

Vector search in MySQL: an early look at HNSW and custom indexes in VillageSQL ^{(from VillageSQL)}

An early look at custom indexes and vector search in MySQL (VillageSQL): HNSW index, 20x faster than a full scan, with recall measured. [...]

Published Tuesday, 15. September 2026 17:20 • 27 days ago

MariaDB Enterprise Server 12.3 Beta: Conflict-Aware Replication, Raft-Based Cluster, and Passwordless TLS Authentication ^{(from MariaDB Corporation Blog)}

MariaDB Enterprise Server 12.3.3-0 ES BETA is now available for testing, the first beta build of the upcoming MariaDB Enterprise […] [...]

Published Tuesday, 15. September 2026 17:03 • 27 days ago

Node.js MySQL Insert Record ^{(from Code For Geek)}

I pointed a Node script at a MySQL table and the connection succeeded. The INSERT failed on a name containing an apostrophe. Pasting values into the SQL string holds until real data arrives, then a name like O’Brien ends the run with a syntax error. Placeholders are the fix, and the driver escapes every value […] [...]

Published Tuesday, 15. September 2026 16:07 • 27 days ago

NodeJS MySQL Select Record ^{(from Code For Geek)}

RowDataPacket is the name MySQL hands back to Node.js, and it is the line most readers get stuck on. This is the select step end to end, from a running MySQL server to a callback whose rows you can read. What you need to run MySQL SELECT queries in NodeJS Three things, in dependency order. […] [...]

Published Tuesday, 15. September 2026 16:02 • 27 days ago

Performance improvements in Percona Server 8.4.11-11 ^{(from Percona Database Blog)}

pFocusing on Percona Server 8.4.11-11 My previous post (Performance Progression of Percona Server for MySQL 8.4) did a brief review of the performance changes in Percona Server for MySQL 8.4 released in 2026. I recommend reading it first to better understand the material in this post. Version 8.4.11-11 includes patches that deliver significant improvements in … Continued/p pThe post Performan [...]

Published Tuesday, 15. September 2026 11:52 • 27 days ago

Home and Pricing Page Redesign ^{(from DoltHub Blog)}

DoltHub is the version-controlled database company, and our new homepage and pricing page reflect that shift. [...]

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

Percona and HexaCluster: Faster, Safer Oracle Migration ^{(from Percona Database Blog)}

pPercona and HexaCluster have partnered to remove the hardest part of an open source database migration: getting off Oracle, SQL Server, DB2 or Sybase ASE with confidence, on a predictable timeline, without a multi-year consulting program. Percona brings open source expertise, its own distributions, operators and enterprise support. HexaCluster brings the assessment and migration engineering … [...]

Published Monday, 14. September 2026 22:19 • 28 days ago

AWS renews Diamond sponsorship of MariaDB Foundation for a fourth consecutive year ^{(from MariaDB Foundation Blog)}

pMariaDB Foundation is pleased to announce that Amazon Web Services (AWS) has renewed its Diamond sponsorship for a fourth consecutive year. … /p pContinue reading \"AWS renews Diamond sponsorship of MariaDB Foundation for a fourth consecutive year\"/p pAWS renews Diamond sponsorship of MariaDB Foundation for a fourth consecutive year appeared first on MariaDB.org/p [...]

Published Monday, 14. September 2026 16:35 • 28 days ago

AI Coding Agent Files Explained: How Persistent Workspaces Survive Resets ^{(from PingCAP Blog)}

pAn agent clones a repo, installs dependencies, reproduces a failing test, and gets three-quarters of the way through a fix. The sandbox hits its duration limit. The next run starts in an empty directory with the same task, the same prompt, and none of the evidence. Nothing crashed and nothing errored. The work was never […]/p pThe post AI Coding Agent Files Explained: How Persistent Workspac [...]

Published Monday, 14. September 2026 14:57 • 28 days ago

MySQL INSTANT DDL breaks EXCHANGE PARTITION ^{(from Kedar MySQL Blog)}

pMySQL ERROR 1731 'Non matching attribute INSTANT COLUMN(s)' breaks EXCHANGE PARTITION after ALGORITHM=INSTANT. This blog offers reasoning and fixtures./p The post MySQL INSTANT DDL breaks EXCHANGE PARTITION first appeared on Change Is Inevitable. [...]

Published Monday, 14. September 2026 13:36 • 28 days ago

Diagnosing MySQL Memory Problems with Jemalloc ^{(from Libing Song's Blog)}

This article is also available in Chinese: 中文版. Browse all English articles. Memory leaks and high memory usage are common problems in MySQL, and diagnosing them depends heavily on good memory-monitoring data. MySQL’s Performance Schema provides memory monitoring, but the granularity of PFS’s memory statistics is coarse, which makes it hard to pinpoint the exact code responsible. The figure above.. [...]

Published Wednesday, 08. April 2026 02:00 • 6 months ago | Updated Monday, 14. September 2026 11:24 • 28 days ago

Percona releases Galera Cluster Version 9.7 ^{(from Shinguz's Blog)}

pFinally, some good news again!/p What has happened so far pAfter MariaDB Corp. acquired Codership OY—and with it, Galera Cluster for MySQL—in May 2025 [ 1 ], then announced the discontinuation of support for Galera Cluster for MySQL 8.4 at the end of September 2026 [ 2 ], and subsequently stated that it would no longer support Galera Cluster (for MariaDB!) in the Community Edition [ 3 ], there was [...]

Published Monday, 14. September 2026 09:33 • 28 days ago

Optimising Multi-Range Queries with Logical Charts ^{(from Vettabase)}

Regular database indexes cannot be used for queries that contain conditions based on two or more ranges. But there are unconventional ways to solve this problem and make queries faster. In this post we’ll explore a conceptually simple way: logical charts. The Problem Suppose we need to find the customers in a certain age band who made a certain number of orders in the last 12 months. We have [...]

Published Monday, 14. September 2026 09:12 • 29 days ago

Continuing the ProxySQL.Cloud Conversation After Percona Live Amsterdam ^{(from ProxySQL Blog)}

Thank you to everyone who explored ProxySQL.Cloud with us in Amsterdam. Here is a closer look at the operational problems the platform is designed to solve and how to stay involved. [...]

Published Monday, 14. September 2026 00:00 • 29 days ago

NodeJS MySQL Drop Table ^{(from Code For Geek)}

DROP TABLE crashed my Node process when I re-ran it without a guard, and the fix turns that crash into a warning. I built every code path below on Node 26.7.0 with mysql 2.18.1 and mysql2 3.24.4 against MariaDB 10.11.14. I captured the terminal output as images so what you run matches what I saw. […] [...]

Published Sunday, 13. September 2026 14:07 • 29 days ago

NodeJS MySQL Create Table ^{(from Code For Geek)}

I ran node app.js once and the users table appeared, then I ran it again and MySQL returned Table users already exists. If you copy the Node.js MySQL create table snippet from an older tutorial you expect it to be safe to rerun because the code looks like any other setup script, so the duplicate […] [...]

Published Sunday, 13. September 2026 11:10 • 29 days ago

Thank You for Connecting with ProxySQL at Percona Live Amsterdam 2026 ^{(from ProxySQL Blog)}

Thank you to everyone who met the ProxySQL team in Amsterdam. Continue the conversation with resources for ProxySQL.Cloud, MySQL, PostgreSQL, high availability, routing, and observability. [...]

Published Sunday, 13. September 2026 00:00 • 30 days ago

MySQL Workbench 26.7で試してほしい5つのこと ^{(from The Oracle MySQL Blog)}

本記事は、Five Things to Try in MySQL Workbench 26.7の日本語訳です。 MySQL Workbench 26.7では、最新のテクノロジーとMySQL Shellを基盤として構築した、新世代のMySQL Workbenchを導入しました。 Alfredo Kojimaによるブログ「MySQL Workbench 26のご紹介」では、新しいアーキテクチャと今回のリリースで利用できる機能について分かりやすく紹介しています。ここではその内容を繰り返すのではなく、Workbench 26.7をインストールしたら、ぜひ試していただきたい機能をいくつか紹介します。すぐに確認できるものもあれば、新しいインターフェースを使い込んでいくうちに初めて気付くような機能もあります。 1. Notebookを使う、またはSQL Scriptを使い続ける SQL Notebook [...]

Published Saturday, 12. September 2026 17:40 • 1 months ago

Runtime: Orchid Security wants to kill your agents ^{(from The Stack)}

+ Jira gets loopy, OpenAI's new data tool, and Qodo unleashes VAR for code. [...]

Published Saturday, 12. September 2026 15:00 • 1 months ago

NodeJS MySQL Create Connection ^{(from Code For Geek)}

I rebuilt this MySQL connection from scratch on Node 26 with mysql2 3.24.4 because the old page still taught the unmaintained mysql package. It left every error to a throw that crashes your process. I ran each snippet below against a local MariaDB 10.11 on 3306, so every ER_ACCESS_DENIED_ERROR you see came from a run […] [...]

Published Saturday, 12. September 2026 14:05 • 1 months ago

Node.js and MySQL Connection Pool Example ^{(from Code For Geek)}

I threw a per-request MySQL connection into a small Node API and watched it limp under concurrent load, so I rebuilt it with a mysql2 pool and kept the receipts. I created the pool with createPool on Node v26.7.0 and mysql2 3.24.4, ran pool.query and pool.getConnection against a local host, and got ER_ACCESS_DENIED_NO_PASSWORD_ERROR back because […] [...]

Published Saturday, 12. September 2026 11:06 • 1 months ago

Dynamic Data Masking in Percona Server for MySQL: Setup & Best Practices ^{(from Mydbops Blog)}

Learn how to implement Dynamic Data Masking in Percona Server for MySQL using masking components, secure views, and in-memory dictionary caching in 8.4.4. [...]

Published Friday, 11. September 2026 18:16 • 1 months ago

Five Things to Try in MySQL Workbench 26.7 ^{(from The Oracle MySQL Blog)}

With MySQL Workbench 26.7, we introduced a new generation of MySQL Workbench, built on updated technology and on the MySQL Shell foundation. Alfredo Kojima’s post, Introducing MySQL Workbench 26, provides a great overview of the new architecture and the capabilities available in this release. Rather than repeat that overview, I wanted to share a few things […] [...]

Published Friday, 11. September 2026 17:40 • 1 months ago

Synchronize MySQL and IndexedDB in an Offline-First App ^{(from Code For Geek)}

When you build an offline-first app, the question is what happens to a change while there is no network. The answer is a queue that writes to IndexedDB first, pushes to MySQL, and clears the local copy only after the server confirms. The library versions behind that run are Express 5.2.1 and mysql2 3.24.4, both […] [...]

Published Friday, 11. September 2026 11:20 • 1 months ago

Ajax in Node.js: How to Build a Live Search Feature ^{(from Code For Geek)}

Adding live search to a Node.js and MySQL app takes a query, an endpoint, and a little front-end code. The last step is a search box that filters the table as you type. Express 5.2.1, mysql2 3.24.4 and MariaDB 10.11 served that run, and the row counts come from EXPLAIN rather than a stopwatch. Load […] [...]

Published Friday, 11. September 2026 11:20 • 1 months ago

Postgres follows the SQL standard for UPDATE statements, unlike MySQL ^{(from DoltHub Blog)}

Learn how Dolt and Doltgres support different SQL behavior on a shared engine using a new engine extension point [...]

Published Friday, 11. September 2026 00:00 • 1 months ago

1 month, 5 outages: Databases are under massive strain at GitHub ^{(from The Stack)}

Peak cache CPU utilisation for GitHub Actions trimmed, temporarily, from a worrying 98% to 80%, MySQL DBs moving to Azure... [...]

Published Thursday, 10. September 2026 15:56 • 1 months ago

MySQL & Friends: Distributed Databases@SCaLE ^{(from Dave's MySQL Stuff)}

pThe 24th Annual Southern California Linux Expo – SCaLE 24x – to be held April 1-4, 2027 at the Pasadena Convention Center in Pasadena, California, near Los Angeles./ppWe invite you to share your work on FOSS programs and open hardware projects with the rest of the community and to exchange ideas with leading experts in these fields./ppThis year, the traditional MySQL track is expanding to include [...]

Published Thursday, 10. September 2026 13:27 • 1 months ago

TideSQL 5 Arrives in MariaDB, How Does It Stack Up Against InnoDB? ^{(from TidesDB Blog)}

TideSQL 5.0.0 arrives as a MariaDB storage engine. A sysbench run on MariaDB 13.1.0 sees it beat InnoDB on nine of ten OLTP workloads, from 4x to 60x. [...]

Published Thursday, 10. September 2026 12:53 • 1 months ago

MONyog vs SolarWinds ^{(from Webyog Blog)}

pThe MySQL monitoring tool built for DBAs — not multi-database budgets. SolarWinds treats MySQL as one entry on a menu of eight databases. MONyog exists for one reason: keeping MySQL […]/p pThe post MONyog vs SolarWinds appeared first on Webyog./p [...]

Published Thursday, 10. September 2026 12:16 • 1 months ago

The Perfect Serve: What Tennis Taught Me About Reading PMM Like a Coach Instead of Guessing ^{(from Percona Community Blog)}

When I started learning tennis as an adult, I realized that what made tennis difficult was not learning the tennis strokes, instead it was learning to realize the value of the feedback loop: racket vibrations, tennis ball sounds, and the way my balance shifted before I even realized it. None of this information is obvious on the court. However, without it I would continue to make the same significa [...]

Published Thursday, 10. September 2026 12:00 • 1 months ago

Introducing Neki ^{(from PlanetScale Blog)}

Neki, sharded Postgres by PlanetScale, is now available in platform preview. [...]

Published Thursday, 10. September 2026 12:00 • 1 months ago

Introducing MySQL Workbench 26 ^{(from The Oracle MySQL Blog)}

The MySQL team at Oracle is excited to announce MySQL Workbench 26.7, the first of a new generation of the GUI administration and development tool for MySQL. A New Workbench MySQL Workbench 8 has served the community well, but it’s now old and has reached end of life. Its architecture, built on C++ and platform […] [...]

Published Thursday, 10. September 2026 10:20 • 1 months ago

How to setup and use Percona Binlog Server (PBS) ^{(from Kedar MySQL Blog)}

pEarlier last week I was working with Percona Binlog Server, Percona’s tool for archiving the MySQL binary log (binlog) outside of a traditional replica and exploring what it can do.…/p The post How to setup and use Percona Binlog Server (PBS) first appeared on Change Is Inevitable. [...]

Published Thursday, 10. September 2026 08:14 • 1 months ago

GitHub availability report: August 2026 ^{(from The GitHub Blog)}

pIn August, we experienced five incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services./p pThe post GitHub availability report: August 2026 appeared first on The GitHub Blog./p [...]

Published Thursday, 10. September 2026 02:05 • 1 months ago

Enabling TLS in PXC without Downtime ^{(from Percona Database Blog)}

pStarting with Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC) 8.0, replication traffic encryption is enabled by default. That said, it’s common to find clusters running without TLS that suddenly need it: a new compliance requirement, an audit finding, a network segment that is no longer considered trusted. PXC has a variable for exactly that case, pxc-encrypt-cluster-traffic, which handles … Continued/p [...]

Published Wednesday, 09. September 2026 23:32 • 1 months ago

Percona Operator for PostgreSQL 3.1.0: Transparent Data Encryption, Logical Replicas, and Persistent Logging ^{(from Percona Database Blog)}

pPercona Operator for PostgreSQL 3.1.0 takes on three things that decide whether a PostgreSQL platform passes review: is the data encrypted at rest, can it serve reads without straining the primary, and are the logs there when you need them. This release answers all three inside the custom resource, so none of them is a … Continued/p pThe post Percona Operator for PostgreSQL 3.1.0: Transparen [...]

Published Wednesday, 09. September 2026 16:08 • 1 months ago

Meet pgstef: Why Stefan Fercot Joined Percona, and Why You Should Find Him at Percona Live Amsterdam ^{(from Percona Database Blog)}

pIf you have spent any time in the Postgres community, you already know the name pgstef. Stefan Fercot has spent years as one of the most visible advocates for pgBackRest, a familiar face at European Postgres conferences, and countless hallway conversations about backups, high availability, and everything in between. Now he is doing that work … Continued/p pThe post Meet pgstef: Why Stefan Fe [...]

Published Wednesday, 09. September 2026 15:55 • 1 months ago

HTML5 Push Notification System Using Nodejs MySQL Socket.io ^{(from Code For Geek)}

Post a comment in one browser and watch it appear in a second browser in the same second, with a desktop notification on top. That is the whole project. You build it with Express, a MySQL database, and Socket.IO broadcast, and every sample below ran on current releases before publication. I ran the rebuilt stack […] [...]

Published Wednesday, 09. September 2026 09:18 • 1 months ago

Best Practices for AI-Assisted App Development: Reviewing AI-Generated Code for Production ^{(from PingCAP Blog)}

pThis article shows how to efficiently develop high-quality applications with TiDB, an open-source NewSQL database that supports Hybrid Transactional and Analytical Processing (HTAP) workloads and can serve as a scale-out MySQL database without manual sharding./p pThe post Best Practices for AI-Assisted App Development: Reviewing AI-Generated Code for Production appeared first on TiDB./p [...]

Published Wednesday, 09. September 2026 07:00 • 1 months ago

Enabling OCI Log Analytics for MySQL HeatWave – Now available for MySQL 8.4 ^{(from The Oracle MySQL Blog)}

MySQL HeatWave telemetry is the built-in capability for exporting selected MySQL server logs to an observability destination. When telemetry is configured with OCI Log Analytics, it export MySQL log natively for search and analysis – supporting security investigations, database and operational errors troubleshooting, identification of costly SQL and performance bottlenecks, and centralized au [...]

Published Tuesday, 08. September 2026 20:09 • 1 months ago

Amazon RDS for MariaDB now supports community MariaDB minor versions 10.6.28, 10.11.19, 11.4.13, 11.8.9, and 12.3.3 ^{(from AWS What's New)}

pStarting today, Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MariaDB now supports MariaDB minor versions 10.6.28, 10.11.19, 11.4.13, 11.8.9, and 12.3.3, the latest minors released by community MariaDB. In addition to operational improvements, these minor versions introduce support for post-quantum TLS (PQ-TLS) key exchange, providing you with post-quantum cryptography options for encry [...]

Published Tuesday, 08. September 2026 16:00 • 1 months ago

Automating MySQL HeatWave Maintenance with the OCI Command Line Interface (CLI) ^{(from The Oracle MySQL Blog)}

Manage recurring maintenance windows, defer disruptive maintenance, and audit maintenance activity with a reusable Bash utility. MySQL HeatWave on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure gives administrators control over when scheduled maintenance can occur and, with maintenance-disabled windows, the ability to temporarily defer non-critical maintenance that would cause downtime. That flexibility is useful whe [...]

Published Tuesday, 08. September 2026 15:26 • 1 months ago

RavenDB brings AI agents to existing SQL databases with Quill ^{(from Techzine)}

RavenDB introduces Quill, a context layer that sits on top of existing PostgreSQL, SQL Server, and MySQL databases. This lets organizations deploy AI agents in production without migrating their system of record or building a complete AI stack. RavenDB, a NoSQL document database, aims to address a problem many IT departments now face with Quill. […] [...]

Published Tuesday, 08. September 2026 13:00 • 1 months ago

Advanced Cryptography in MySQL with vsql-crypto ^{(from VillageSQL)}

Advanced cryptography for MySQL (VillageSQL): salted password hashing, HMAC signatures, AES encryption with random IVs, and secure random IDs. [...]

Published Tuesday, 08. September 2026 11:48 • 1 months ago

MariaDB’s Database Survey 2026 ^{(from ODBMS.org)}

How are developers and organisations really using databases — and MariaDB? Take our survey and help shape this year’s public report. The survey is anonymous and should take 8 minutes or less to finish. Results will... [...]

Published Tuesday, 08. September 2026 09:27 • 1 months ago

MariaDB Enterprise Server Maintenance Releases ^{(from MariaDB Corporation Blog)}

New security maintenance releases for MariaDB Enterprise Server: 11.8.9-6, 11.4.13-10, and 10.6.28-24 are now available. While these releases were originally […] [...]

Published Monday, 07. September 2026 17:50 • 1 months ago

DB Trail World Tour – Sept 2026 ^{(from dbtrail Blog)}

pAmsterdam, The Netherlands: perconalive.com/2026-amsterdam/talks/mysql-time-travel-practical-row-level-recovery-with-open-source-tools Montevideo, Uruguay: percona.university/event/percona-university-montevideo-uruguay/ Buenos Aires, Argentina: nerdearla.com/en/argentina/schedule/poor-mans-lakehouse-analytics-historicas-y-recovery-sobre-mysql-con-duckdb-parquet/ Sao Paulo, Brasil: mysqlbrconf.com. [...]

Published Monday, 07. September 2026 12:09 • 1 months ago

Dealing with caching_sha2_password in MariaDB Server – Part 2: Migrating Users from MySQL with pt-show-grants ^{(from lefred's blog)}

In the first part of this article, I explained how MariaDB Server can authenticate users using caching_sha2_password, and more importantly, how it is possible to migrate an existing MySQL user to MariaDB while keeping the same password. The solution works, but there is one obvious problem: it is mostly a manual process. For one user, […] [...]

Published Monday, 07. September 2026 11:16 • 1 months ago

ProxySQL HA with BGP ECMP Anycast ^{(from Percona Community Blog)}

When setting up a new database for an application, high availability (HA) is one of the main priorities. Let’s assume for this example that you chose to use a Percona XtraDB (PXC) cluster to host your database. But how does the application know which PXC node is healthy and can receive application traffic? Introducing a cluster of ProxySQLs can solve this problem, as ProxySQL will healthcheck the d [...]

Published Monday, 07. September 2026 11:00 • 1 months ago

Rethinking PAM ^{(from MariaDB Foundation Blog)}

pPAM, Pluggable Authentication Modules, originated in Solaris and became common place in all Linux, BSDs, and AIX, HP-UX and macOS. MariaDB has had PAM support as an option since MariaDB 5.2.10 becoming stable in 10.0.11. … /p pContinue reading \"Rethinking PAM\"/p pRethinking PAM appeared first on MariaDB.org/p [...]

Published Monday, 07. September 2026 06:59 • 1 months ago

Something restarts my MySQL every morning. It isn’t MySQL. ^{(from Another Boring Tech Blog)}

pMySQL keeps restarting on its own. The alert fires at 06:37, the database is back before anyone opens a laptop, the log holds a wall of Lost connection to MySQL server during query, and uptime says 41 days. The next morning it is 06:12, the morning after that nothing. On a default Ubuntu or Debian […]/p pO post Something restarts my MySQL every morning. It isn’t MySQL. apareceu primeir [...]

Published Sunday, 06. September 2026 21:32 • 1 months ago

Meet ProxySQL at Percona Live 2026 Amsterdam ^{(from ProxySQL Blog)}

ProxySQL is sponsoring Percona Live 2026 Amsterdam. Visit our booth September 9–11 to meet the team, preview ProxySQL.Cloud, and talk MySQL and PostgreSQL operations. [...]

Published Sunday, 06. September 2026 00:00 • 1 months ago

From a Chocolate Wrapper to Concurrent InnoDB Page Splits ^{(from MariaDB Foundation Blog)}

pThis work started from a conversation with Monty Widenius at Meet Magento Czech in August. We discussed possible ways to improve the scalability of the InnoDB B+Tree, especially its insert path and page splits. … /p pContinue reading \"From a Chocolate Wrapper to Concurrent InnoDB Page Splits\"/p pFrom a Chocolate Wrapper to Concurrent InnoDB Page Splits appeared first on MariaDB.org/p [...]

Published Saturday, 05. September 2026 20:24 • 1 months ago

Database branching explained: How it works and when to use it ^{(from Devart MySQL Tool Blog)}

pYour application code branches in seconds. Your database still gets copied, shared, and fought over. Here is how database branching closes that gap, where it breaks down, and what has to sit around it before it makes releases safer./p pThe post Database branching explained: How it works and when to use it appeared first on Devart Blog./p [...]

Published Saturday, 05. September 2026 16:56 • 1 months ago

Announcing ProxySQL 3.0.11, 3.1.11, and 4.0.11 ^{(from ProxySQL Blog)}

ProxySQL 3.0.11, 3.1.11, and 4.0.11 improve multiplexing, causal reads, modern authentication, FFTO and TSDB reliability, and MCP/GenAI operations. [...]

Published Saturday, 05. September 2026 00:00 • 1 months ago

MySQL 26.7 and the Power of Community Contribution ^{(from The Oracle MySQL Blog)}

As we have discussed through the new MySQL Community Engagement initiative, we are sharing metrics that highlight how the community contributes to MySQL. These measures help us understand the growth of community participation, recognize the people helping improve the product, and identify where we can continue to strengthen the contributor experience. The MySQL community delivered […] [...]

Published Friday, 04. September 2026 16:43 • 1 months ago

Launching MariaDB’s Database Survey 2026 ^{(from MariaDB Foundation Blog)}

pWe want to know how you’re really using MariaDB — and databases in general. Not the marketing version or the one-off case study. The real story: what you’re building, how you are using it, what’s working, and what’s frustrating. … /p pContinue reading \"Launching MariaDB’s Database Survey 2026\"/p pLaunching MariaDB’s Database Survey 2026 appeared fi [...]

Published Friday, 04. September 2026 10:03 • 1 months ago

MariaDB Plugins Beyond C++: What the Community Told Us ^{(from MariaDB Foundation Blog)}

pA few weeks ago, we asked a simple question:br Which language would you use to write MariaDB plugins?br The question related to MDEV-40189 (Support plugins written in various languages), an idea we introduced earlier this summer to lower the barrier to MariaDB plugin development by supporting languages other than C and C++. … /p pContinue reading \"MariaDB Plugins Beyond C++: What the Commun [...]

Published Friday, 04. September 2026 09:56 • 1 months ago

Serverless MySQL for AI Agents: Store Memory, Tool Outputs, and Searchable State in One Backend ^{(from PingCAP Blog)}

pMySQL AI, in the sense that matters most to application teams, means MySQL-compatible infrastructure that holds agent memory, tool outputs, embeddings, and persistent application state in one backend, with vector search and SQL available in the same query. Serverless MySQL for AI agents is that backend delivered as an auto-scaling service rather than a cluster […]/p pThe post Serverless MySQ [...]

Published Thursday, 03. September 2026 21:05 • 1 months ago

OAuth2 and JWT Logins for MySQL ^{(from VillageSQL)}

MySQL logins without passwords: vsql-oauth2 lets accounts authenticate with OAuth2/OIDC JWTs and map their roles onto database roles. [...]

Published Thursday, 03. September 2026 17:37 • 1 months ago

Troubleshoot AWS Advanced JDBC Wrapper configuration for Aurora Global Database write forwarding ^{(from AWS Database Blog)}

Configuring the AWS Advanced JDBC Wrapper for Amazon Aurora Global Database with write forwarding requires Region-specific settings, and misconfiguration causes latency spikes and connection failures. This post walks through the correct dialect, plugins, host patterns, and write forwarding settings for the primary and secondary Regions. [...]

Published Thursday, 03. September 2026 16:26 • 1 months ago

Amazon Aurora MySQL 8.4.8 (compatible with MySQL 8.4.8) is now generally available ^{(from AWS What's New)}

pStarting today, Amazon Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition 8.4 will support MySQL 8.4.8. In addition to several security enhancements and bug fixes, Aurora MySQL 8.4.8 includes several improvements, such as support for post-quantum TLS (PQ-TLS) key exchange, transaction timeout, multi-source replication, and delayed replication. PQ-TLS provides you with post-quantum cryptography options for encrypting [...]

Published Thursday, 03. September 2026 16:01 • 1 months ago

Amazon Aurora MySQL now supports multi-source replication and delayed replication ^{(from AWS What's New)}

pStarting today, Amazon Aurora MySQL supports two new replication capabilities: multi-source replication and delayed replication. Multi-source replication lets a single Aurora MySQL cluster replicate from multiple source databases at the same time, making it easier to consolidate data from separate MySQL databases. This enables critical use-cases, such as merging shards or aggregating data from sep [...]

Published Thursday, 03. September 2026 16:00 • 1 months ago

MariaDB R2DBC Connector 1.4.2 now available ^{(from MariaDB Corporation Blog)}

MariaDB is pleased to announce the immediate availability of the MariaDB Connector/R2DBC 1.4.2 GA release. Download Now Release Notes MariaDB […] [...]

Published Thursday, 03. September 2026 14:06 • 1 months ago

MariaDB Connector/C Compatibility: An Update on CONC-821 ^{(from MariaDB Foundation Blog)}

pAs a DBA, there are some surprises I enjoy. Discovering a useful feature is one of them. Discovering that an application behaves differently after a maintenance update is considerably further down the list. … /p pContinue reading \"MariaDB Connector/C Compatibility: An Update on CONC-821\"/p pMariaDB Connector/C Compatibility: An Update on CONC-821 appeared first on MariaDB.org/p [...]

Published Thursday, 03. September 2026 12:02 • 1 months ago

Keybench Analysis on TidesDB v10.0.0 and RocksDB v11.8.1 ^{(from TidesDB Blog)}

A five workload comparison of TidesDB v10.0.0 and RocksDB v11.8.1 using keybench, at 10 GiB per workload on two machines, a small server on SATA and a large server on NVMe, with the seed rates, write amplification and variance numbers and the caveats that come with them. [...]

Published Thursday, 03. September 2026 11:23 • 1 months ago

Improving container security in your CI/CD pipeline ^{(from Ronald Bradford Blog)}

At PyCon AU 2026 , the presentation Your Python container is 90% stuff you didn’t ask for by Scott Norris at Chainguard really exposed the impact of being lazy in container management for security purposes. [...]

Published Thursday, 03. September 2026 00:00 • 1 months ago

MySQL 26.7 and 9.7 LTS: 7 Powerful Features for Performance, Scalability and High Availability ^{(from MinervaDB Blog)}

MySQL 26.7 is the first release Oracle has shipped under calendar versioning, and it landed on 28 July 2026 together with MySQL 9.7.2 LTS and MySQL 8.4.11 LTS. Most of the coverage so far has [...] [...]

Published Wednesday, 02. September 2026 19:07 • 1 months ago

[In preview] Public Preview: Reader Endpoint for Azure Database for MySQL ^{(from Azure Updates)}

We’re happy to announce the public preview of reader endpoint support to simplify connection management when using multiple replicas in Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server. A reader endpoint enables automatic load balancing of read-only connection [...]

Published Wednesday, 02. September 2026 16:59 • 1 months ago

On how MySQL implements JSON ARRAY indexing ^{(from Sergei Petrunia's blog)}

Me and Yuchen Pei have been studying how JSON ARRAY indexing is done in MySQL. The details are posted here: MDEV-40822. Yuchen has discovered cases where using ARRAY index for reads causes different query results from the same query not using the index. Looks like a bug (or maybe two). Sometimes one has to choose […] [...]

Published Wednesday, 02. September 2026 11:04 • 1 months ago

OpenID Connect Authentication for MySQL, Now Fully Open Source ^{(from Percona Database Blog)}

pPercona Server for MySQL now ships with a fully open source OpenID Connect (OIDC) authentication plugin, available starting with Percona Server for MySQL 8.4.11-11 and 9.7.2-2 (not yet released as of this writing). It allows a MySQL account to authenticate against any standards-compliant Identity Provider (IdP) instead of relying on a locally stored password, closing … Continued/p pThe post [...]

Published Wednesday, 02. September 2026 08:56 • 1 months ago

MariaDB/MySQL Environment MyEnv 3.0.1 has been released ^{(from Shinguz's Blog)}

pFromDual has the pleasure to announce the release of the new version 3.0.1 of its popular MariaDB, MySQL and PostgreSQL multi-instance environment MyEnv./p pThe new MyEnv can be downloaded here. How to install MyEnv is described in the MyEnv Installation Guide./p pIn the inconceivable case that you find a bug in the MyEnv please report it to our public repository on Codeberg./p pAny feedback, stat [...]

Published Wednesday, 02. September 2026 07:51 • 1 months ago

Introducing the OurSQL Foundation ^{(from OurSQL Foundation Blog)}

pEarlier this year, we held two MySQL Summits where we discussed concerns that the MySQL ecosystem has stalled and that MySQL is no longer the automatic first choice for new projects./p pDespite these concerns, we recognize that MySQL remains widely deployed in production and is still an excellent database for building a business./p pWe believe this slow growth stems from the lack of a neutral part [...]

Published Wednesday, 02. September 2026 00:00 • 1 months ago

What is a Serverless Database and Why It Matters for Modern AI Apps ^{(from PingCAP Blog)}

pA serverless database is a cloud database that decouples compute from storage, scales capacity automatically as demand changes, and bills for what a workload actually consumes. Servers still exist. The difference is that you never size them, patch them, or pay for idle ones, and capacity planning stops being a launch-day decision. That difference matters […]/p pThe post What is a Serverless [...]

Published Tuesday, 01. September 2026 20:10 • 1 months ago

MariaDB 12.3 InnoDB-Accelerated Binary Logging: Delivering 1.50x Higher Throughput ^{(from MariaDB Corporation Blog)}

What Is the MariaDB Binary Log Bottleneck and How Does InnoDB-Based Logging Solve It? In modern high-performance database infrastructure, the […] [...]

Published Tuesday, 01. September 2026 18:12 • 1 months ago

VMware Explore: Broadcom touts faster "metal to model”, partnerships, hardened container images ^{(from The Stack)}

Bare metal provisioning for multiple vendors, done via VCF in minutes? [...]

Published Tuesday, 01. September 2026 14:30 • 1 months ago

MariaDB Foundation Newsletter – September 2026 ^{(from MariaDB Foundation Blog)}

pAugust belonged to transparency: MariaDB published its governance framework, and the first contribution statistics report in over a year put numbers on who actually builds the server. … /p pContinue reading \"MariaDB Foundation Newsletter – September 2026\"/p pMariaDB Foundation Newsletter – September 2026 appeared first on MariaDB.org/p [...]

Published Tuesday, 01. September 2026 11:30 • 1 months ago

Guide to replica_allow_higher_version_source in MySQL ^{(from Mydbops Blog)}

Prevent silent replication breakage during MySQL upgrades using the replica_allow_higher_version_source system variable. [...]

Published Tuesday, 01. September 2026 11:24 • 1 months ago

Remote DBA Services for Online Gaming Platforms 2026 ^{(from Mydbops Blog)}

Compare remote DBA services for online gaming platforms in 2026: MySQL InnoDB Cluster, MongoDB, PostgreSQL and TiDB, with PCI-DSS and 24/7 coverage checks. [...]

Published Tuesday, 01. September 2026 10:09 • 1 months ago

Java and MySQL Connectivity Using JDBC ^{(from Code For Geek)}

Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) gives a Java program a standard API for opening a MySQL connection, sending SQL, and reading rows. The work starts with a compatible MySQL driver, a complete JDBC URL, and an account that can reach only the database your program needs. I compiled the example below with Maven resolving MySQL Connector/J […] [...]

Published Tuesday, 01. September 2026 08:19 • 1 months ago

Recovering PostgreSQL Data When Blocks Are Corrupted ^{(from Shinguz's Blog)}

pAs part of our work on “PostgreSQL for Dolphins and Sea Lions,” I also enjoy reading the PostgreSQL mailing lists to see what kinds of problems come up and how they’re solved./p pOne email in particular caught my attention:/p blockquote pI’m unable to access one of the tables. Even a simple codeSELECT/code statement fails with the error below./p precodeprod=# SELECT count(*) FROM schema.tabl [...]

Published Tuesday, 01. September 2026 08:12 • 1 months ago

Announcing ProxySQL.Cloud ^{(from ProxySQL Blog)}

A new SaaS platform to manage and monitor your MySQL and PostgreSQL environments from one control plane. Previewing at Percona Live 2026 Amsterdam. [...]

Published Tuesday, 01. September 2026 00:00 • 1 months ago

Managed Database Services for SaaS Startups: 2026 Guide ^{(from Mydbops Blog)}

Compare managed database services for SaaS startups across MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, MariaDB and TiDB, with 24/7 DBA coverage and compliance checks. [...]

Published Monday, 31. August 2026 17:37 • 1 months ago

How I Built a SQL Diagnostic Tool That Works Without Touching Your Database ^{(from DZone)}

pMost developers I've worked with write SQL every day. Very few of them are DBAs. According to the 2024 Stack Overflow Developer Survey — 65,000 developers across 185 countries — database administrators make up just 0.3% of the developer population. The tools built for SQL performance were designed for that 0.3%. I built QueryTuner for everyone else./p pI've spent 13 years as an application archite [...]

Published Monday, 31. August 2026 15:00 • 1 months ago

MariaDB at Percona Live Amsterdam 2026: Ecosystem, Plugins, Security, and Community ^{(from MariaDB Foundation Blog)}

pMariaDB is heading to Percona Live Amsterdam 2026! Join us for sessions on server plugins, protocol security and ecosystem building, hear independent MariaDB experiences, meet Percona\'s new General Manager for MariaDB, and visit the MariaDB booth for demos and discussions with our engineers./p pMariaDB at Percona Live Amsterdam 2026: Ecosystem, Plugins, Security, and Community appeared first on M [...]

Published Monday, 31. August 2026 10:21 • 1 months ago

MariaDB Server – See What Changed Between Versions ^{(from lefred's blog)}

As a DBA, comparing Database Server versions is an important part of preparing an upgrade. You need to know which server options were added or removed, which defaults changed, and what else is different between the versions you are running and the versions you plan to deploy. When I worked with MySQL, I used a […] [...]

Published Monday, 31. August 2026 07:30 • 1 months ago

Install MySQL on macOS with Homebrew ^{(from Code For Geek)}

Homebrew gives you the shortest path to a local MySQL server on macOS, but an install command alone does not prove that the server is running or that the client can connect. I checked the Homebrew mysql formula and built this sequence around the package, service, security, and connection checks it documents. Use this route […] [...]

Published Monday, 31. August 2026 04:33 • 1 months ago

How one connection kills a database ^{(from PlanetScale Blog)}

Unblock stuck connections with live connection management in the PlanetScale CLI and dashboard [...]

Published Monday, 31. August 2026 00:00 • 1 months ago

My take on PyCon Australia 2026 ^{(from Ronald Bradford Blog)}

PyCon AU 2026 held in Brisbane this week was a five day event for the Python community. With specialized tracks and dedicated tutorial and engineering days there was a wide variety of content available. [...]

Published Sunday, 30. August 2026 00:00 • 1 months ago

Connect Deno to MySQL with mysql2 ^{(from Code For Geek)}

Deno can use the mysql2 driver through its npm compatibility layer, so a Deno app can open a MySQL connection without reviving an older URL import. The working path is small: give the app a limited database account, read its connection values from environment variables, execute a parameterized query, then close the pool. I ran […] [...]

Published Saturday, 29. August 2026 09:12 • 1 months ago

MySQL Release Models: LTS, Innovation, and Single Release ^{(from The Oracle MySQL Blog)}

What LTS, Innovation, and “latest supported” mean across MySQL Server, Shell, Router, Connectors, and Operator MySQL has two different release models, and understanding which products follow which model makes choosing versions much simpler. MySQL Server and MySQL NDB Cluster offer Long-Term Support (LTS) and Innovation releases. MySQL Shell, MySQL Router, MySQL Connectors, [...]

Published Friday, 28. August 2026 18:03 • 2 months ago

Prisma ORM with TiDB: The Serverless Setup Guide for AI Apps ^{(from PingCAP Blog)}

pKey Takeaways Introduction Prisma is the ORM (Object-Relational Mapper) most teams use for a TypeScript project, and it connects to TiDB through the standard MySQL provider, so a schema written for MySQL works unchanged. The connection is where the work is. Serverless functions and edge runtimes open and discard connections on every invocation, which is […]/p pThe post Prisma ORM with TiDB: [...]

Published Friday, 28. August 2026 16:44 • 2 months ago

Amazon Aurora MySQL 3.13 (compatible with MySQL 8.0.45) is generally available ^{(from AWS What's New)}

pStarting today, Amazon Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition 3 (compatible with MySQL 8.0) supports MySQL 8.0.45, which includes community MySQL fixes and Aurora-specific improvements. For detailed information on this release, refer to Aurora MySQL 3 and MySQL 8.0.45 release notes.br br You can upgrade your databases during scheduled maintenance windows using automatic minor version upgrades. To simplif [...]

Published Friday, 28. August 2026 16:00 • 2 months ago

DBeaver as a MySQL Workbench Replacement : Performance Queries ^{(from Dave's MySQL Stuff)}

p "Hey, Dave! "Is there any way to get the old MySQL Workbench performance information from DBeaver?" An old acquaintance asked me this question this morning. The queries running without an index and the high-cost SQL statement information were what was wanted. /ppYup. The good news is that all that information on the instance's performance is all SQL. And that SQL is pretty s [...]

Published Friday, 28. August 2026 14:56 • 2 months ago

MONyog vs Datadog ^{(from Webyog Blog)}

pA world-class observability platform. But do you need a whole platform just to monitor MySQL? Datadog is one of the best full-stack observability products on the market. It’s also metered […]/p pThe post MONyog vs Datadog appeared first on Webyog./p [...]

Published Friday, 28. August 2026 13:58 • 2 months ago

Build a Deno API Server with MySQL ^{(from Code For Geek)}

Build a Deno API server with MySQL by keeping HTTP handling separate from database work. The handler below rejects an empty name, creates a user, and lists users, while MySQL2 owns parameterized SQL. Install Deno and prepare MySQL Install Deno with the current Deno installation instructions. Deno can import npm packages, including MySQL2, through its […] [...]

Published Friday, 28. August 2026 09:14 • 2 months ago

Implementing Type Contracts via Mutually Referencing Type Parameters ^{(from DoltHub Blog)}

It's not obvious how to properly write generic code that operates on recursive or mutually-recursive types. Here's how to do it right. [...]

Published Friday, 28. August 2026 00:00 • 2 months ago

MySQL 26.7 – Thank you for your contributions! ^{(from The Oracle MySQL Blog)}

The MySQL team would like to thank everyone in the community who contributed bug reports, patches, pull requests, and continued feedback that became part of the MySQL 26.7 release. As always, community contributions help make MySQL better for everyone. In this release, we received contributions across the MySQL Server Optimizer, Parser, Prepared Statements, Performance Schema, […] [...]

Published Thursday, 27. August 2026 17:42 • 2 months ago

IPv6-ready applications with MySQL HeatWave on OCI ^{(from The Oracle MySQL Blog)}

Users can now provision a DB system with an IPv6 address when the selected subnet supports IPv6. Applications can then reach the DB system through its IPv6 primary endpoint. IPv6 connectivity, familiar MySQL Modern cloud applications increasingly use IPv6 to expand address capacity, simplify large network estates, and support long-term infrastructure modernization. Yet a single […] [...]

Published Thursday, 27. August 2026 15:24 • 2 months ago

Performance Progression of Percona Server for MySQL 8.4 ^{(from Percona Database Blog)}

p1. Purpose and scope This performance investigation aims to look into the read/write performance of Percona Server for MySQL 8.4 and how it changed between versions released in 2026: 8.4.8-8 released on 12 March 2026 8.4.10-10 released on 30 June 2026 8.4.11-11 released on 20 August 2026 We want to see if there are improvements … Continued/p pThe post Performance Progression of Percona Serve [...]

Published Thursday, 27. August 2026 13:07 • 2 months ago

Will AI agents replace database IDEs? The future of database development ^{(from Devart MySQL Tool Blog)}

pAI agents can already write SQL, inspect schemas, and work through multi-step database tasks. But what happens when they start acting inside the database itself. Read the full article to see where that shift leads, what still needs human control, and how database IDEs fit into the picture./p pThe post Will AI agents replace database IDEs? The future of database development appeared first on Devar [...]

Published Thursday, 27. August 2026 11:15 • 2 months ago

MySQL CPU and CSPU Versioning for More Frequent Security Updates ^{(from The Oracle MySQL Blog)}

Oracle plans to move MySQL security updates toward a monthly cadence, supplementing the current quarterly Critical Patch Update (CPU) schedule. These monthly Critical Security Patch Update (CSPU) releases will be issued only when needed to address critical security or stability issues; they are not a fixed monthly release commitment. These CSPU releases will focus on […] [...]

Published Wednesday, 26. August 2026 18:50 • 2 months ago

Managed Database Services for Martech Platforms (2026) ^{(from Mydbops Blog)}

Managed database services for martech platforms: replica lag in send windows, PCI-DSS and GDPR gaps, and polyglot MySQL, MongoDB and Cassandra scaling. [...]

Published Wednesday, 26. August 2026 15:58 • 2 months ago

Announcing VillageSQL Server 0.0.6 ^{(from VillageSQL)}

VillageSQL Server 0.0.6 is now available. This release advances the mainline to MySQL Server 8.4.11 and adds support for MySQL Server 9.7.2 and Percona Server 8.4.10. [...]

Published Wednesday, 26. August 2026 12:00 • 2 months ago

DuckDB Speed on MySQL with dbtrail, Without a New Storage Engine ^{(from Percona Community Blog)}

Two recent posts on the Percona blog caught my attention. In Replicating from InnoDB into a DuckDB storage engine and The DuckDB MySQL engine at 500 GB, Evgeniy Patlan wired DuckDB into mysqld as a storage engine, pointed row-based replication at it, and measured it at TPC-H scale factor 500. The numbers are striking: loads 25 times faster than InnoDB, one fifth of the disk, and the full 22-query T [...]

Published Wednesday, 26. August 2026 11:00 • 2 months ago

Postgres + ClickHouse Architectural Patterns ^{(from Severalnines Blog)}

pThe role of databases has shifted significantly as modern applications must deliver real-time analytics, dashboards, and machine learning alongside low-latency transaction processing. Handling these diverse demands with a single relational database has become unsustainable under growing data volumes. Consequently, organizations are adopting specialized database architectures where multiple engines [...]

Published Wednesday, 26. August 2026 08:08 • 2 months 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 Tuesday, 25. August 2026 14:19 • 2 months ago

MariaDB Server 12.3, 11.8, 11.4 and 10.11 – Q3 2026 Maintenance Releases, and Goodbye 10.6 ^{(from MariaDB Foundation Blog)}

pMariaDB Server maintenance releases are here!br On August 24, we released updates for our four currently maintained Long Term Support series:br As usual, these maintenance releases include bug fixes, stability improvements, and ongoing work across MariaDB Server. … /p pContinue reading \"MariaDB Server 12.3, 11.8, 11.4 and 10.11 – Q3 2026 Maintenance Releases, and Goodbye 10.6\"/p pMariaDB S [...]

Published Tuesday, 25. August 2026 12:14 • 2 months ago

MariaDB Contribution Statistics, January-June 2026 ^{(from MariaDB Foundation Blog)}

pAfter a long break, I will be taking over reporting on the contributions. FYI, the last one was done in Jan 2025.br Just like last time, I’m going to start with a breakdown of all the organizations who have contributed to MariaDB Server during the above period. … /p pContinue reading \"MariaDB Contribution Statistics, January-June 2026\"/p pMariaDB Contribution Statistics, January-June [...]

Published Tuesday, 25. August 2026 08:28 • 2 months ago

MySQL Galera Cluster EOL: Your Practical Paths Forward ^{(from Continuent Blog)}

MySQL Galera Cluster reaches end of life on September 30, 2026. This guide compares five practical paths forward - MariaDB Galera Cluster, Percona XtraDB Cluster, self-managed MySQL, managed cloud MySQL and Tungsten Cluster - with the trade-offs, migration effort and long-term risks of each. [...]

Published Tuesday, 25. August 2026 07:18 • 2 months ago

Problems with large tables in Postgres ^{(from PlanetScale Blog)}

Postgres presents pretty predictable performance problems when dealing with large tables. Sharding solves this. [...]

Published Tuesday, 25. August 2026 00:00 • 2 months ago

MariaDB Community Server Q3 2026 maintenance releases ^{(from MariaDB Corporation Blog)}

MariaDB is pleased to announce the immediate availability of MariaDB Community Server 12.3.3, 11.8.9, 11.4.13, and 10.11.19 maintenance releases. See […] [...]

Published Monday, 24. August 2026 23:40 • 2 months ago

Open Weight Models Are Chapter One. The Data Layer Is the Rest of the Book. ^{(from PingCAP Blog)}

pOn July 24, Jensen Huang made the first post of his life on X. It wasn’t a product launch or a victory lap. It was a policy letter signed by 25 companies, doubling to 50 within a day, asking Washington not to restrict open weight AI models. Microsoft, Meta, IBM, a16z, and Hugging Face. The […]/p pThe post Open Weight Models Are Chapter One. The Data Layer Is the Rest of the Book. appeared fi [...]

Published Monday, 24. August 2026 20:29 • 2 months ago

Amazon RDS for MySQL now supports new minor version 8.4.11 ^{(from AWS What's New)}

pStarting today, Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MySQL supports MySQL minor version 8.4.11, the latest minor released by community MySQL. In addition to operational improvements, MySQL 8.4.11 introduces support for post-quantum TLS (PQ-TLS) key exchange, providing you with post-quantum cryptography options for encrypting your data in-transit. We recommend upgrading to the newer [...]

Published Monday, 24. August 2026 08:41 • 2 months ago

The history of Postgres sharding ^{(from PlanetScale Blog)}

Why has it taken so long to get good Postgres sharding? The last 20 years are the answer. [...]

Published Monday, 24. August 2026 00:00 • 2 months ago

Nine servers, one connection type, different answers ^{(from LibreDB Studio (Engine MySQL))}

MariaDB, Percona, TiDB, Vitess and five more arrive through the same MySQL connection, and protocol compatibility is not capability compatibility. [...]

Published Sunday, 23. August 2026 09:00 • 2 months ago

MySQL 26.7 Moves the Thread Pool Plugin to Community Edition ^{(from MinervaDB Blog)}

MySQL 26.7 moved the Thread Pool plugin to Community edition. As of the 26.7.0 Innovation release (GA 2026-07-31), the MySQL Thread Pool — the connection-handling model Oracle reserved for MySQL Enterprise Edition for roughly fifteen [...] [...]

Published Saturday, 22. August 2026 08:43 • 2 months ago

MySQL Galera Cluster EOL: Your Decision Runway and What It Costs to Wait ^{(from Continuent Blog)}

MySQL Galera Cluster maintenance ends September 30, 2026, while MySQL 8.0 has already reached end of life. Learn what these overlapping lifecycle changes mean, what risks increase after support ends, and what teams should decide before the Galera EOL deadline. [...]

Published Friday, 21. August 2026 07:55 • 2 months ago

August 2026 MySQL Contributor Summit and Inaugural MySQL Steering Committee Members ^{(from The Oracle MySQL Blog)}

The MySQL community gathered once again for the second MySQL Contributor Summit of 2026, held August 5–6 as a hybrid event from Broomfield, Colorado. Building on the momentum of the inaugural summit in May, MySQL contributors from across the MySQL ecosystem came together to share ideas, review technical proposals, and collaborate on the future of MySQL. Over two […] [...]

Published Thursday, 20. August 2026 15:37 • 2 months ago

MySQL Connection Pooling: What It Is and Why Your Application Needs It ^{(from Webyog Blog)}

pFew MySQL errors are as disruptive as this one: ERROR 1040 (HY000): Too many connections Your database is running. Your server has RAM to spare. Yet MySQL is refusing new […]/p pThe post MySQL Connection Pooling: What It Is and Why Your Application Needs It appeared first on Webyog./p [...]

Published Thursday, 20. August 2026 10:13 • 2 months ago

13 best practices for database development in Visual Studio 2026 ^{(from Devart MySQL Tool Blog)}

pVisual Studio 2026 ships SQL projects through SSDT, and only the original project format. Here is how to configure, validate, version, deploy, and drift-check a database project without discovering the gaps during a release./p pThe post 13 best practices for database development in Visual Studio 2026 appeared first on Devart Blog./p [...]

Published Thursday, 20. August 2026 06:55 • 2 months ago

The curious case of timezone inconsistencies between PgBouncer and Patroni Cluster ^{(from Percona Community Blog)}

I would like to introduce here the curious case that I had on a Patroni Cluster in production, after a migration from Oracle, with timezone differences between what was written from an application log and what was set in PostgreSQL. [...]

Published Thursday, 20. August 2026 00:00 • 2 months ago

Introducing the Hosted Dolt REST API ^{(from DoltHub Blog)}

Hosted Dolt now has an official, versioned REST API for creating and managing deployments. It's built on the same OpenAPI contract we used for the DoltHub API v2, so both APIs return the same envelope, the same errors, and the same auth. Here's how to use it. [...]

Published Thursday, 20. August 2026 00:00 • 2 months ago

My Journey from Traditional Monolithic Architecture to Distributed SQL ^{(from PingCAP Blog)}

pAs a database veteran, I found traditional monolithic databases (such as Oracle) to have bottlenecks for mission critical applications in the cloud, which called for a next generation cloud native database to solve these challenges. This is what excited me about joining the PingCAP team, where we took the core concept of Distributed SQL’s multi-node auto-sharding architecture and extended it to al [...]

Published Wednesday, 19. August 2026 18:57 • 2 months ago

Aligning MySQL Extensions with Existing Component Services ^{(from VillageSQL)}

The VillageSQL Extension Framework now lets developers directly consume MySQL component services within their extensions. [...]

Published Wednesday, 19. August 2026 17:37 • 2 months ago

Security Advisory: Privileged ClickHouse access through the Grafana data source in PMM ^{(from Percona Database Blog)}

pDate of release: 19 August 2026 Severity: High Affected product: PMM Impacted versions: 3.9.0 and below Summary Percona has recently been made aware of a security vulnerability affecting PMM. We take the security of our products and the protection of our customers’ data with the utmost seriousness. This advisory describes the vulnerability, the immediate steps … Continued/p pThe post S [...]

Published Wednesday, 19. August 2026 13:07 • 2 months ago

Postgres pioneer credits Oracle with helping his database take over the world ^{(from The Register)}

Big Red's acquisition of MySQL sent users running toward the open source alternative, says Michael Stonebraker [...]

Published Wednesday, 19. August 2026 12:37 • 2 months ago

Stop guessing at gcache: inspect Galera/PXC write sets with gcache-inspector ^{(from Percona Database Blog)}

pThe common practice is to size the Galera Cache based on write volume measured during peak load, but often it is more of a guesswork. The writeset cache capacity planning is crucial to shorten the maintenance time and avoid long state transfers while the cluster runs with reduced compute power. Now, if you could understand … Continued/p pThe post Stop guessing at gcache: inspect Galera/PXC w [...]

Published Wednesday, 19. August 2026 08:23 • 2 months ago

“If GitHub was stable, these alternatives would not be as interesting”: Cursor launches Origin as GitHub goes dark ^{(from The New Stack)}

♦pCursor has officially thrown its hat into the code-hosting ring with Origin, a Git-compatible platform built for a world where/p pThe post “If GitHub was stable, these alternatives would not be as interesting”: Cursor launches Origin as GitHub goes dark appeared first on The New Stack./p [...]

Published Tuesday, 18. August 2026 19:47 • 2 months ago

DuckDB 2.0 coming this fall with client/server mode ^{(from InfoWorld)}

pDuckDB, the analytics database with high-end features in a single easily deployed binary, is due to release a major update, version 2.0, this fall./p pIn a blog post on the DuckDB site, the project’s maintainers outlined several key features that motivated a major version bump. The single biggest is a client/server mode, allowing DuckDB to function both as a compact, in-p [...]

Published Tuesday, 18. August 2026 18:35 • 2 months ago

What a careful MySQL to MariaDB migration still misses ^{(from MariaDB Corporation Blog)}

The MariaDB Migrator announcement post introduced the MySQL-to-MariaDB migration tool and walked through its four modes. This post is about […] [...]

Published Tuesday, 18. August 2026 16:58 • 2 months ago

Help Test the MySQL Upgrade Advisor: A Community Upgrade-Planning Wizard for MySQL Shell ^{(from The Oracle MySQL Blog)}

Choosing how to upgrade a MySQL database is rarely just a question of source and target versions. The best approach can depend on database size, storage engines, replication topology, available infrastructure, acceptable downtime, backup readiness, application compatibility, and rollback requirements. A small standalone database with a long maintenance window may be a good candidate for […] [...]

Published Tuesday, 18. August 2026 14:44 • 2 months ago

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

pMariaDB Foundation is delighted to welcome Seravo as a Silver Sponsor, turning a long-standing relationship in the open-source ecosystem into formal support for the future of MariaDB. … /p pContinue reading \"Seravo becomes a Silver Sponsor of MariaDB Foundation\"/p pSeravo becomes a Silver Sponsor of MariaDB Foundation appeared first on MariaDB.org/p [...]

Published Tuesday, 18. August 2026 13:35 • 2 months ago

Village News: MySQL News + Events (18 August 2026) ^{(from VillageSQL)}

A curated roundup of August 2026's top MySQL and open-source database news, featuring MySQL 9.7 updates, Postgres, and upcoming global events. [...]

Published Tuesday, 18. August 2026 12:00 • 2 months ago

MariaDB 12.3 LTS Webinar: Performance, Scalability, High Availability & the AI-Native Database ^{(from MinervaDB Blog)}

Our MariaDB 12.3 LTS webinar is now available as a free PDF download. Over 60 minutes, Shiv Iyer — Founder & CEO of MinervaDB and a database engineer who has spent three decades inside MySQL, [...] [...]

Published Tuesday, 18. August 2026 10:45 • 2 months ago

MySQL Community Edition Vulnerability Advisory: August 2026 ^{(from One-Time MySQL Posts)}

This page provides a view of the vulnerabilities addressed in MySQL Community Edition in the August 2026 Oracle MySQL Critical Security Patch Update. For this page, “MySQL Community Edition” means Community-distributed MySQL products. Only rows that map to Community-distributed components are included here. [...]

Published Tuesday, 18. August 2026 00:00 • 2 months ago

Fixing Old Software Bugs Without Thinking ^{(from Ronald Bradford Blog)}

I previously came across an issue in my benchmarking work where I relied on the Latency Histogram section of sysbench output. On Linux it worked fine — I generally ran my workload there, so it never mattered. [...]

Published Tuesday, 18. August 2026 00:00 • 2 months ago

Percona University Comes to Uruguay ^{(from Percona Database Blog)}

pPercona University is coming to Montevideo. On September 23rd, 2026, we’re getting together for a full day of technical talks on open source software, and you are invited! If you work or study with open source software in Uruguay, this one is for you. It’s a whole day of learning, with the people who build … Continued/p pThe post Percona University Comes to Uruguay appeared first [...]

Published Monday, 17. August 2026 16:34 • 2 months ago

MariaDB High Availability: Maximum Availability Solutions in MariaDB 12.3 LTS ^{(from MinervaDB Blog)}

MariaDB high availability reached a new baseline with MariaDB Server 12.3 LTS, GA on 2026-05-29 as version 12.3.2. For the first time, a MariaDB LTS release ships parallel replication between Galera Clusters (MDEV-20065), closing the [...] [...]

Published Monday, 17. August 2026 11:03 • 2 months ago

What is a data topology? ^{(from PlanetScale Blog)}

A data topology describes the sharding scheme a Neki router uses to map logical PostgreSQL tables to physical shards and route queries. [...]

Published Monday, 17. August 2026 00:00 • 2 months ago

Curating DuckDB Datasets Leveraging AI ^{(from Ronald Bradford Blog)}

In Curated MySQL Data Sets for Realistic Testing I described datasets assembled the manual way — download, schema, load, validate, document — over hours or days per source. This post is the follow-up I promised: what changes when AI assists the same workflow, using DuckDB as the target engine and GeoNames as the first example. [...]

Published Monday, 17. August 2026 00:00 • 2 months ago

Extending MariaDB with Native Aggregate Plugins: Laying the Groundwork for HyperLogLog ^{(from MariaDB Foundation Blog)}

pMariaDB already allows developers to add new Pluggable Data Types and scalar Plugin Functions. One missing piece has been Pluggable Aggregate Functions operating on PDTs. That matters for functionality such as HyperLogLog, where an extension needs to aggregate values into a custom statistical sketch while preserving its native SQL type. … /p pContinue reading \"Extending MariaDB with Native [...]

Published Sunday, 16. August 2026 16:00 • 2 months ago

Why INSERT IGNORE should not be used ^{(from Ronald Bradford Blog)}

Let’s say you’re building a reference table from source data, e.g. a silver medallion table from a primary source. In this example I am using a file of random locations on the globe extracted from OpenStreetMap (OSM) as my primary source. [...]

Published Sunday, 16. August 2026 00:00 • 2 months ago

What Constitutes Clean Data? ^{(from Ronald Bradford Blog)}

Clean data is one of those terms everyone uses and few define precisely. Row counts match? No nulls in key columns? Values within expected ranges? All useful checks — and all insufficient once you move from a table view to a visualization view. [...]

Published Saturday, 15. August 2026 00:00 • 2 months ago

MariaDB InnoDB Disk Space & Fragmentation ^{(from lefred's blog)}

As a DBA, disk space has always worried me. In fact, the biggest problem for a MySQL/MariaDB DBA is the large, fragmented InnoDB Tablespaces. It was even more problematic when a single tablespace handled everything. But even with a tablespace per table (innodb_file_per_table=ON) fragmentation on large tables can still be an issue and waste disk […] [...]

Published Friday, 14. August 2026 22:07 • 2 months ago

MariaDB Foundation Advances TAF with HammerDB 6.0 and xt_reservoir Integration ^{(from MariaDB Foundation Blog)}

pOverviewbr While validating MariaDB RSS stability under stored procedure workloads, I ran into unexpected memory growth. The goal was straightforward: confirm that MariaDB was not leaking memory when running TPROC-C stored procedure workloads. … /p pContinue reading \"MariaDB Foundation Advances TAF with HammerDB 6.0 and xt_reservoir Integration\"/p pMariaDB Foundation Advances TAF with Hamm [...]

Published Friday, 14. August 2026 15:48 • 2 months ago

More Control, More Visibility: Deferred Maintenance & Events in MySQL HeatWave ^{(from The Oracle MySQL Blog)}

MySQL HeatWave now offers more control and transparency around maintenance. With Deferred Maintenance and Maintenance Events, customers can better align database maintenance with their business schedules and operational processes to reduce disruption. Customers can now temporarily disable disruptive maintenance which requires system reboots. To ensure the ongoing security of customer environments, [...]

Published Friday, 14. August 2026 15:05 • 2 months ago

With performance_schema off, MySQL metrics are absent not zero ^{(from LibreDB Studio (Engine MySQL))}

Cache hit ratio, queries per second and buffer-pool usage are omitted rather than defaulted, and two more figures mean less than their names suggest. [...]

Published Friday, 14. August 2026 09:00 • 2 months ago

What's New With Golang Generics ^{(from DoltHub Blog)}

Go is conservative with adding new features, but it does happen. Generics were new once. Here's some ways that generics have evolved in recent versions, and how Dolt incorporates them. [...]

Published Friday, 14. August 2026 00:00 • 2 months ago

Curated MySQL Data Sets for Realistic Testing ^{(from Ronald Bradford Blog)}

Synthetic benchmarks have their place, but I have always preferred working with real data. Not client production data — that stays private — but publicly available datasets that reflect the messy shapes, skewed distributions, and indexing challenges you encounter in the wild. [...]

Published Friday, 14. August 2026 00:00 • 2 months ago

MariaDB Community Server 10.6.28 now available ^{(from MariaDB Corporation Blog)}

MariaDB is pleased to announce the immediate availability of the MariaDB Community Server 10.6.28 maintenance release. This is the final […] [...]

Published Thursday, 13. August 2026 20:30 • 2 months ago

More to Explore: What’s New on Planet MySQL ^{(from The Oracle MySQL Blog)}

Planet MySQL has always been about discovering what’s happening across the MySQL community. Now, there’s even more to explore. We’ve added new ways to discover the projects and products that make up the broader MySQL ecosystem, find upcoming MySQL events, and search the wealth of content shared by the community. At the center of these […] [...]

Published Thursday, 13. August 2026 18:17 • 2 months ago

Replicating from InnoDB into a DuckDB storage engine ^{(from Percona Database Blog)}

pOur first post showed MySQL 9.7 with one change: mark a table ENGINE=DuckDB and its analytical queries run in DuckDB instead of InnoDB. The question we kept getting after that was about replication. Can you keep a normal InnoDB primary for the writes, and run a replica where the big tables are ENGINE=DuckDB? Then the … Continued/p pThe post Replicating from InnoDB into a DuckDB storage engin [...]

Published Thursday, 13. August 2026 17:23 • 2 months ago

MySQL Database Security: A 12-PointChecklist for 2026 ^{(from Webyog Blog)}

pDatabase misconfigurations are among the most common causes of data breaches — and most of them are preventable. The majority of MySQL security improvements are straightforward, do not require specialized […]/p pThe post MySQL Database Security: A 12-PointChecklist for 2026 appeared first on Webyog./p [...]

Published Thursday, 13. August 2026 12:40 • 2 months ago

MariaDB 13.1 Feature in Focus: JSON Operators and JSON_TABLE Improvements ^{(from lefred's blog)}

MariaDB 13.1 introduces the long-awaited `-` and `-` JSON operators, together with `FORMAT JSON` support in `JSON_TABLE()`. Discover how these improvements simplify JSON queries, preserve nested objects and arrays, and improve compatibility with MySQL applications. [...]

Published Thursday, 13. August 2026 09:50 • 2 months ago

Planet for the MySQL Community

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

Monday, 12. October 2026

Community Spotlight: Slava Rozhnev and SQLtest.online (from MariaDB Foundation Blog)

Migrations to MariaDB from MySQL Now Easier Than Ever: Open Source MariaDB Migrator Tool Reaches GA (from MariaDB Corporation Blog)

Automated blocking and query alerts for Amazon RDS for SQL Server (from AWS Database Blog)

Thread Pool in Percona Server and MySQL (Part 2) (from Percona Database Blog)

FOSS 2026 conference in Chernihiv: how it went (from Percona Community Blog)

Meet MySQL 26.7: A New Versioning Era Begins (from Percona Database Blog)

Docker DBA Lab (from Percona Community Blog)

Six connections and a long queue: how a TLS-inspecting proxy quietly turned HTTP/2 into HTTP/1.1 (from Ronald Bradford Blog)

Saturday, 10. October 2026

In MariaDB 13.0, new-style optimizer hints go beyond MySQL’s (from Sergei Petrunia's blog)

Friday, 09. October 2026

MySQL Workbench 26.7 (from Dave's MySQL Stuff)

Large TPC-C Analysis with MySQL v26.7.0 on InnoDB and TidesDB (from TidesDB Blog)

PGO or not PGO this is the dilemma. Step 3 (from Percona Database Blog)

PGO or not PGO this is the dilemma. Step 2 (from Percona Database Blog)

PGO or not PGO this is the dilemma. Step 1 (from Percona Database Blog)

Welcome to PGConf.EU Valencia! (from Percona Community Blog)

Keys and Values Don't Always Belong Together (from TidesDB Blog)

Thursday, 08. October 2026

Step by Step: ProxySQL HA with BGP ECMP Anycast (from Percona Community Blog)

Your Galera cluster’s hardest problem was never the replication library (from Percona Database Blog)

Building a Public Performance Change Detection Library for MariaDB (from MariaDB Foundation Blog)

Open Source milestone – MariaDB’sEcosystem hub hits 200 solutions (from MariaDB Foundation Blog)

Redis by proxy: Percona targets the last major hurdle to Valkey adoption (from The New Stack)

Time Travel for MySQL: Recovering One Row Shouldn't Take All Night (from OurSQL Foundation Blog)

Wednesday, 07. October 2026

Adobe Commerce and MariaDB: How the Database Shift Supports Peak Trading and Agentic AI (from MariaDB Corporation Blog)

Using TidesDB as a Cache (from TidesDB Blog)

Laravel 13 now supports MariaDB Vector natively (from MariaDB Foundation Blog)

Making Sense of MySQL Telemetry Metrics (from The Oracle MySQL Blog)

What today's software owes to Bronze Age clocks (from PlanetScale Blog)

Tuesday, 06. October 2026

Solving SIEM Data Gravity: How to Cut Ingest Costs Without Losing a Single Security Event (from MariaDB Corporation Blog)

Why MySQL Bug Fixes Can Differ Across LTS Releases (from The Oracle MySQL Blog)

Beyond synthetic testing: Capturing and replaying real database workloads at Airbnb (from Airbnb Tech Blog)

Inside the Mind of a MySQL Rockstar: Matthias Crauwels on Community, Culture, and Open Source First (from ODBMS.org)

DBTrail: Analytical Reports on Your MySQL Data, Without Running Them on MySQL – Part 1 (from Percona Database Blog)

Why Open Source Still Matters When Agents Write the Code (from PingCAP Blog)

Percona ClusterSync for MongoDB 1.0.0 is Generally Available (from Percona Database Blog)

Village News: MySQL News + Events (6 October 2026) (from VillageSQL)

What Is Running on My MongoDB Right Now? Real-Time Analytics in PMM (from Percona Database Blog)

Frappe joins MariaDB Foundation as a Silver Sponsor (from MariaDB Foundation Blog)

Monday, 05. October 2026

Movie Finder: semantic search over 1M films, inside MySQL (from AskDba)

MariaDB Foundation Adds PostgreSQL to Its Engine‑Agnostic Testing Framework (TAF). (from MariaDB Foundation Blog)

AWS Advanced Ruby Driver Wrapper is generally available (from AWS What's New)

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

PGO or not PGO this is the dilemma. Step 3 (from TusaCentral - MySQL Blogs)

PGO or not PGO this is the dilemma. Step 2 (from TusaCentral - MySQL Blogs)

PGO or not PGO this is the dilemma. Step 1 (from TusaCentral - MySQL Blogs)

Migrating a 500 GB Production MariaDB Database from Amazon RDS to EC2, With a Rollback Path (from MariaDB Foundation Blog)

Thread Pool in Percona Server and MySQL (Part 1) (from Percona Database Blog)

TidesDB now available for MySQL v9, v26 (from TidesDB Blog)

Finding Bugs Using Join Implication Reasoning (from DoltHub Blog)

Friday, 02. October 2026

MariaDB Foundation: Auto‑Generated User Properties in TAF 4.0 — The Piece for Ensuring Full Test Reproduction (from MariaDB Foundation Blog)

When AI Finds the Bugs We Missed: A Very Busy Year for MariaDB Security (from MariaDB Foundation Blog)

K3s vs. K8s: When lightweight Kubernetes distros win (and when they don’t) (from The New Stack)

Benchmark Analysis with HammerDB TPROC-C(TPC-C) on TideSQL v5.1.0, InnoDB in MariaDB v11.4.13 (from TidesDB Blog)

MySQL Community Meetups Fall 2026 (from The Oracle MySQL Blog)

Automated Database Failover: Why Homegrown High Availability Struggles At Scale (from Severalnines Blog)

How easy is it to use the VillageSQL MCP extension? (from Ronald Bradford Blog)

Thursday, 01. October 2026

The Database Is the Product: What Breaks When Memory Devices Scale (from PingCAP Blog)

MariaDB Foundation: TAF Now Supports Embedded Database Configuration in User Properties (from MariaDB Foundation Blog)

MariaDB Foundation Newsletter – October 2026 (from MariaDB Foundation Blog)

Tuning Percona ClusterSync for MongoDB Performance (from Percona Database Blog)

Village News: MySQL News + Events (1 October 2026) (from VillageSQL)

AI agents speed up development — data access slows them down (from The New Stack)

Influence Is Not Ownership: Anna Widenius and Kaj Arnö on Governance, Open Source, and the Future of MariaDB (from ODBMS Industry Watch)

Database Reliability Engineering: 6 Proven Steps MinervaDB Runs on Every Engine (from MinervaDB Blog)

Elestio joins MariaDB Foundation as a Silver Sponsor (from MariaDB Foundation Blog)

Designing Neki for performance (from PlanetScale Blog)

Wednesday, 30. September 2026

AWS and AMD bring 5th generation AMD EPYC processors to Amazon Aurora and Amazon RDS (from AWS Database Blog)

Database Infrastructure Partner: 7 Proven Industry Lessons (from MinervaDB Blog)

Amazon Aurora and RDS now support AMD-based R8a instances (from AWS What's New)

Community Spotlight: Slava Rozhnev and SQLtest.online ^{(from MariaDB Foundation Blog)}

Migrations to MariaDB from MySQL Now Easier Than Ever: Open Source MariaDB Migrator Tool Reaches GA ^{(from MariaDB Corporation Blog)}

Automated blocking and query alerts for Amazon RDS for SQL Server ^{(from AWS Database Blog)}

Thread Pool in Percona Server and MySQL (Part 2) ^{(from Percona Database Blog)}

FOSS 2026 conference in Chernihiv: how it went ^{(from Percona Community Blog)}

Meet MySQL 26.7: A New Versioning Era Begins ^{(from Percona Database Blog)}

Docker DBA Lab ^{(from Percona Community Blog)}

Six connections and a long queue: how a TLS-inspecting proxy quietly turned HTTP/2 into HTTP/1.1 ^{(from Ronald Bradford Blog)}

In MariaDB 13.0, new-style optimizer hints go beyond MySQL’s ^{(from Sergei Petrunia's blog)}

MySQL Workbench 26.7 ^{(from Dave's MySQL Stuff)}

Large TPC-C Analysis with MySQL v26.7.0 on InnoDB and TidesDB ^{(from TidesDB Blog)}

PGO or not PGO this is the dilemma. Step 3 ^{(from Percona Database Blog)}

PGO or not PGO this is the dilemma. Step 2 ^{(from Percona Database Blog)}

PGO or not PGO this is the dilemma. Step 1 ^{(from Percona Database Blog)}

Welcome to PGConf.EU Valencia! ^{(from Percona Community Blog)}

Keys and Values Don't Always Belong Together ^{(from TidesDB Blog)}

Step by Step: ProxySQL HA with BGP ECMP Anycast ^{(from Percona Community Blog)}

Your Galera cluster’s hardest problem was never the replication library ^{(from Percona Database Blog)}

Building a Public Performance Change Detection Library for MariaDB ^{(from MariaDB Foundation Blog)}

Open Source milestone – MariaDB’sEcosystem hub hits 200 solutions ^{(from MariaDB Foundation Blog)}

Redis by proxy: Percona targets the last major hurdle to Valkey adoption ^{(from The New Stack)}

Time Travel for MySQL: Recovering One Row Shouldn't Take All Night ^{(from OurSQL Foundation Blog)}

Adobe Commerce and MariaDB: How the Database Shift Supports Peak Trading and Agentic AI ^{(from MariaDB Corporation Blog)}

Using TidesDB as a Cache ^{(from TidesDB Blog)}

Laravel 13 now supports MariaDB Vector natively ^{(from MariaDB Foundation Blog)}

Making Sense of MySQL Telemetry Metrics ^{(from The Oracle MySQL Blog)}

What today's software owes to Bronze Age clocks ^{(from PlanetScale Blog)}

Solving SIEM Data Gravity: How to Cut Ingest Costs Without Losing a Single Security Event ^{(from MariaDB Corporation Blog)}

Why MySQL Bug Fixes Can Differ Across LTS Releases ^{(from The Oracle MySQL Blog)}

Beyond synthetic testing: Capturing and replaying real database workloads at Airbnb ^{(from Airbnb Tech Blog)}

Inside the Mind of a MySQL Rockstar: Matthias Crauwels on Community, Culture, and Open Source First ^{(from ODBMS.org)}

DBTrail: Analytical Reports on Your MySQL Data, Without Running Them on MySQL – Part 1 ^{(from Percona Database Blog)}

Why Open Source Still Matters When Agents Write the Code ^{(from PingCAP Blog)}

Percona ClusterSync for MongoDB 1.0.0 is Generally Available ^{(from Percona Database Blog)}

Village News: MySQL News + Events (6 October 2026) ^{(from VillageSQL)}

What Is Running on My MongoDB Right Now? Real-Time Analytics in PMM ^{(from Percona Database Blog)}

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

Movie Finder: semantic search over 1M films, inside MySQL ^{(from AskDba)}

MariaDB Foundation Adds PostgreSQL to Its Engine‑Agnostic Testing Framework (TAF). ^{(from MariaDB Foundation Blog)}

AWS Advanced Ruby Driver Wrapper is generally available ^{(from AWS What's New)}

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

PGO or not PGO this is the dilemma. Step 3 ^{(from TusaCentral - MySQL Blogs)}

PGO or not PGO this is the dilemma. Step 2 ^{(from TusaCentral - MySQL Blogs)}

PGO or not PGO this is the dilemma. Step 1 ^{(from TusaCentral - MySQL Blogs)}

Migrating a 500 GB Production MariaDB Database from Amazon RDS to EC2, With a Rollback Path ^{(from MariaDB Foundation Blog)}

Thread Pool in Percona Server and MySQL (Part 1) ^{(from Percona Database Blog)}

TidesDB now available for MySQL v9, v26 ^{(from TidesDB Blog)}

Finding Bugs Using Join Implication Reasoning ^{(from DoltHub Blog)}

MariaDB Foundation: Auto‑Generated User Properties in TAF 4.0 — The Piece for Ensuring Full Test Reproduction ^{(from MariaDB Foundation Blog)}

When AI Finds the Bugs We Missed: A Very Busy Year for MariaDB Security ^{(from MariaDB Foundation Blog)}

K3s vs. K8s: When lightweight Kubernetes distros win (and when they don’t) ^{(from The New Stack)}

Benchmark Analysis with HammerDB TPROC-C(TPC-C) on TideSQL v5.1.0, InnoDB in MariaDB v11.4.13 ^{(from TidesDB Blog)}

MySQL Community Meetups Fall 2026 ^{(from The Oracle MySQL Blog)}

Automated Database Failover: Why Homegrown High Availability Struggles At Scale ^{(from Severalnines Blog)}

How easy is it to use the VillageSQL MCP extension? ^{(from Ronald Bradford Blog)}

The Database Is the Product: What Breaks When Memory Devices Scale ^{(from PingCAP Blog)}

MariaDB Foundation: TAF Now Supports Embedded Database Configuration in User Properties ^{(from MariaDB Foundation Blog)}

MariaDB Foundation Newsletter – October 2026 ^{(from MariaDB Foundation Blog)}

Tuning Percona ClusterSync for MongoDB Performance ^{(from Percona Database Blog)}

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

AI agents speed up development — data access slows them down ^{(from The New Stack)}

Influence Is Not Ownership: Anna Widenius and Kaj Arnö on Governance, Open Source, and the Future of MariaDB ^{(from ODBMS Industry Watch)}

Database Reliability Engineering: 6 Proven Steps MinervaDB Runs on Every Engine ^{(from MinervaDB Blog)}

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

Designing Neki for performance ^{(from PlanetScale Blog)}

AWS and AMD bring 5th generation AMD EPYC processors to Amazon Aurora and Amazon RDS ^{(from AWS Database Blog)}

Database Infrastructure Partner: 7 Proven Industry Lessons ^{(from MinervaDB Blog)}

Amazon Aurora and RDS now support AMD-based R8a instances ^{(from AWS What's New)}

MariaDB Foundation: Why Test Case Tags Matter in TAF ^{(from MariaDB Foundation Blog)}

Amazon RDS for MySQL supports MySQL 26.7 in Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment ^{(from AWS What's New)}

MySQL HeatWave Core Capabilities (September 2026) ^{(from MySQL expert Diary)}

Announcing the Public Preview of Reader Endpoint for Azure Database for MySQL ^{(from Azure for MySQL Blog)}

Vector and Full-Text Search Explained: Why AI Agents Need Both ^{(from PingCAP Blog)}

Newsletter #1: What Happened in September 2026 ^{(from OurSQL Foundation Blog)}

MySQL BR Conf 2026 Slides: Managed ProxySQL in Your Own AWS Account ^{(from ProxySQL Blog)}

Nerdearla 2026 Slides: SQL Traffic Routing Without Breaking Consistency ^{(from ProxySQL Blog)}

MariaDB Connector/C 3.4.11, and 3.3.21 now available ^{(from MariaDB Corporation Blog)}

Introducing the MySQL Analytical Replica (Parquet + DuckDB) ^{(from dbtrail Blog)}

Archiving Oracle databases with SIARD Suite ^{(from dbi Blog)}

SQL Plan Binding in TiDB: Fix Plan Regressions Without App Changes ^{(from Mydbops Blog)}