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

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

Published Thursday, 16. July 2026 17:52 • an hour ago

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

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

Published Thursday, 16. July 2026 17:38 • 2 hours ago

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

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

Published Thursday, 16. July 2026 12:45 • 7 hours ago

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

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

Published Thursday, 16. July 2026 12:00 • 7 hours ago

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

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

Published Thursday, 16. July 2026 11:00 • 8 hours ago

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

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

Published Thursday, 16. July 2026 07:22 • 12 hours ago

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

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

Published Thursday, 16. July 2026 07:00 • 12 hours ago

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

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

Published Thursday, 16. July 2026 06:00 • 13 hours ago

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

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

Published Wednesday, 15. July 2026 18:45 • a day ago

Announcing VillageSQL Server 0.0.5 ^{(from VillageSQL)}

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

Published Wednesday, 15. July 2026 18:15 • a day ago

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

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

Published Wednesday, 15. July 2026 17:13 • a day ago

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

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

Published Wednesday, 15. July 2026 17:00 • a day ago

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

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

Published Wednesday, 15. July 2026 14:55 • a day ago

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

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

Published Wednesday, 15. July 2026 12:00 • a day ago

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

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

Published Wednesday, 15. July 2026 09:32 • a day ago

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

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

Published Tuesday, 14. July 2026 14:03 • 2 days ago | Updated Wednesday, 15. July 2026 06:40 • a day ago

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

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

Published Wednesday, 15. July 2026 05:00 • a day ago

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

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

Published Wednesday, 15. July 2026 01:53 • a day ago

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

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

Published Wednesday, 15. July 2026 00:00 • 2 days ago

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

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

Published Tuesday, 14. July 2026 16:04 • 2 days ago

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

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

Published Tuesday, 14. July 2026 10:28 • 2 days ago

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

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

Published Tuesday, 14. July 2026 09:12 • 2 days ago

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

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

Published Tuesday, 14. July 2026 09:12 • 2 days ago

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

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

Published Monday, 13. July 2026 17:44 • 3 days ago

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

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

Published Friday, 03. July 2026 13:15 • 13 days ago | Updated Monday, 13. July 2026 14:38 • 3 days ago

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

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

Published Monday, 13. July 2026 14:38 • 3 days ago | Updated Monday, 13. July 2026 14:38 • 3 days ago

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

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

Published Monday, 13. July 2026 12:24 • 3 days ago

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

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

Published Monday, 13. July 2026 11:48 • 3 days ago

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

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

Published Monday, 13. July 2026 05:15 • 4 days ago

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

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

Published Monday, 13. July 2026 00:00 • 4 days ago

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

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

Published Monday, 13. July 2026 00:00 • 4 days ago

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

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

Published Saturday, 11. July 2026 17:29 • 5 days ago

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

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

Published Friday, 10. July 2026 19:15 • 6 days ago

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

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

Published Friday, 10. July 2026 13:38 • 6 days ago

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

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

Published Friday, 10. July 2026 04:29 • 7 days ago

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

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

Published Friday, 10. July 2026 00:00 • 7 days ago

TiDB ^{(from ODBMS.org)}

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

Published Thursday, 09. July 2026 19:34 • 7 days ago

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

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

Published Thursday, 09. July 2026 18:05 • 7 days ago

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

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

Published Thursday, 09. July 2026 16:00 • 7 days ago

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

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

Published Thursday, 09. July 2026 13:20 • 7 days ago

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

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

Published Thursday, 09. July 2026 13:14 • 7 days ago

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

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

Published Thursday, 09. July 2026 04:42 • 8 days ago

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

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

Published Wednesday, 08. July 2026 20:24 • 8 days ago

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

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

Published Wednesday, 08. July 2026 20:07 • 8 days ago

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

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

Published Wednesday, 08. July 2026 14:18 • 8 days ago

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

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

Published Wednesday, 08. July 2026 05:41 • 9 days ago

Deadlocks and downtime ^{(from PlanetScale Blog)}

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

Published Wednesday, 08. July 2026 00:00 • 9 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++ 1.1.8 and 1.0.7 and MariaDB Connector/ODBC 3.2.9 and 3.1.23. […] [...]

Published Tuesday, 07. July 2026 15:23 • 9 days ago

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

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

Published Tuesday, 07. July 2026 14:32 • 9 days ago

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

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

Published Tuesday, 07. July 2026 13:19 • 9 days ago

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

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

Published Tuesday, 07. July 2026 13:01 • 9 days ago

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

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

Published Tuesday, 07. July 2026 10:55 • 9 days ago

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

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

Published Tuesday, 07. July 2026 04:18 • 10 days ago

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

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

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

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

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

Published Monday, 06. July 2026 08:33 • 10 days ago

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

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

Published Friday, 03. July 2026 16:58 • 13 days ago

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

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

Published Friday, 03. July 2026 14:07 • 13 days ago

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

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

Published Friday, 03. July 2026 14:04 • 13 days ago

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

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

Published Friday, 03. July 2026 12:38 • 13 days ago

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

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

Published Friday, 03. July 2026 08:30 • 13 days ago

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

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

Published Friday, 03. July 2026 05:07 • 14 days ago

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

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

Published Friday, 03. July 2026 04:43 • 14 days ago

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

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

Published Friday, 03. July 2026 04:42 • 14 days ago

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

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

Published Thursday, 02. July 2026 21:58 • 14 days ago

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

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

Published Thursday, 02. July 2026 18:29 • 14 days ago

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

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

Published Thursday, 02. July 2026 18:05 • 14 days ago

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

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

Published Wednesday, 03. June 2026 17:31 • 1 months ago | Updated Thursday, 02. July 2026 15:47 • 14 days ago

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

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

Published Tuesday, 30. June 2026 16:33 • 16 days ago | Updated Thursday, 02. July 2026 15:47 • 14 days ago

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

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

Published Thursday, 02. July 2026 08:01 • 14 days ago

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

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

Published Wednesday, 01. July 2026 20:25 • 15 days ago

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Published Wednesday, 01. July 2026 13:05 • 15 days ago

Building a Modern Analytics Stack Around ClickHouse ^{(from Severalnines Blog)}

pHistorically, relational databases did double duty. The same PostgreSQL / MySQL instance that handled your application’s writes also answered your business questions. A well-indexed schema, a few GROUP BY reports, done. And that works, right up until it doesn’t: the reports get slower, the dashboards start eating the same I/O budget as the application; or, […]/p pThe post Buildin [...]

Published Wednesday, 01. July 2026 10:35 • 15 days ago

MariaDB Server Plugins: disabled functions ^{(from lefred's blog)}

During the last MariaDB Foundation Board Meeting (24 June 2026), Barry shared how it can be difficult to deploy an upgrade immediately and that they sometimes have to wait for one that fixes security bugs. Wait for the validation, wait for the fix, and the release. Even if the MariaDB engineers are doing incredible work, […] [...]

Published Wednesday, 01. July 2026 05:50 • 16 days ago

MySQL Workbench to DBeaver Transition ^{(from Dave's MySQL Stuff)}

p First, there were the MySQL Query Browser and the MySQL Administrator, collectively known as the MySQL GUI Tool Bundle. But they were given End-of-Life status in 2009. Next was MySQL Workbench, but that tool is now EOL as well./p♦MySQL Workbench provides a warning if youbrtry to use it with later versions of MySQL.brbr You could still run Workbench, but it will grumble if you try to use [...]

Published Tuesday, 30. June 2026 18:53 • 16 days ago

Manage long-running transactions for AWS DMS performance ^{(from AWS Database Blog)}

In this post, we show you how long-running transactions affect AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) change data capture (CDC) latency, walk through monitoring approaches for Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and SQL Server, and provide ready-to-use scripts to identify and resolve problematic transactions before they impact your replication performance. [...]

Published Tuesday, 30. June 2026 16:29 • 16 days ago

MySQL DBAs Are Landing Six-Figure Jobs in This Economy. And You Can Too! ^{(from Webyog Blog)}

pThere’s a narrative floating around tech circles that database administrators are being replaced — by the cloud,by automation, by AI. It’s a story worth examining carefully, because the hiring data […]/p pThe post MySQL DBAs Are Landing Six-Figure Jobs in This Economy. And You Can Too! appeared first on Webyog./p [...]

Published Tuesday, 30. June 2026 15:00 • 16 days ago

The Galera Crossroads: Why PXC is the Lifeline for MariaDB Community Users ^{(from TusaCentral - MySQL Blogs)}

Or: Surviving the Codership Acquisition Without Losing Your Cluster Why this long post? pRecently, the database landscape shifted significantly when MariaDB plc absorbed Codership. If you aren't familiar, Codership is the c♦ompany that introduced the Galera library and the WSREP API to MySQL, creating the first virtually synchronous replication solution for the MySQL ecosystem. For years, they prod [...]

Published Tuesday, 30. June 2026 14:11 • 16 days ago

Community Docker Images: keeping the operator open without a vendor registry lock-in ^{(from Percona Database Blog)}

pPostgreSQL community images address a real gap in how a Kubernetes database operator earns your trust. Running a database operator on Kubernetes means trusting two things: the code, and the container images the operator pulls. The code is on GitHub, easy to inspect, easy to fork. The container images, the registry that hosts them, and the … Continued/p pThe post Community Docker Images: keep [...]

Published Tuesday, 30. June 2026 14:09 • 16 days ago

Debugging with Ephemeral Containers ^{(from Percona Database Blog)}

pDebugging applications in Kubernetes can be tricky. Containers are designed to be small, immutable, and purpose-built. That is great for production, but not always ideal when something breaks. Many production images are minimal or distroless. They may not include tools that are useful for troubleshooting. In some cases, the application container may already be crashing, … Continued/p pThe po [...]

Published Tuesday, 30. June 2026 13:52 • 16 days ago

Why I haven’t run my databases on Kubernetes ^{(from Percona Database Blog)}

pA few years ago, if there was a discussion on “Should we run databases on Kubernetes?”, there were more people saying no than yes. One of the common answers was, “No. Kubernetes is for stateless workloads. Keep your databases outside.” Thankfully, today the discussion is no longer about whether we should run databases on Kubernetes, … Continued/p pThe post Why I haven’t run my database [...]

Published Tuesday, 30. June 2026 12:48 • 16 days ago

^{(from Mikael Ronstrom)}

!DOCTYPE html Experiences from the new wave of AI programming /* General typography for local preview. Blogger applies its own theme to the body content; the styling is intentionally simple so it survives a paste into Blogger's HTML view. */ body { max-width: 760px; margin: 2rem auto; padding: 0 1rem; font-family: -apple-system, Segoe UI, Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-s [...]

Published Tuesday, 30. June 2026 11:54 • 16 days ago

Building Smart Semantic Search using PostgreSQL and pgvector. Part 3 - Hybrid Search, Percona Blog, and Widget Improvements ^{(from Percona Community Blog)}

Here I write about what I changed after the first launch: hybrid search, filters and counts on the search page, the widget layout, indexer hardening, and the Percona Blog in the index. People often type short words or names, and pure vector search is weak at that. When I turned search on about a month ago I asked for feedback in Part 1, and most of what follows came from that. [...]

Published Tuesday, 30. June 2026 11:00 • 16 days ago

^{(from Mikael Ronstrom)}

!DOCTYPE html RonSQL: a new SQL engine for RonDB with predictable low latency and CTEs /* General typography for local preview. Blogger applies its own theme to the body content; the code blocks below also carry inline styles so they render correctly even if this block is stripped on paste. */ body { max-width: 760px; margin: 2rem auto; padding: 0 1rem; font-family: -ap [...]

Published Tuesday, 30. June 2026 10:07 • 16 days ago

The Database Is No Longer Storage - It Is Becoming the Runtime for AI ^{(from siddontang on Medium)}

pWhy agent workloads move databases from passive storage into execution infrastructure./ppThis is Part 5 of a series, and also the final part./ppPart 1: SaaS is Dead - The Rise of Result as a Service/ppPart 2: When Databases Start Eating Software - The Paradigm Shift in the AI Era/ppPart 3: Database as the Runtime Layer for AI Agents - Why Storage Is No Longer Enough/ppPart 4: The End of SaaS - Exc [...]

Published Tuesday, 30. June 2026 01:06 • 17 days ago

Producing IQR and Outlier statistics with SQL ^{(from Ronald Bradford Blog)}

The interquartile range (IQR) measures the spread of the middle 50% of a distribution — the distance between the first quartile (Q1) and the third quartile (Q3). Combined with Tukey’s 1. [...]

Published Tuesday, 30. June 2026 00:00 • 17 days ago

TiDB Completes Independent Security Assessment by NCC Group ^{(from PingCAP Blog)}

pWhen enterprises evaluate a distributed SQL database for production workloads, security isn’t a checkbox. It’s a prerequisite. Teams running financial transactions, customer data, and AI agent infrastructure need to know that the database they depend on holds up under independent scrutiny, not just internal testing. That’s why TiDB engaged NCC Group, a global cybersecurity consultancy, […]/p [...]

Published Monday, 29. June 2026 20:06 • 17 days ago

Skipping Percona Server for MySQL 8.4.9 and 9.7.0 ^{(from Percona Database Blog)}

pUpdate, July 1, 2026: Percona Server for MySQL 8.4.10-10 is now available. It carries the content originally planned for 8.4.9 plus the upstream security fixes. See the 8.4.10-10 release notes. 9.7.1 is still on the way; we’ll link its release notes here when it ships. Upstream MySQL published an out-of-schedule release this week with two … Continued/p pThe post Skipping Percona Server [...]

Published Monday, 29. June 2026 15:19 • 17 days ago

Oracle promises greater community involvement in MySQL ^{(from Techzine)}

Oracle has announced a new governance model for MySQL, including a technical steering committee and community contributor roles. The move follows months of pressure from the MySQL community. However, the OurSQL Foundation, which formed to flag the issues users have, says Oracle has yet to make binding commitments about who truly controls the database’s future. […] [...]

Published Monday, 29. June 2026 09:05 • 17 days ago

MariaDB Foundation Sea Lion Champions Nominees: Fariha Shaikh ^{(from MariaDB Foundation Blog)}

pThe MariaDB Foundation Sea Lion Champions program celebrates the people and organizations who help make the MariaDB ecosystem stronger, more open, and more useful for everyone. … /p pContinue reading \"MariaDB Foundation Sea Lion Champions Nominees: Fariha Shaikh\"/p pThe post MariaDB Foundation Sea Lion Champions Nominees: Fariha Shaikh appeared first on MariaDB.org./p [...]

Published Monday, 29. June 2026 04:43 • 18 days ago

Continuing the Conversation: MySQL Community Engagement Across JAPAC ^{(from The Oracle MySQL Blog)}

One of the key themes of the MySQL Community over the past year has been increasing transparency, participation, and collaboration. Through Public Discussions, Design Proposals, the MySQL Developer Guide, GitHub collaboration, and the MySQL Contributor Summit, we have been working to create more opportunities for the community to engage with the future direction of MySQL. […] [...]

Published Monday, 29. June 2026 02:57 • 18 days ago

MySQL Query Optimization & EXPLAIN: A Complete Guide for DBAs and Developers ^{(from MinervaDB Blog)}

Master MySQL query optimization using EXPLAIN and EXPLAIN ANALYZE. This comprehensive guide covers composite index design, covering indexes, anti-patterns like full table scans and N+1 queries, cursor-based pagination, Performance Schema query analysis, and the MySQL Optimizer Trace for MySQL DBAs and developers. [...] [...]

Published Sunday, 28. June 2026 23:06 • 18 days ago

MySQL Slow Query Log Table: A Practical Guide to Identifying and Fixing Performance Bottlenecks ^{(from MinervaDB Blog)}

The MySQL slow query log table is one of the most practical tools available to database administrators who need to identify and fix performance bottlenecks—yet it remains widely misunderstood. Every DBA eventually faces the same [...] [...]

Published Sunday, 28. June 2026 08:21 • 18 days ago

InnoDB Recovery and the Buffer Pool Size Paradox: Why Bigger Isn’t Always Better ^{(from MinervaDB Blog)}

InnoDB Recovery Buffer Pool sizing is one of the most impactful—yet misunderstood—factors in MySQL performance. Database administrators have long operated under a straightforward assumption: the larger the InnoDB buffer pool, the better the performance. For [...] [...]

Published Saturday, 27. June 2026 19:16 • 19 days ago

InnoDB Performance Optimization: The Complete Guide to Tuning MySQL for Maximum Throughput ^{(from MinervaDB Blog)}

InnoDB is the default storage engine for MySQL and MariaDB, and its performance directly determines how well your database-driven applications scale under real-world workloads. Whether you are running a high-traffic e-commerce platform, a SaaS application, [...] [...]

Published Saturday, 27. June 2026 15:33 • 19 days ago

Preparing Your Analytical Databases for Agents ^{(from Vettabase)}

Agents can query databases: this has always been the dream of many data people! But there is some work to do to make this process reliable, secure, and valuable for your team. [...]

Published Saturday, 27. June 2026 15:15 • 19 days ago

MariaDB Enterprise Server Q2 2026 Maintenance Releases ^{(from MariaDB Corporation Blog)}

New maintenance releases for MariaDB Enterprise Server: 11.8.8-5, 11.4.12-9, and 10.6.27-23 are now available. Download Now Notable Release Updates MariaDB […] [...]

Published Friday, 26. June 2026 22:25 • 20 days ago

MySQL's New Governance Model: Two steps forward, one step to the side, and one step backwards ^{(from VillageSQL)}

An analysis of Oracle's new MySQL governance model, weighing the benefits of hyperscaler resources against the lack of true community access. [...]

Published Friday, 26. June 2026 18:45 • 20 days ago

Join MySQL Public Discussion #5: Community Participation, Governance, and Next Steps ^{(from The Oracle MySQL Blog)}

As part of our ongoing MySQL Community engagement series, we are pleased to invite you to Public Discussion #5, taking place on July 15, 2026, at 7:00 AM PT. Over the past several months, these public discussions have helped us continue the conversation around MySQL Community Edition, roadmap transparency, contribution paths, GitHub collaboration, and ways […] [...]

Published Friday, 26. June 2026 15:46 • 20 days ago

Oracle promises to open up MySQL governance, but the community wants guarantees ^{(from The Register)}

Open source advocates remain concerned over lack of binding commitments [...]

Published Friday, 26. June 2026 14:42 • 20 days ago

MariaDB Privacy-First Stack: Nextcloud, Passbolt and MariaDB Server ^{(from MariaDB Foundation Blog)}

pI hear this sentence a lot: “We care about privacy.”br Good.br But then you look a bit closer.br Files are on some cloud platform. Nobody is completely sure which settings were changed two years ago. … /p pContinue reading \"MariaDB Privacy-First Stack: Nextcloud, Passbolt and MariaDB Server\"/p pThe post MariaDB Privacy-First Stack: Nextcloud, Passbolt and MariaDB Server appeare [...]

Published Friday, 26. June 2026 12:37 • 20 days ago

Why PostgreSQL needs an AI usage policy ^{(from Percona Community Blog)}

We often hear that open source is about people. [...]

Published Friday, 26. June 2026 10:00 • 20 days ago

Database Backup Strategy: Combining Physical and Logical Methods ^{(from Mydbops Blog)}

Establish a zero-regret database recovery strategy. Learn how to combine physical and logical backups for MySQL, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB to meet strict RTO and RPO. [...]

Published Friday, 26. June 2026 09:39 • 20 days ago

Doltgres 1.0 Coming August 6th ^{(from DoltHub Blog)}

Doltgres 1.0 is coming August 6th. Here's what we've been working on and what we're focused on to get there. [...]

Published Friday, 26. June 2026 00:00 • 21 days ago

Producing Mode statistics with SQL ^{(from Ronald Bradford Blog)}

The mode is the value or values that appear most frequently in a dataset. Unlike the mean or median, it applies naturally to categorical and ordinal data — star ratings, product codes, survey responses — and reveals what is most common, not what is average. [...]

Published Friday, 26. June 2026 00:00 • 21 days ago

When Amazon Aurora Stops Scaling: The Ceiling You Can’t Buy Your Way Past ^{(from PingCAP Blog)}

pIf you have ever run Amazon Aurora at scale, you know the moment I mean. Write latency on the primary starts creeping up during peak hours. You bump the writer to the next instance class, and the relief buys you a quarter. You bump it again. Then one day you open the AWS console to […]/p pThe post When Amazon Aurora Stops Scaling: The Ceiling You Can’t Buy Your Way Past appeared first on TiD [...]

Published Thursday, 25. June 2026 20:18 • 21 days ago

How to Become a MySQL DBA in 2026 ^{(from Webyog Blog)}

pDue to the nature of data-driven business, database administrators (DBAs), particularly MySQL database administrators are highly sought after. /p pThe post How to Become a MySQL DBA in 2026 appeared first on Webyog./p [...]

Published Thursday, 25. June 2026 20:02 • 21 days ago

From JSON by Hand to a Guided MySQL Enterprise Edition Audit Filter Wizard ^{(from The Oracle MySQL Blog)}

MySQL Enterprise Edition includes powerful audit filtering capabilities, but writing audit filter JSON by hand can be tedious and error-prone. The JSON model is flexible, which is exactly what makes it useful, but it also means that a small typo, a missing event class, or an incorrectly assigned user can change what does or does […] [...]

Published Thursday, 25. June 2026 19:31 • 21 days ago

Skeema 1.14 released ^{(from Skeema Blog)}

pSkeema v1.14 is now available! This release adds support for the latest MySQL and MariaDB LTS version series, new configuration hooks for obtaining database credentials directly from external scripts, and additional deprecation logging to prep for Skeema v2./p [...]

Published Thursday, 25. June 2026 18:46 • 21 days ago

Open Governance for MySQL: A Step Forward for the Community ^{(from AWS Open Source Blog)}

MySQL — the open source database behind millions of applications worldwide — is opening a new chapter. Today, Oracle announced a community governance model for MySQL that creates pathways for the broader community to participate in the project’s development and direction. This post explains why AWS supports this move and what it means for the […] [...]

Published Thursday, 25. June 2026 17:14 • 21 days ago

The Next Phase of MySQL Community Engagement: Accelerating Participation and Collaboration ^{(from The Oracle MySQL Blog)}

For over 30 years, MySQL has grown through the contributions, feedback, and collaboration of a global community of developers, database administrators, customers, partners, educators, and open source advocates. That community has helped make MySQL one of the world’s most widely used open source databases. As the ecosystem continues to grow and evolve, so [...]

Published Thursday, 25. June 2026 17:00 • 21 days ago

Passbolt renews its support for MariaDB Foundation ^{(from MariaDB Foundation Blog)}

pMariaDB Foundation is pleased to announce that Passbolt has renewed its Silver sponsorship for another year, continuing its long-term support for the MariaDB open-source ecosystem. … /p pContinue reading \"Passbolt renews its support for MariaDB Foundation\"/p pThe post Passbolt renews its support for MariaDB Foundation appeared first on MariaDB.org./p [...]

Published Thursday, 25. June 2026 06:23 • 22 days ago

One Postgres cluster, many apps ^{(from PlanetScale Blog)}

Yo, I heard you liked databases, so we put logical databases in your database cluster so you can database while you database [...]

Published Thursday, 25. June 2026 00:00 • 22 days ago

Microsoft rivals line up to tell UK watchdog where the software behemoth hurt them ^{(from The Register)}

Browsers, cloud challengers, and Killinghall Parish Council all accuse Redmond of locking in customers, hobbling competition [...]

Published Wednesday, 24. June 2026 11:09 • 22 days ago

Aqtra Joins MariaDB Foundation as a Gold Sponsor ^{(from MariaDB Foundation Blog)}

pMariaDB Foundation is pleased to welcome Aqtra Platform as a new Gold Sponsor.br Aqtra is a Development Infrastructure Layer (DIL) platform for building ERP solutions, business applications, internal and external portals, and workflows that connect multiple systems. … /p pContinue reading \"Aqtra Joins MariaDB Foundation as a Gold Sponsor\"/p pThe post Aqtra Joins MariaDB Foundation as a Gol [...]

Published Wednesday, 24. June 2026 08:31 • 22 days ago

Structured Primary Keys ^{(from Modern SQL)}

Structured Primary KeyspSometimes I hit a wall when optimizing a client’s query. Over the years, I realized that most cases fall into two categories: (1) unreasonable expectations based on the cloud bill, not on the infrastructure’s power; (2) the primary key design. This article explains how primary keys can put tables into walled gardens so that the database schema falls apart into disconnected p [...]

Published Wednesday, 24. June 2026 00:00 • 23 days ago

Extending MySQL Capabilies with UDFs, Plugins and Components - Part 2 ^{(from Ronald Bradford Blog)}

MySQL offers three different approaches to extending the SQL capabilities with the default product you download and install. These are: User Defined Function (UDF) MySQL Manual MySQL Plugin MySQL Manual MySQL Component MySQL Manual In my prior post I provided a new uuidv function that accepted a numeric argument to return a string of the version of UUID specified. [...]

Published Wednesday, 24. June 2026 00:00 • 23 days ago

The Fintech AI Platform: Why Agents Need One Database, Not Five ^{(from PingCAP Blog)}

pA few months ago I watched a fintech engineering team walk me through their AI agent platform. They had a transactional database for balances and ledgers, a separate vector database for semantic retrieval, a cache for session state, a document store for agent memory, and a stream processor stitching it together. Five systems. Each one […]/p pThe post The Fintech AI Platform: Why Agents Need [...]

Published Tuesday, 23. June 2026 18:49 • 23 days ago

Create Replica DB system Made Easy for MySQL HeatWave Service on OCI ^{(from The Oracle MySQL Blog)}

MySQL HeatWave Service (MHS) on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) already provides multiple ways to create a new DB system, such as restoring from a backup, using Point-in-Time Recovery (PITR), or importing data from Object Storage. However, when creating a new DB system from an existing DB system, especially in another region, the process required several sequential […] [...]

Published Tuesday, 23. June 2026 17:37 • 23 days ago

Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) for MySQL: The Ultimate Guide ^{(from MinervaDB Blog)}

MySQL TDE (Transparent Data Encryption) is the cornerstone of data-at-rest security for MySQL databases. Data security is a top priority for organizations managing sensitive information in MySQL databases. Whether you are storing financial records, healthcare [...] [...]

Published Tuesday, 23. June 2026 09:07 • 23 days ago

We just announced the availability of a preview of the MariaDB 13.1 series. ^{(from lefred's blog)}

MariaDB 13.1 is a rolling release preview, and, as usual, this is the right moment to test what is coming, give feedback, and help us polish the next MariaDB Server release. But this time, there is something really interesting. And by “interesting”, I mean: wow! MariaDB 13.1 Preview includes 32 MDEVs with new features and […] [...]

Published Tuesday, 23. June 2026 07:01 • 24 days ago

MariaDB 13.1 Preview: This One Is Full of Community Goodies! ^{(from MariaDB Foundation Blog)}

pWe just announced the availability of a preview of the MariaDB 13.1 series.br MariaDB 13.1 is a rolling release preview, and, as usual, this is the right moment to test what is coming, give feedback, and help us polish the next MariaDB Server release. … /p pContinue reading \"MariaDB 13.1 Preview: This One Is Full of Community Goodies!\"/p pThe post MariaDB 13.1 Preview: This One Is Full of [...]

Published Tuesday, 23. June 2026 05:12 • 24 days ago

Producing Alternative Means statistics with SQL ^{(from Ronald Bradford Blog)}

MySQL’s built-in AVG() computes the arithmetic mean — the sum divided by the count. That is the right default for many questions, but it is not always the right measure of central tendency. [...]

Published Tuesday, 23. June 2026 00:00 • 24 days ago

The database that refused to die: How Postgres survived its own creators ^{(from The Register)}

From academic toss-aside to cloud substrate [...]

Published Monday, 22. June 2026 17:43 • 24 days ago

Cloud DB Cost Breakdown: MySQL, PostgreSQL & MongoDB Atlas | Mydbops ^{(from Mydbops Blog)}

Learn where your money goes in MySQL, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB Atlas. Understand IOPS, HA multipliers, and data egress to optimize your cloud DB bill. [...]

Published Monday, 22. June 2026 10:32 • 24 days ago

The MariaDB approach vs the DB Trail for MySQL approach: Comparing time-travel ^{(from dbtrail Blog)}

pTwo ways to keep database history: inline system versioning, or an external change-data-capture index on a separate machine. This is not a speed contest. It is about what…/p pThe post The MariaDB approach vs the DB Trail for MySQL approach: Comparing time-travel appeared first on dbtrail./p [...]

Published Monday, 22. June 2026 02:56 • 25 days ago

Extending MySQL Capabilities with UDFs, Plugins and Components ^{(from Ronald Bradford Blog)}

MySQL offers three different approaches to extending the SQL capabilities with the default product you download and install. These are: User Defined Function (UDF) MySQL Manual MySQL Plugin MySQL Manual MySQL Component MySQL Manual For the purposes of this post I will be using the current LTS version MySQL 8. [...]

Published Monday, 22. June 2026 00:00 • 25 days ago

Do not uselessly grant CREATE and ALTER TABLE ^{(from J-F Gagné's MySQL Blog)}

This lesson should have been learned with the CREATE TABLE of death, but it is worth a refresh. Do not uselessly grant CREATE and ALTER TABLE The reason I am posting this reminder is that another crashing bug related to DDL came to my attention. This bug is only fixed in a recent version of MySQL (probably not affecting 5.6 and 5.7), so if you are running the latest 8.0 or 8.4, you should [...]

Published Saturday, 20. June 2026 22:52 • 26 days ago

MariaDB 13.1 preview available ^{(from MariaDB Foundation Blog)}

pWe are pleased to announce the availability of a preview of the MariaDB 13.1 series. MariaDB 13.1 will be a rolling release. … /p pContinue reading \"MariaDB 13.1 preview available\"/p pThe post MariaDB 13.1 preview available appeared first on MariaDB.org./p [...]

Published Saturday, 20. June 2026 20:24 • 26 days ago

Top MySQL Performance Metrics to Monitor in 2026 ^{(from Webyog Blog)}

pAs databases power increasingly complex workloads — from AI-driven applications to cloud-nativemicroservices and containerized deployments — the ability to monitor MySQL performance with precision hasnever been more important. Whether you’re […]/p pThe post Top MySQL Performance Metrics to Monitor in 2026 appeared first on Webyog./p [...]

Published Saturday, 20. June 2026 17:04 • 26 days ago

Producing One-Sample Z-Test statistics with SQL ^{(from Ronald Bradford Blog)}

The one-sample Z-test determines whether a sample mean differs significantly from a known population mean when the population standard deviation is also known. It is the appropriate test when the population parameters are established — quality control benchmarks, national averages, long-run process measurements — and you want to evaluate whether a new sample is consistent with them. [...]

Published Saturday, 20. June 2026 00:00 • 27 days ago

Switching to JSON Error Logging in MySQL ^{(from Ronald Bradford Blog)}

You no longer need to manually parse the MySQL Error log via scripting and RegEx pattern matching. Using the component_log_sink_json component you can obtain JSON error logging for easier parsing. [...]

Published Friday, 19. June 2026 00:00 • 28 days ago

Simple tool to build MariaDB commits for performance-change analysis ^{(from MariaDB Foundation Blog)}

pTracking down changes in database performance is one of the hardest parts of engineering, especially when the change is buried somewhere in a long commit history. … /p pContinue reading \"Simple tool to build MariaDB commits for performance-change analysis\"/p pThe post Simple tool to build MariaDB commits for performance-change analysis appeared first on MariaDB.org./p [...]

Published Thursday, 18. June 2026 21:10 • 28 days ago

Scaling Write Throughput in Azure Database for MySQL Using Application-Level Sharding ^{(from Azure for MySQL Blog)}

pThis blog post walks through scaling write throughput in Azure Database for MySQL using application level sharding. It starts with the why behind sharding and then builds a complete C# implementation that spreads writes across three Azure Database for MySQL Flexible Servers./p Why Shard in the First Place? pThis post focuses specifically on scaling write throughput. A well-tuned single primary nod [...]

Published Thursday, 18. June 2026 16:16 • 28 days ago

Future proofing MySQL and MariaDB versioning ^{(from OpenLife.cc)}

Future proofing MySQL and MariaDB versioning hingo Thu, 2026-06-18 08:15 ulliRead more about Future proofing MySQL and MariaDB versioning /liliLog in to post comments/lili91 views/li/ul pOracle MySQL willl move to Ubuntu -style version numbers, with the next version being 26.7./p pAlthough the blog post doesn't go as far as actually mentioning Mariadb, this seems to be a response [...]

Published Thursday, 18. June 2026 07:15 • 29 days ago

MariaDB Vector in Laravel: insights on choosing an embedding model ^{(from MariaDB Foundation Blog)}

plaravel-mariadb-vector is an open-source project by Erik Ros, bringing MariaDB’s native vector search to Laravel’s Eloquent ORM. In his guest post, Erik shares how it works, and his insights about picking an embedding model. … /p pContinue reading \"MariaDB Vector in Laravel: insights on choosing an embedding model\"/p pThe post MariaDB Vector in Laravel: insights on choosin [...]

Published Thursday, 18. June 2026 06:18 • 29 days ago

What People Are Saying: LWN Edition ^{(from DoltHub Blog)}

More and more people are talking about us. Here's what LWN is saying. [...]

Published Thursday, 18. June 2026 00:00 • 29 days ago

Installing MySQL 9.7 LTS Community Edition on CentOS ^{(from Ronald Bradford Blog)}

Historically installing MySQL on a RedHat Compatible Linux server was as simple as yum install mysql-server. Today’s MySQL Oracle Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS, and Fedora 9.7 instructions are not accurate mixing in 8. [...]

Published Thursday, 18. June 2026 00:00 • 29 days ago

Amazon Aurora and RDS for MySQL expand Extended Support for MySQL 5.7 through June 2029 ^{(from AWS What's New)}

pAmazon Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition and Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for MySQL now offer Amazon RDS Extended Support for MySQL 5.7 through June 30, 2029, from the previous end date of February 28, 2027. This applies to Aurora MySQL version 2 (with MySQL 5.7 compatibility) and RDS for MySQL version 5.7, giving customers additional time to plan and complete their upgrades to a support [...]

Published Wednesday, 17. June 2026 15:00 • 29 days ago

Security advisory: CVE-2026-9740 and CVE-2026-11933 in Percona Server for MongoDB ^{(from Percona Database Blog)}

pTL;DR: This advisory covers the two most important high-severity memory-safety vulnerabilities affecting MongoDB Community and our downstream Percona Server for MongoDB – CVE-2026-11933 and CVE-2026-9740. Both will be addressed in a single coordinated patch release, bundled with other recently revealed lower-scored CVE fixes: CVE-2026-9753, CVE-2026-9752, CVE-2026-9751, CVE-2026-9750, CVE-20 [...]

Published Wednesday, 17. June 2026 14:24 • 29 days ago

Fuzzy String Search for MySQL ^{(from VillageSQL)}

Add fuzzy string matching to MySQL with VillageSQL. Learn to use trigrams for typos, Levenshtein distance for spell correction, and phonetic matching. [...]

Published Wednesday, 17. June 2026 14:00 • 29 days ago

MySQL 9.7 – Thank you for your contributions! ^{(from The Oracle MySQL Blog)}

On April 21st, 2026, we released MySQL 9.7.0, the latest Long-Term Support release. As always, we are grateful to the MySQL community for helping improve MySQL with bug reports, patches, pull requests, and continued feedback. Community contributions help make MySQL better for everyone, and we are happy to recognize the contributors whose work was included […] [...]

Published Wednesday, 17. June 2026 08:00 • 29 days ago

The insert benchmark on a small server, IO-bound workload : Postgres 19 beta1 ^{(from Small Datum)}

pThis has results for Postgres versions 19 beta1, 18.4 and 17.10 with the Insert Benchmark on a small server using a cached and CPU-bound workload. I also used MySQL 8.4.8 to see where performance was different./pp/ppPostgres continues to be boring in a good way. It is hard to find performance regressions./pp tl;dr/pp/pullicreate index (the l.x step) is faster in Postgres 19beta1. A Postgres e [...]

Published Wednesday, 17. June 2026 01:29 • 30 days ago

MariaDB R2DBC Connector 1.4.1 now available ^{(from MariaDB Corporation Blog)}

MariaDB is pleased to announce the immediate availability of the MariaDB Connector/R2DBC 1.4.1 GA release. Download Now Release Notes MariaDB […] [...]

Published Tuesday, 16. June 2026 22:24 • 30 days ago

A More Predictable MySQL Release Model: Calendar Versions, LTS, and Innovation ^{(from The Oracle MySQL Blog)}

Understanding the New Cadence: Quarterly CPUs, Targeted CSPUs, and Transitioning to Calendar Versioning MySQL is updating its release model to make releases easier to understand, plan for, and follow: The goal is not simply to change the number on a release. The goal is to give users, DBAs, developers, Linux distributions, cloud platforms, and ecosystem […] [...]

Published Tuesday, 16. June 2026 19:46 • 30 days ago

High Performance Real-Time Analytics on MariaDB Cloud: MariaDB Exa Technical Preview ^{(from MariaDB Corporation Blog)}

We are excited to announce the technical preview of MariaDB Exa on MariaDB Cloud. This release brings high-performance Hybrid Transactional […] [...]

Published Tuesday, 16. June 2026 14:59 • 1 months ago

MariaDB Server 10.6 Reaches End of Life on July 6th ^{(from MariaDB Foundation Blog)}

pMariaDB Server 10.6 has been with us for a long time. It was the last MariaDB LTS released under the previous release model, and it has served many users, distributions, applications, and production environments very well. … /p pContinue reading \"MariaDB Server 10.6 Reaches End of Life on July 6th\"/p pThe post MariaDB Server 10.6 Reaches End of Life on July 6th appeared first on MariaDB.or [...]

Published Tuesday, 16. June 2026 12:26 • 1 months ago

Extending pt-archiver with a Partition-Aware Plug-in for Fast Retention Policy Enforcement ^{(from Percona Database Blog)}

pManaging data retention policies is one of the most common operational tasks in MySQL. Applications continuously generate transactional, audit, logging, telemetry, and event data. Over time, these tables can grow to billions of rows, causing: Larger backups Longer recovery times Reduced buffer pool efficiency Slower index maintenance Increased storage costs Degraded query performance To address &# [...]

Published Tuesday, 16. June 2026 11:31 • 1 months ago

SQL Server may be too lucrative for Microsoft to ditch, but too legacy to love ^{(from The Register)}

Analysts say Redmond still has billions of reasons to keep backing its flagship DBMS, even as Azure, Postgres, and AI hog the spotlight [...]

Published Tuesday, 16. June 2026 10:00 • 1 months ago

MariaDB + TidesDB: my first steps with this new engine ^{(from lefred's blog)}

After testing the latest Storage Engine in the MariaDB family, DuckDB, I wanted to test another storage engine about which I had only heard good things: TideSQL. TideSQL is the name of the pluggable storage engine for MariaDB Server powered by TidesDB. TidesDB is an LSM-tree-based storage engine, and TideSQL makes it available directly inside […] [...]

Published Tuesday, 16. June 2026 08:35 • 1 months ago

MySQL Community Edition Vulnerability Advisory: June 2026 ^{(from One-Time MySQL Community/Ecosystem Posts)}

This page provides a view of the vulnerabilities addressed in MySQL Community Edition in the June 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, 16. June 2026 00:00 • 1 months ago

The feedback loops behind Kubernetes ^{(from PlanetScale Blog)}

Kubernetes is a framework for feedback controllers: write down what you want, observe what exists, make the next change, and repeat. [...]

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

Using GenAI directly in the database. A practical example using MySQL 8.0 ^{(from Ronald Bradford Blog)}

If you have a typical MySQL production setup using MySQL 8.0 (EOL) with replication, you can take advantage of VillageSQL extensions to generate AI responses directly with your source data with no impact on your production setup or existing application software. [...]

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

DB Trail Open Source now has a UI ^{(from dbtrail Blog)}

pDB Trail now has a web console. That is the short version 🙂 For as long as dbtrail has existed, you drove it from the command line: find the…/p pThe post DB Trail Open Source now has a UI appeared first on dbtrail./p [...]

Published Monday, 15. June 2026 21:58 • 1 months ago

MariaDB Java Connector 3.5.9, 3.4.3, 3.3.5, and 2.7.14 now available ^{(from MariaDB Corporation Blog)}

MariaDB is pleased to announce the immediate availability of the MariaDB Connector/J 3.5.9, 3.4.3, 3.3.5, and 2.7.14 releases. Download Now […] [...]

Published Monday, 15. June 2026 18:14 • 1 months ago

How to Install Ghost 5 CMS on Ubuntu 26.04 with MySQL and Caddy ^{(from RoseHosting Blog)}

pThis blog post is about installing Ghost 5 CMS on Ubuntu 26.04 OS with MySQL and Caddy. Ghost is a ... /p pRead More/p pThe post How to Install Ghost 5 CMS on Ubuntu 26.04 with MySQL and Caddy appeared first on RoseHosting./p [...]

Published Monday, 15. June 2026 17:30 • 1 months ago

Top 10 Trino Performance Anti-Patterns to Avoid in Production ^{(from MinervaDB Blog)}

Trino Performance Anti-Patterns are among the most critical challenges facing data engineers running Trino (formerly PrestoSQL) — the powerful distributed SQL query engine designed for fast analytic queries against data of any size. Even experienced [...] [...]

Published Monday, 15. June 2026 17:13 • 1 months ago

MySQL Replication Monitoring: Enhanced Features for the Enterprise Edition ^{(from MinervaDB Blog)}

MySQL Replication Monitoring is a critical operational discipline — and in MySQL Enterprise Edition, it is also a substantially more capable one. MySQL replication has long served as the backbone of high-availability architectures, disaster recovery [...] [...]

Published Monday, 15. June 2026 14:44 • 1 months ago

Copy of Free MySQL Memory Calculator | Releem ^{(from Releem Blog)}

Use free MySQL Memory Calculator to accurately estimate maximum memory usage for your MySQL server. Get real-time results, visual memory distribution, and optimization tips. Perfect for DBAs and developers to enhance database performance. [...]

Published Monday, 15. June 2026 08:56 • 1 months ago

Amazon RDS for MariaDB supports Long-Term Support version 12.3 in Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment ^{(from AWS What's New)}

pAmazon RDS for MariaDB now supports MariaDB 12.3 in the Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment, allowing you to evaluate the latest Long-Term Support Release on Amazon RDS for MariaDB. This preview environment provides a sandbox where you can test applications and explore new MariaDB 12.3 capabilities before they become generally available.br br MariaDB 12.3 includes Oracle TO_DATE() fu [...]

Published Monday, 15. June 2026 07:00 • 1 months ago

Amazon RDS for MySQL announces Extended Support minor version 5.7.44-RDS.20260521 ^{(from AWS What's New)}

pAmazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MySQL now supports new Amazon RDS Extended Support minor version 5.7.44-RDS.20260521. We recommend that you upgrade to this version to fix known security vulnerabilities and bugs in prior versions of MySQL. Learn more about upgrading your database instances, including minor and major version upgrades, in the Amazon RDS User Guide./p pA [...]

Published Monday, 15. June 2026 07:00 • 1 months ago

Amazon RDS for MariaDB now supports community MariaDB minor versions 10.6.27, 10.11.18, 11.4.12, and 11.8.8 ^{(from AWS What's New)}

pAmazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MariaDB now supports community MariaDB minor versions 10.6.27, 10.11.18, 11.4.12, and 11.8.8. We recommend that you upgrade to the latest minor versions to fix known security vulnerabilities in prior versions of MariaDB, and to benefit from the bug fixes, performance improvements, and new functionality added by the MariaDB community.br br Yo [...]

Published Monday, 15. June 2026 07:00 • 1 months ago

Group Replication VS Percona XtraDB Cluster: The True Cost of Consistency ^{(from Percona Database Blog)}

pOverview When building high-availability MySQL environments, the choice between MySQL Group Replication (GR) and Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC) often comes down to how they handle the eternal database dilemma: data consistency versus performance. While both provide “synchronous-like” replication, they approach the problem of stale reads—reading data that has been committed on one [...]

Published Monday, 15. June 2026 06:58 • 1 months ago

The Failover Brownout: Rethinking High Availability in MySQL Group Replication ^{(from Percona Database Blog)}

pIt is time to talk again about Flow control and group replication. This time with a special eye on the use of Group Replication in the Kubernetes context. In this article we will dig a bit on how it works and what are the various side effects. The problem Recently I was refining the … Continued/p pThe post The Failover Brownout: Rethinking High Availability in MySQL Group Replication [...]

Published Monday, 15. June 2026 06:57 • 1 months ago

MariaDB Foundation Sea Lion Champions Nominees: Sylvain Arbaudie ^{(from MariaDB Foundation Blog)}

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

Published Monday, 15. June 2026 06:30 • 1 months ago

Database Branching for AI Agents: How TINE Solves the Schema Drift Problem ^{(from PingCAP Blog)}

pKey Takeaways AI coding agents are no longer a novelty. From Claude Code to Cursor’s agent mode, from GitHub Copilot Workspace to OpenAI Codex, “generate an app from a prompt” demos flood developer feeds. Each one follows the same arc: a developer types a prompt, an application appears, and the audience applauds. What those demos […]/p pThe post Database Branching for AI Ag [...]

Published Monday, 15. June 2026 05:03 • 1 months ago

Troubleshooting GCP Cloud SQL Restarts: Incident Response Guide ^{(from Mydbops Blog)}

A practical incident response guide to investigate GCP Cloud SQL restarts. Learn how to differentiate planned maintenance from unplanned MySQL crashes using Cloud Logging. [...]

Published Monday, 15. June 2026 04:17 • 1 months ago

Git For Context ^{(from DoltHub Blog)}

We built a version of Open Code with version-controlled context. Check it out. [...]

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

See what your database is doing right now with Connections ^{(from PlanetScale Blog)}

Connections lets you monitor and manage all active connections to Postgres and Vitess databases. See active sessions, identify locking patterns, and keep debugging even when normal application connections are exhausted. [...]

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

Producing Skewness statistics with SQL ^{(from Ronald Bradford Blog)}

Skewness measures the asymmetry of a distribution. A perfectly symmetric distribution has a skewness of zero. A positive skew (right-skewed) means the tail extends to the right — a small number of high values pull the mean above the median. [...]

Published Sunday, 14. June 2026 00:00 • 1 months ago

Stop Guessing Your Kubernetes MySQL Configs: Meet the MySQL Operator Calculator ^{(from TusaCentral - MySQL Blogs)}

pLet’s be honest: migrating a relational database to Kubernetes sounds fantastic in a whiteboard meeting, but the reality of day-two operations is a completely different story./p pWhen moving MySQL to Kubernetes, the ultimate goal is simple: identify a safe, performant set of configuration values for your database pods. But where do you start? Usually, you look at your overall node resources say, a [...]

Published Saturday, 13. June 2026 10:46 • 1 months ago

HammerDB tproc-c on a large server, Postgres and MySQL ^{(from Small Datum)}

pThis has results for HammerDB tproc-c on a small server using MySQL and Postgres. I am new to HammerDB and still figuring out how to explain and present results so I will keep this simple and just share graphs without explaining the results.brbrThe comparison might favor Postgres for the IO-bound workloads because I used smaller buffer pools than normal to avoid OOM. I have to do this be [...]

Published Sunday, 15. February 2026 20:42 • 5 months ago | Updated Saturday, 13. June 2026 01:03 • 1 months ago

HammerDB tproc-c on a large server, Postgres 14 to 19 beta1 ^{(from Small Datum)}

pThis has results for HammerDB tproc-c on a large server using MySQL and Postgres. I am new to HammerDB and still figuring out how to explain and present results so I will keep this simple and just share graphs without explaining the results./pptl;dr/pp/pul/ulp/pulliThere are small regressions in versions 16, 17 and 18/liliNOPM usually improves a small amount in 19 beta1 relative to 18/li/ulBuilds, [...]

Published Saturday, 13. June 2026 01:00 • 1 months ago

Exploring the vsql-ai extension ^{(from Ronald Bradford Blog)}

The vsql-ai extension adds AI prompt capabilities and text embeddings directly in SQL queries, with support for Anthropic Claude , Google Gemini , OpenAI ChatGPT , or a local LLM such as Ollama . [...]

Published Saturday, 13. June 2026 00:00 • 1 months ago

Group Replication VS Percona XtraDB Cluster: The True Cost of Consistency ^{(from TusaCentral - MySQL Blogs)}

Overview pWhen building high-availability MySQL environments, the choice between MySQL Group Replication (GR) and Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC) often comes down to how they handle the eternal database dilemma: data consistency versus performance. ♦/p pWhile both provide "synchronous-like" replication, they approach the problem of stale reads—reading data that has been commi [...]

Published Friday, 12. June 2026 14:44 • 1 months ago

MariaDB + DuckDB: A New Playground for Analytics – A First Look at the New Storage Engine ^{(from lefred's blog)}

MariaDB just announced it has learned to quack: the new DuckDB storage engine has joined the large family of storage engines in MariaDB Server. The idea is very interesting: use MariaDB Server as usual, but create some tables using ENGINE=DuckDB and benefit from DuckDB’s columnar storage and vectorized execution for analytical queries. In other words, […] [...]

Published Friday, 12. June 2026 11:53 • 1 months ago

MariaDB + DuckDB: A New Playground for Analytics – A First Look at the New Storage Engine ^{(from MariaDB Foundation Blog)}

pMariaDB just announced it has learned to quack: the new DuckDB storage engine has joined the large family of storage engines in MariaDB Server. … /p pContinue reading \"MariaDB + DuckDB: A New Playground for Analytics – A First Look at the New Storage Engine\"/p pThe post MariaDB + DuckDB: A New Playground for Analytics – A First Look at the New Storage Engine appeared first on M [...]

Published Friday, 12. June 2026 11:53 • 1 months ago

Guide Multi-Cluster MongoDB on GKE with MCS, Percona Operator ^{(from Percona Community Blog)}

Multi-Cluster MongoDB on GKE with MCS Guide Ivan Groenewold, Technical Lead, Percona MongoDB, and I put together a detailed step-by-step guide on deploying the Percona Operator for MongoDB across two GKE clusters using Multi-Cluster Services (MCS) [...]

Published Friday, 12. June 2026 11:00 • 1 months ago

The Failover Brownout: Rethinking High Availability in MySQL Group Replication ^{(from TusaCentral - MySQL Blogs)}

pIt is time to talk again about Flow control and group replication. This time with a special eye on the use of Group Replication in the Kubernetes context. In this article we will dig a bit on how it works and what are the various side effects. /p p ♦/p The problem pRecently I was refining the calculation I use in the MySQL calculator for Operator given I was constantly encountering a ver [...]

Published Friday, 12. June 2026 08:12 • 1 months ago

Write-heavy sysbench tests, a large server, modern Postgres and MySQL ^{(from Small Datum)}

pThis has results for modern Postgres and MySQL using write-heavy tests from sysbench and a large server. I think there are regressions in Postgres that arrive in some of versions 16, 17, 18 and 19 beta1 but I am far from certain and this blog post is just another step in my journey to figure that out./pptl;dr/pp/pulliPostgres suffers a lot from throughput variation while MySQL+InnoDB does not/lili [...]

Published Friday, 12. June 2026 01:16 • 1 months ago | Updated Friday, 12. June 2026 01:19 • 1 months ago

Producing Chi-Squared statistics with SQL ^{(from Ronald Bradford Blog)}

The Chi-Squared test is one of the most widely used statistical tests for categorical data. It comes in two flavors: the goodness-of-fit test asks whether an observed frequency distribution matches an expected one, while the test of independence asks whether two categorical variables are associated with each other. [...]

Published Friday, 12. June 2026 00:00 • 1 months ago

Conway’s Law in Reverse: Why AI Agents Need One Database, Not Ten ^{(from PingCAP Blog)}

pAgentic AI did not create a new kind of database. It revealed which ones were already built for it. Across 2026 so far, a wave of large software companies have cut tens of thousands of roles and explained the cuts in nearly identical language: Too many layers of leadership, too many coordination-heavy roles, a need […]/p pThe post Conway’s Law in Reverse: Why AI Agents Need One Databas [...]

Published Thursday, 11. June 2026 21:12 • 1 months ago

Village News: MySQL News + Events (11 June 2026) ^{(from VillageSQL)}

Stay updated with the latest database insights. Check out updates on MySQL 9.7 LTS, MariaDB vector support, VillageSQL tools, and 2026 events. [...]

Published Thursday, 11. June 2026 15:34 • 1 months ago

Your AI now speaks Readyset: announcing the MCP server ^{(from Readyset Blog)}

Readyset ships native MCP support with two transports: a stdio binary for individual developers and an embedded HTTP endpoint for shared production deployments. Claude, Cursor, and any MCP-aware agent can now inspect proxied queries, analyze cacheability, and create or drop caches in real time. [...]

Published Thursday, 11. June 2026 15:24 • 1 months ago

MariaDB shortens maintenance period from 5 to 3 years ^{(from Shinguz's Blog)}

pSomehow this news slipped past me: MariaDB has shortened the support period for the long-term releases of the MariaDB Community Server from 5 to 3 years. OK, I guess that’s not really surprising — I’ve been offline for a good month…/p MariaDB Server LTS Release Support Periods Release GA date EoL date Duration 12.3 28 May 2026 Jun 2029 [...]

Published Thursday, 11. June 2026 07:34 • 1 months ago

MySQL Contributor Summit 2026: Collaboration, Innovation, and Community-Driven Development ^{(from The Oracle MySQL Blog)}

On May 26, The MySQL Community Team at Oracle welcomed MySQL contributors, customers, partners, and community members to the MySQL Contributor Summit at the Oracle Redwood Shores campus, with additional participants joining remotely. The Contributor Summit brought Oracle engineers and community contributors together to exchange ideas, share ongoing work, and explore opportunities to collabora [...]

Published Thursday, 11. June 2026 00:34 • 1 months ago

The only scalable delete in Postgres is DROP TABLE ^{(from PlanetScale Blog)}

Large DELETEs add work instead of reclaiming it. Structure your database so deletion becomes DROP TABLE or TRUNCATE. [...]

Published Thursday, 11. June 2026 00:00 • 1 months ago

Avoid shared database accounts with federated IAM authentication ^{(from AWS Database Blog)}

In this post, you will learn how to integrate Okta with AWS IAM Identity Center and implement Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) AWS Identity and Access Management (AWS IAM) authentication to create a unified authentication flow. You configure attribute-based access control (ABAC) that automatically maps user identities from your IdP to database permissions, supporting interactive user [...]

Published Wednesday, 10. June 2026 18:15 • 1 months ago

Opening Up the MySQL Bug Process ^{(from The Oracle MySQL Blog)}

The MySQL team has been working hard to foster innovation, strengthen collaboration with our community, support meaningful contributions, and grow the broader MySQL ecosystem through greater openness and transparency. We believe MySQL is at its best when everyone can see how progress is being made, where work is happening, and how issues move through the […] [...]

Published Wednesday, 10. June 2026 17:59 • 1 months ago

MariaDB Connector/C 3.4.9, and 3.3.19 now available ^{(from MariaDB Corporation Blog)}

MariaDB is pleased to announce the immediate availability of MariaDB Connector/C 3.4.9, and 3.3.19. Download Now Release Notes and Changelogs […] [...]

Published Wednesday, 10. June 2026 17:42 • 1 months ago

Build Persistent, Scalable AI Agent Memory with TiDB ^{(from PingCAP Blog)}

pI gave a session at Microsoft Build 2026 on agent memory with TiDB. A few people asked for the code afterward, so here’s a complete write up of the session: The same pattern as the talk, with copy-paste-ready schema and queries. You can watch the original Microsoft Build 2026 session here. Why an Agent Memory […]/p pThe post Build Persistent, Scalable AI Agent Memory with TiDB appeared [...]

Published Wednesday, 10. June 2026 15:53 • 1 months ago

MariaDB Releases Community Server 12.3 LTS to Consolidate AI Database Infrastructure ^{(from DBTA)}

MariaDB announced MariaDB Community Server 12.3 has reached Generally Available (GA) status, bringing together a year of rapid innovation into a rock-solid, production-ready package maintained for the next three years. Enhanced Oracle and MySQL compatibility features are designed to reduce migration complexity and lower barriers to open-source adoption.? [...]

Published Wednesday, 10. June 2026 14:15 • 1 months ago

MariaDB Vector Support Upstreamed to Open-WebUI: Single-Database RAG Just Got Faster and Simpler ^{(from Shattered Silicon OSDB Blog)}

pAt Shattered Silicon, we live at the intersection of high-performance databases and production-grade AI. As an open-source contributor in the MariaDB ecosystem and a serious player bridging relational databases with modern AI workloads, we are excited to share our upstream contribution to one of the most popular self-hosted AI platforms: Open-WebUI. Why MariaDB Vector Changes […]/p pThe post [...]

Published Wednesday, 10. June 2026 12:21 • 1 months ago

MariaDB Server 12.3, 11.8, 11.4, 10.11, 10.6 – May 2026’s releases: thank you for your contributions ^{(from lefred's blog)}

On May… we have released an update of our 5 current LTS releases: These new releases contain a large amount of external contributions. The number of contributors is constantly growing, which is great! On behalf of the MariaDB Foundation and the entire MariaDB Team, let me thank you all! If we refer to MariaDB Server […] [...]

Published Wednesday, 10. June 2026 11:38 • 1 months ago

MariaDB Server 12.3, 11.8, 11.4, 10.11, 10.6 – May 2026’s releases: thank you for your contributions ^{(from MariaDB Foundation Blog)}

pOn May… we have released an update of our 5 current LTS releases:br These new releases contain a large amount of external contributions. The number of contributors is constantly growing, which is great! … /p pContinue reading \"MariaDB Server 12.3, 11.8, 11.4, 10.11, 10.6 – May 2026’s releases: thank you for your contributions\"/p pThe post MariaDB Server 12.3, 11.8, 11.4, 10.11, 10.6 [...]

Published Wednesday, 10. June 2026 11:38 • 1 months ago

MariaDB Server 12.3 LTS Released ^{(from lefred's blog)}

A few days ago, the MariaDB Server 12.3 LTS was released! MariaDB 12.3 is the new Long-Term Support release in the MariaDB 12 series and will be maintained for several years. The first GA version of the 12.3 series is 12.3.2. For users running production systems, this is the kind of release that matters: not […] [...]

Published Wednesday, 10. June 2026 05:55 • 1 months ago

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

I am excited to be speaking at COSCUP 2026 in Taipei, Taiwan on August 8th and 9th. COSCUP (Conference for Open Source Coders, Users and Promoters) is one of the largest open source conferences in Asia, and it is always a privilege to present to the engaged and technically sharp community there. [...]

Published Wednesday, 10. June 2026 00:00 • 1 months ago

MySQL 9.7 LTS Is Here: Upgrade and Modernize on a Stronger Community Edition ^{(from The Oracle MySQL Blog)}

MySQL 9.7 LTS is here, establishing the new MySQL 9.7.x Long-Term Support release line. For organizations running MySQL today, this is the right time to evaluate upgrade plans and move toward a current, supported foundation. It is also a good moment for teams standardizing their database strategy to take a fresh look at MySQL. Whether […] [...]

Published Tuesday, 09. June 2026 21:18 • 1 months ago

MariaDB Node.js Connector 3.5.3 and 3.4.6 now available ^{(from MariaDB Corporation Blog)}

MariaDB is pleased to announce the immediate availability of the MariaDB Connector/Node.js 3.5.3 and 3.4.6 GA releases. Download Now Release […] [...]

Published Tuesday, 09. June 2026 19:46 • 1 months ago

Planet for the MySQL Community

A blog / news aggregator for the MySQL Community / Ecosystem

Thursday, 16. July 2026

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Wednesday, 15. July 2026

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

Announcing VillageSQL Server 0.0.5 (from VillageSQL)

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

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

Database Index Optimizer (from Shinguz's Blog)

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

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

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

Inside MySQL 9.7 LTS Features (from Percona Database Blog)

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

Making 768 servers look like 1 (from PlanetScale Blog)

Tuesday, 14. July 2026

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

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

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

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

Monday, 13. July 2026

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Saturday, 11. July 2026

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

Friday, 10. July 2026

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

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

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

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

Thursday, 09. July 2026

TiDB (from ODBMS.org)

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

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

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

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

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

Wednesday, 08. July 2026

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

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

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

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

Deadlocks and downtime (from PlanetScale Blog)

Tuesday, 07. July 2026

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

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

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

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

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

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

Monday, 06. July 2026

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

MariaDB Server Plugins: disabled functions (from MariaDB Foundation Blog)

Friday, 03. July 2026

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Thursday, 02. July 2026

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Announcing VillageSQL Server 0.0.5 ^{(from VillageSQL)}

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

TiDB ^{(from ODBMS.org)}

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Deadlocks and downtime ^{(from PlanetScale Blog)}

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Building a Modern Analytics Stack Around ClickHouse ^{(from Severalnines Blog)}

MariaDB Server Plugins: disabled functions ^{(from lefred's blog)}

MySQL Workbench to DBeaver Transition ^{(from Dave's MySQL Stuff)}

Manage long-running transactions for AWS DMS performance ^{(from AWS Database Blog)}

MySQL DBAs Are Landing Six-Figure Jobs in This Economy. And You Can Too! ^{(from Webyog Blog)}

The Galera Crossroads: Why PXC is the Lifeline for MariaDB Community Users ^{(from TusaCentral - MySQL Blogs)}

Community Docker Images: keeping the operator open without a vendor registry lock-in ^{(from Percona Database Blog)}