Planet for the MySQL Community

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

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

Published Saturday, 25. July 2026 16:01 • 4 hours ago

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

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

Published Friday, 24. July 2026 14:32 • a day ago

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

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

Published Friday, 24. July 2026 13:12 • a day ago

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

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

Published Friday, 24. July 2026 06:58 • a day ago

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

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

Published Friday, 24. July 2026 00:00 • 2 days ago

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

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

Published Thursday, 23. July 2026 19:55 • 2 days ago

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

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

Published Thursday, 23. July 2026 18:05 • 2 days ago

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

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

Published Thursday, 23. July 2026 11:31 • 2 days ago

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

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

Published Thursday, 23. July 2026 05:49 • 3 days ago

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

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

Published Thursday, 23. July 2026 00:00 • 3 days ago

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

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

Published Thursday, 23. July 2026 00:00 • 3 days ago

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

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

Published Wednesday, 22. July 2026 20:08 • 3 days ago

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

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

Published Wednesday, 22. July 2026 18:18 • 3 days ago

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

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

Published Wednesday, 22. July 2026 15:26 • 3 days ago

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

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

Published Wednesday, 22. July 2026 09:56 • 3 days ago

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

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

Published Wednesday, 22. July 2026 09:07 • 3 days ago

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

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

Published Wednesday, 22. July 2026 08:20 • 3 days ago

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

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

Published Wednesday, 22. July 2026 06:00 • 4 days ago

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

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

Published Wednesday, 22. July 2026 00:00 • 4 days ago

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

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

Published Tuesday, 21. July 2026 17:02 • 4 days ago

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

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

Published Tuesday, 21. July 2026 12:14 • 4 days ago

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

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

Published Tuesday, 21. July 2026 09:13 • 4 days ago

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

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

Published Tuesday, 21. July 2026 00:00 • 5 days ago

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

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

Published Monday, 20. July 2026 20:53 • 5 days ago

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

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

Published Monday, 20. July 2026 14:26 • 5 days ago

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

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

Published Monday, 20. July 2026 14:00 • 5 days ago

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

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

Published Monday, 20. July 2026 11:04 • 5 days ago

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

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

Published Monday, 20. July 2026 10:54 • 5 days ago

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

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

Published Monday, 20. July 2026 09:46 • 5 days ago

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

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

Published Monday, 20. July 2026 08:05 • 5 days ago

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

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

Published Monday, 20. July 2026 00:00 • 6 days ago

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

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

Published Monday, 20. July 2026 00:00 • 6 days ago

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

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

Published Monday, 20. July 2026 00:00 • 6 days ago

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

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

Published Friday, 17. July 2026 17:08 • 8 days ago

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

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

Published Friday, 17. July 2026 14:12 • 8 days ago

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

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

Published Friday, 17. July 2026 12:48 • 8 days ago

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

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

Published Friday, 17. July 2026 11:00 • 8 days ago

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

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

Published Friday, 17. July 2026 05:57 • 9 days ago

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

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

Published Friday, 17. July 2026 00:00 • 9 days ago

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

Compare MySQL MCP servers for Cursor and Claude: local Node and Python projects, multi-database DBHub, and hosted DataMCP access. [...]

Published Friday, 17. July 2026 00:00 • 9 days ago

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

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

Published Friday, 17. July 2026 00:00 • 9 days ago

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

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

Published Thursday, 16. July 2026 17:52 • 9 days ago

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

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

Published Thursday, 16. July 2026 17:38 • 9 days ago

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

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

Published Thursday, 16. July 2026 12:45 • 9 days ago

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

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

Published Thursday, 16. July 2026 12:00 • 9 days ago

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

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

Published Thursday, 16. July 2026 11:00 • 9 days ago

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

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

Published Thursday, 16. July 2026 07:22 • 10 days ago

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

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

Published Thursday, 16. July 2026 07:00 • 10 days ago

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

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

Published Thursday, 16. July 2026 06:00 • 10 days ago

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

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

Published Thursday, 16. July 2026 00:00 • 10 days ago

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

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

Published Wednesday, 15. July 2026 18:45 • 10 days ago

Announcing VillageSQL Server 0.0.5 ^{(from VillageSQL)}

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

Published Wednesday, 15. July 2026 18:15 • 10 days ago

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

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

Published Wednesday, 15. July 2026 17:13 • 10 days ago

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

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

Published Wednesday, 15. July 2026 17:00 • 10 days ago

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

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

Published Wednesday, 15. July 2026 14:55 • 10 days ago

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

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

Published Wednesday, 15. July 2026 12:00 • 10 days ago

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

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

Published Wednesday, 15. July 2026 09:32 • 10 days ago

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

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

Published Tuesday, 14. July 2026 14:03 • 11 days ago | Updated Wednesday, 15. July 2026 06:40 • 11 days ago

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

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

Published Wednesday, 15. July 2026 05:00 • 11 days ago

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

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

Published Wednesday, 15. July 2026 01:53 • 11 days ago

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

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

Published Wednesday, 15. July 2026 00:00 • 11 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 • 11 days ago

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

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

Published Tuesday, 14. July 2026 15:19 • 11 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 • 11 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 • 11 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 • 11 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 • 12 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 • 22 days ago | Updated Monday, 13. July 2026 14:38 • 12 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 • 12 days ago | Updated Monday, 13. July 2026 14:38 • 12 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 • 12 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 • 12 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 • 13 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 • 13 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 • 13 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 • 14 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 • 15 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 • 15 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 • 16 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 • 16 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 • 16 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 • 16 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 • 16 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 • 16 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 • 16 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 • 17 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 • 17 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 • 17 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 • 17 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 • 18 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 • 18 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 • 18 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 • 18 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 • 18 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 • 18 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 • 18 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 • 19 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 • 19 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 • 19 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 • 22 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 • 22 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 • 22 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 • 22 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 • 22 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 • 23 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 • 23 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 • 23 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 • 23 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 • 23 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 • 23 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 • 2 months ago | Updated Thursday, 02. July 2026 15:47 • 23 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 • 25 days ago | Updated Thursday, 02. July 2026 15:47 • 23 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 • 24 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 • 24 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 • 24 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 • 24 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 • 24 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 • 24 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 • 25 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 • 25 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 • 25 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 • 25 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 • 25 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 • 25 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 • 25 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 • 25 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 • 25 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 • 25 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 • 25 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 • 26 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 • 26 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 • 26 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 • 26 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 • 26 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 • 27 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 • 27 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 • 27 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 • 27 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 • 28 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 • 28 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 • 28 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 • 29 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 • 29 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 • 29 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 • 29 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 • 29 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 • 29 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 • 29 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 • 30 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 • 30 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 • 30 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 • 1 months 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 • 1 months 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 • 1 months 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 • 1 months 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 • 1 months 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 • 1 months 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 • 1 months 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 • 1 months 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 • 1 months 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 • 1 months 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 • 1 months 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 • 1 months 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 • 1 months 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 • 1 months 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 • 1 months 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 • 1 months 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 • 1 months 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 • 1 months 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 • 1 months 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 • 1 months 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 • 1 months 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 • 1 months 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 • 1 months 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 • 1 months 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 • 1 months 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 • 1 months 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 • 1 months 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 • 1 months 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 • 1 months 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 • 1 months 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 • 1 months 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 • 1 months 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 • 1 months 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 • 1 months 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 • 1 months 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 • 1 months 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 • 1 months 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 • 1 months 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 • 1 months 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

Planet for the MySQL Community

A blog / news aggregator for the MySQL Community / Ecosystem

Saturday, 25. July 2026

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

Friday, 24. July 2026

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

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

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

Postgres backups under the hood (from PlanetScale Blog)

Thursday, 23. July 2026

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

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

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

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

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

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

Wednesday, 22. July 2026

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Tuesday, 21. July 2026

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

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

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

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

Monday, 20. July 2026

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Friday, 17. July 2026

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

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

ClickHouse Schema Design and Data Modeling (from Severalnines Blog)

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

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

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

Best MySQL MCP Servers in 2026 (Compared) (from datamcp — MySQL and MCP Notes)

VillageSQL Extensions with versioning (from Ronald Bradford Blog)

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)

Dolt in Four Flavors (from DoltHub 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)

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

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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)}

Dolt in Four Flavors ^{(from DoltHub 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)}

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

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)}