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MariaDB Performance Claim : Technically Correct, but Misleading ^{(from J-F Gagné's MySQL Blog)}

A recent post on the MariaDB Foundation Blog has the impressive title How MariaDB 11.8 became about 3× faster on some in-memory workloads, fixing a regression dating back to 10.5. The claim is technically correct when viewed in isolation, but I believe it becomes misleading when the broader context is taken into account. The details are below. The post mentions a benchmark on 11.8 [...]

Published Monday, 02. November 2026 20:32 • 5 hours ago

Amazon Aurora MySQL 3.14 (compatible with MySQL 8.0.46) is generally available ^{(from AWS What's New)}

pStarting today, Amazon Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition 3 (compatible with MySQL 8.0) supports MySQL 8.0.46, which includes community MySQL fixes and Aurora-specific improvements. In addition to operational improvements, Aurora MySQL 3.14 introduces support for post-quantum TLS (PQ-TLS) key exchange, providing you with post-quantum cryptography options for encrypting your data in-transit. For detai [...]

Published Monday, 02. November 2026 17:00 • 9 hours ago

Amazon Aurora MySQL 8.4.10 is now generally available ^{(from AWS What's New)}

pStarting today, Amazon Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition 8.4 supports MySQL 8.4.10. We recommend upgrading to the newer minor versions to accept fixes for Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) in prior versions of MySQL and to benefit from bug fixes, performance improvements, and new functionality added by the MySQL community. For more details, refer to the Aurora MySQL 8.4 and MySQL 8.4.10 re [...]

Published Monday, 02. November 2026 17:00 • 9 hours ago

AWS contributes a large-transaction binary log optimization to MySQL ^{(from AWS Database Blog)}

When MySQL commits a large transaction, writing it to the binary log can freeze every other commit on the server for minutes. This post introduces Binary Log Optimization for Large Transactions (BOLT), an AWS contribution to community MySQL that makes commit latency independent of transaction size, speeds crash recovery, and improves throughput. [...]

Published Monday, 02. November 2026 16:57 • 9 hours ago

The Galera Crossroads, Part 2: Swap the Binaries, Keep the Cluster ^{(from TusaCentral - MySQL Blogs)}

pZero downtime, zero new hardware: converting MySQL Galera Cluster to Percona XtraDB Cluster node by node ♦/p pIn my previous blog I have highlighted how the ones that were using the Codership version of MySQL + Galera are at a crossroad and must take a decision about their freedom and future. /p pPercona with the new PXC 8.4.11 had made things very simple for users to keep shifting from [...]

Published Monday, 02. November 2026 16:33 • 9 hours ago

New book - SELECT to Ship: MariaDB for Application Developers ^{(from Programming Brain)}

I present my new book about SQL, MariaDB, and everything you need to take an application to production. [...]

Published Monday, 02. November 2026 15:45 • 10 hours ago

How VillageSQL does open source ^{(from VillageSQL)}

VillageSQL plans and builds VillageSQL Server, the open source MySQL fork that adds an extension framework, in public, and every contributor follows the same written rules. [...]

Published Monday, 02. November 2026 15:00 • 11 hours ago

MyVector Featured in the MySQL Ecosystem Project Spotlight of the Week ^{(from AskDba)}

p♦/pMyVector has been featured as the MySQL Ecosystem Project Spotlight of the Week in the MySQL group on LinkedIn. Thank you to Lilly Berry and the MySQL community team for the shout-out! This week, we’re spotlighting MyVector, an open source plugin that brings vector storage and similarity search capabilities to MySQL. Semantic search and recommendation […] [...]

Published Monday, 02. November 2026 14:01 • 12 hours ago

What’s New in TiDB 8.5.7: Partial Indexes, CPU Scheduling & Connection Limits ^{(from Mydbops Blog)}

Explore key updates in TiDB 8.5.7, including partial indexes, CPU-aware hot Region scheduling, per-user connection limits, and optimizer push-downs. [...]

Published Monday, 02. November 2026 01:07 • a day ago

Less Work per Query: Speeding Up Readyset’s Text Protocol ^{(from Readyset Blog)}

We made Readyset’s ad-hoc queries faster by doing less work for each query, and this post walks through some of those improvements and how we found them. [...]

Published Monday, 02. November 2026 00:00 • a day ago

October Product Update 2026 ^{(from Readyset Blog)}

October was a big release month at Readyset. The RDST Agent is here, your always-on, read-only database agent that watches Postgres and MySQL for queries getting slower or busier and hands you the fix. Plus our longest list of features and fixes in a release this year, new content, and more. [...]

Published Monday, 02. November 2026 00:00 • a day ago

MariaDB Foundation Newsletter – 1 November 2026 ^{(from MariaDB Foundation Blog)}

pInnoDB about 3x faster on in-memory workloads, the FOSDEM 2027 M-ecosystem devroom call for papers, parallel query execution, our first India meetup and 17 years of MariaDB Server./p pMariaDB Foundation Newsletter – 1 November 2026 appeared first on MariaDB.org/p [...]

Published Sunday, 01. November 2026 18:18 • a day ago

What MariaDB’s plugin API can carry: the HyperLogLog case ^{(from MariaDB Foundation Blog)}

pCan a complete analytic feature live outside the MariaDB server core? By “complete” I mean a column type, aggregates that build its values, and scalar functions that read them. I built the type_hll plugin, which adds HyperLogLog sketches to MariaDB, and I use it here to answer that question. The answer is mostly yes. One […]/p pWhat MariaDB’s plugin API can carry: the Hyper [...]

Published Sunday, 01. November 2026 15:28 • a day ago

Multi-Node Unused Index Verification ^{(from Percona Database Blog)}

pEvery MySQL schema that’s been around for a few years collects indexes nobody remembers adding. Some were for a report that was retired. Some came from an ORM migration. A few were added “just in case” and never used. They all cost something: extra writes on every INSERT and UPDATE, increased buffer pool pressure, larger … Continued/p pThe post Multi-Node Unused Index Verif [...]

Published Sunday, 01. November 2026 05:26 • 2 days ago

Still on MariaDB 10.6? Why your next upgrade is a security decision ^{(from MariaDB Foundation Blog)}

pLast week was about PHP. This week, check your database. On 21 October 2026, the PHP project shipped emergency fixes for two critical remote code execution flaws, CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619, known together as PHP2Shell. Exploit details leaked before the patch, attacks started within hours, and the only real fix was to upgrade PHP or shut […]/p pStill on MariaDB 10.6? Why your next u [...]

Published Saturday, 31. October 2026 13:07 • 3 days ago

How to Build a LlamaIndex Vector Store With TiDB ^{(from PingCAP Blog)}

pA LlamaIndex vector store is where your index keeps node embeddings, usually alongside the text chunks and metadata, so queries can find similar content. The default store lives in memory, so a restart or redeploy wipes the index and sends you back to your embedding provider to pay for the same corpus again. Production systems […]/p pThe post How to Build a LlamaIndex Vector Store With TiDB [...]

Published Friday, 30. October 2026 19:16 • 3 days ago

What’s New in PSMDB Sandbox: Six Months of Updates ^{(from Percona Database Blog)}

pEarlier this year, we introduced PSMDB Sandbox, a lightweight web UI that sits on top of our Terraform and Ansible automation for MongoDB. Since then, the project has changed a lot. It has a new name and repository, and it supports many more Percona products, MongoDB features and platforms. In this post, I will go … Continued/p pThe post What’s New in PSMDB Sandbox: Six Months of Updat [...]

Published Friday, 30. October 2026 11:14 • 4 days ago

MySQL Conversations from Brazil to Europe ^{(from The Oracle MySQL Blog)}

Every MySQL community gathering brings together different experiences: building applications, managing databases, troubleshooting performance, contributing code, or helping someone get started. During September and October, Heather VanCura connected with communities in Brazil and Europe to discuss MySQL’s future and the ways users and contributors can take part. Bringing Communities Together in São [...]

Published Friday, 30. October 2026 01:30 • 4 days ago

Village News: MySQL News + Events (29 October 2026) ^{(from VillageSQL)}

pWelcome back to Village News, our curated roundup of MySQL and database news. This week, plans for FOSDEM 2027 took shape, with a new M-Ecosystem devroom and MySQL Belgian Days opening their calls for papers./p pIf you want to get these updates, just subscribe to the blog./p pEnjoy!/p MySQL [...]

Published Thursday, 29. October 2026 20:29 • 4 days ago

MySQL Workbench 26.10: Advanced Authentication Support ^{(from The Oracle MySQL Blog)}

The MySQL team at Oracle is pleased to announce MySQL Workbench 26.10, the latest release of the new generation of our GUI administration and development tool for MySQL. Following the introduction of the new MySQL Workbench 26.7 earlier this year, we’ve been busy adding capabilities and improving the experience for developers and DBAs. This release focuses […] [...]

Published Thursday, 29. October 2026 17:54 • 4 days ago

Benchmarking Vector search in six database engines ^{(from Percona Database Blog)}

pWe loaded 990,000 OpenAI embeddings of 1,536 dimensions into six databases that index vectors themselves, built an HNSW index in each, and measured five things: time to a queryable index, storage and memory, recall against throughput, throughput under concurrent clients, and what happens when 10% of the corpus is rewritten. Same host, same container shape, … Continued/p pThe post Benchmarkin [...]

Published Thursday, 29. October 2026 16:46 • 4 days ago

Built to bend: Postgres’s inventor and a steward on what AI really needs ^{(from The Register)}

PARTNER CONTENT: Michael Stonebraker and Bruce Momjian on why enterprise AI needs a database that no one controls, and what PostgreSQL 19 says about the road ahead [...]

Published Thursday, 29. October 2026 15:00 • 4 days ago

Percona Operator for MySQL 1.3.0: autopilot tuning, zero-data-loss async failover, encrypted PITR ^{(from Percona Database Blog)}

p Percona Operator for MySQL 1.3.0 is out. This release moves three things forward for teams running MySQL on Kubernetes: the operator now tunes MySQL for you based on the pod resources, async clusters can fail over without losing data in flight, and point-in-time recovery works on clusters where binary logs are encrypted at rest. … Continued/p pThe post Percona Operator for MySQL 1.3.0 [...]

Published Thursday, 29. October 2026 14:24 • 4 days ago

Inner Join: Oleg Smirnov on parallel query execution ^{(from MariaDB Foundation Blog)}

pMariaDB Server has executed every query on a single thread since the beginning. That is changing. In the first episode of Inner Join, our new video series with the engineers of the MariaDB core team, I sat down with Oleg Smirnov of the Optimizer team to talk about parallel query execution: why it took this […]/p pInner Join: Oleg Smirnov on parallel query execution appeared first on MariaDB. [...]

Published Thursday, 29. October 2026 12:55 • 5 days ago

OurSQL Foundation Webinar: Beyond the Proxy with René Cannaò and Alkin Tezuysal ^{(from AskDba)}

p♦/pWe’re continuing to share knowledge from across the ecosystem! This time, we’re announcing a webinar with René Cannaò and Alkin Tezuysal from ProxySQL. Join us for the conversation! Register on our website: oursqlfoundation.org Date: November 3, 2026 · 10:00 AM ET · 16:00 CET · Online 🔗 Register for the webinar [...]

Published Thursday, 29. October 2026 09:10 • 5 days ago

Legacy CRM Database Migration to Cloud-Native | Mydbops ^{(from Mydbops Blog)}

Migrate a legacy CRM database to Aurora, Cloud SQL, Atlas or TiDB with CDC cutovers under 5 minutes, tested rollback and 24/7 DBA coverage. Compare approaches. [...]

Published Thursday, 29. October 2026 09:02 • 5 days ago

Getting Started with Percona PostgreSQL Operator ^{(from Percona Community Blog)}

I’m a long term user of MySQL with both asynchronous replication and synchronous with PXC. For a while now this has been on Kubernetes with either Helm deployments or more recently operator deployments. I felt it was time to dip my toe into the world of PostgreSQL as it’s become more and more popular (or certainly appears to be). [...]

Published Thursday, 29. October 2026 07:04 • 5 days ago

A TTL Cache Needs To Know the Query ^{(from Readyset Blog)}

Plenty of teams cache SQL with a TTL on Redis. But a key-value store doesn’t know what a query is, so it can’t refresh a hot key, collapse a miss stampede, or tell a 900 ms result from a 2 ms one. And when agents write the SQL at runtime, there’s no read path to wrap at all. [...]

Published Thursday, 29. October 2026 00:00 • 5 days ago

Introducing Automatic Failover and Multi Server Support ^{(from Readyset Blog)}

Starting in Readyset 1.33, you can hand Readyset a list of servers. It fails over automatically, resumes CDC on another server from the last GTID with no rows lost or applied twice, and spreads proxied queries across your replicas. MySQL with GTIDs; PostgreSQL covered with limits. [...]

Published Thursday, 29. October 2026 00:00 • 5 days ago

How to Extract Data from InnoDB, MyISAM, and MyRocks Files Without a Running Server ^{(from Percona Database Blog)}

pProbably everyone responsible for managing database servers at some point realizes that it would be helpful to have a tool capable of extracting data directly from raw database files. Something completely offline, without the need to have a running database server, and that would work with data directories, files, or binary backups (storage volume snapshots, … Continued/p pThe post How to Ex [...]

Published Wednesday, 28. October 2026 13:13 • 6 days ago

Getting Started With the MySQL REST Service Component ^{(from The Oracle MySQL Blog)}

In our previous blog, we introduced the MRS Component and discussed how it can help web developers access MySQL data with less backend code to maintain. Here, we’ll build a REST API for customer orders. Products, orders, and line items live in a relational schema, and MRS will present that related data as nested JSON […] [...]

Published Wednesday, 28. October 2026 10:23 • 6 days ago

Oracle adds native Snowflake service to OCI to ease data integration ^{(from InfoWorld)}

pOracle on Tuesday said it has partnered with Snowflake to make the latter’s AI Data Cloud available as a native service on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)./p pThe partnership, announced at Oracle’s ongoing AI World conference, aims to help enterprises reduce data movement between the two platforms and the associated costs while accelerating analytics and AI workloads, t [...]

Published Wednesday, 28. October 2026 09:58 • 6 days ago

Build an “ask the docs” app with Laravel 13 and MariaDB Vector ^{(from MariaDB Foundation Blog)}

pEarlier this month we wrote that Laravel 13 now supports MariaDB Vector natively. Mohamed Touhami Rhaima, one of the community contributors who made that happen, has now written a tutorial on how to use it, and recorded a video version. Why MariaDB Vector in Laravel With Laravel 13 and MariaDB 11.7 or later, you can […]/p pBuild an “ask the docs” app with Laravel 13 and MariaDB V [...]

Published Wednesday, 28. October 2026 07:54 • 6 days ago

MySQL at FOSDEM 2027: Join Us in Brussels ^{(from The Oracle MySQL Blog)}

MySQL will be at FOSDEM 2027, and we look forward to seeing you there! FOSDEM takes place on January 30–31, 2027. As the world’s largest open-source conference, it brings together developers and contributors from across the globe. Places for its community-driven breakout tracks, known as developer rooms or devrooms, are highly sought after. We’re grateful […] [...]

Published Wednesday, 28. October 2026 02:04 • 6 days ago

One Room for the Whole “M”: The M-Ecosystem Devroom Is Coming to FOSDEM 2027 ^{(from OurSQL Foundation Blog)}

pGood news for everyone who spends their days (and sometimes nights) with MySQL and its relatives: at FOSDEM 2027, we’ll all be in the same room./p pIt’s organized together by MySQL, MariaDB, Percona, VillageSQL, and OurSQL Foundation, and it’s open to the whole open source database ecosystem around them. The idea is simple: we’re one community, so let’s show up like o [...]

Published Wednesday, 28. October 2026 00:00 • 6 days ago

Newsletter #2: What Happened in October 2026 ^{(from OurSQL Foundation Blog)}

pHi there,/p pOctober was a busy month. We took part in All Things Open in Raleigh, launched two new series, MySQL in Practice and People Behind MySQL, and announced our first big event. More on all of that below./p pIn this issue:/p ul liDuckDB × MySQL Day: our first conference, Nov 17/li liA terabyte, four attempts, and one RESET MASTER/li li“MySQL is still the backbone”: Zongzhi Chen [...]

Published Wednesday, 28. October 2026 00:00 • 6 days ago

FOSDEM 2027: Bringing the M-Ecosystem Together ^{(from lefred's blog)}

One ecosystem, many projects, shared challenges. Join us in Brussels on Sunday, January 31, 2027, for the M-Ecosystem Devroom at FOSDEM! Building on the tradition of the MariaDB, MySQL & Friends Devroom, this new chapter expands its scope and ambition, bringing together developers and contributors from across the open-source database ecosystem to share knowledge, tackle […] [...]

Published Tuesday, 27. October 2026 15:41 • 6 days ago

Build an AI powered search engine with MySQL HeatWave and OCI GenAI ^{(from MySQL expert Diary)}

pDiscover a flexible architecture for building an AI-powered search engine for your WordPress blog. This guide demonstrates how to combine Python, OCI Generative AI, and MySQL HeatWave to generate embeddings, manage vector storage, and deliver fast semantic, keyword, and hybrid search results./p The post Build an AI powered search engine with MySQL HeatWave and OCI GenAI first appeared on Data Daz [...]

Published Tuesday, 27. October 2026 15:17 • 6 days ago

How MariaDB 11.8 became about 3× faster on some in-memory workloads, fixing a regression dating back to 10.5 ^{(from MariaDB Foundation Blog)}

pPublishing on behalf of Alessandro Vetere. Conclusions first: InnoDB in-memory workloads started paying for LRU management in 10.5, a performance regression, and I think the reason is that a clock, which was meant to say “eviction has started”, began ticking much earlier. A minimal fix would bring back the old meaning of the clock. The […]/p pHow MariaDB 11.8 became about 3× fast [...]

Published Tuesday, 27. October 2026 14:25 • 6 days ago

MySQL Belgian Days 2027 ^{(from The Oracle MySQL Blog)}

MySQL Belgian Days returns to Brussels on January 28–29, 2027, just before FOSDEM! Registration and the Call for Papers are now open, so save the dates, plan your trip, and consider sharing your experience with the community. Join us for two days of technical sessions, community discussions, and face-to-face conversations with MySQL engineers, contributors, developers, […] [...]

Published Tuesday, 27. October 2026 14:19 • 6 days ago

FOSDEM 2027: Bringing the M-Ecosystem Together ^{(from MariaDB Foundation Blog)}

pOne ecosystem, many projects, shared challenges. Join us in Brussels on Sunday, January 31, 2027, for the M-Ecosystem Devroom at FOSDEM! Building on the tradition of the MariaDB, MySQL & Friends Devroom, this new chapter expands its scope and ambition, bringing together developers and contributors from across the open-source database ecosystem to share knowledge, tackle […]/p pFOSDEM 202 [...]

Published Tuesday, 27. October 2026 14:08 • 6 days ago

How to Configure ProxySQL for AWS RDS Blue/Green Deployments ^{(from ProxySQL Blog)}

Configure ProxySQL 3.0.10 with dedicated hostgroups, validate an Amazon RDS green environment, and follow the switchover without waiting for DNS propagation. [...]

Published Tuesday, 27. October 2026 00:00 • 7 days ago

Black October: What Actually Happened, and What To Patch ^{(from Readyset Blog)}

“Black October” looked like AI swarms hacking the internet. We checked all 28 incidents against primary sources: most of the AI defends, and the damage came from long-lived keys in shared places. What to patch and rotate this week, starting with PgBouncer. [...]

Published Tuesday, 27. October 2026 00:00 • 7 days ago

How to change MySQL account passwords with no downtime ^{(from Ronald Bradford Blog)}

Changing the password of a MySQL account that an application uses was hard before MySQL 8.0. It is easy in MySQL 8.0 and later, thanks to two clauses of ALTER USER: RETAIN CURRENT PASSWORD and DISCARD OLD PASSWORD. [...]

Published Tuesday, 27. October 2026 00:00 • 7 days ago

How Vestiaire Collective achieved near-zero downtime RDS for MariaDB upgrades with Amazon RDS Blue/Green Deployments ^{(from AWS Database Blog)}

Vestiaire Collective, a global platform for pre-owned luxury fashion, achieved near-zero downtime upgrading its Amazon RDS for MariaDB fleet across two major versions. Learn how the team used Amazon RDS Blue/Green Deployments with AWS Countdown Premium to deliver a 94-second and then a 7-second switchover during peak sales season. [...]

Published Monday, 26. October 2026 17:19 • 7 days ago

Crafting an Extension Framework for MySQL: a talk from MySQL BR Conf 2026 ^{(from VillageSQL)}

The design choices behind the VillageSQL Extension Framework, from simpler functions to parameterized types to porting PostgreSQL’s hstore. Watch the MySQL BR Conf 2026 talk. [...]

Published Monday, 26. October 2026 14:00 • 7 days ago

Naming Things is Hard ^{(from One-Time MySQL Posts)}

Naming things is hard, especially in the context of database design and development. In this post, we explore the challenges and considerations involved in choosing meaningful names for tables, columns, and other database objects. [...]

Published Monday, 26. October 2026 03:00 • 8 days ago

MySQL Community Spotlight - Vincius Grippa ^{(from One-Time MySQL Posts)}

Meet Vinicius Grippa in the MySQL Community Spotlight, a brief Q and A introducing one of the people behind the community. [...]

Published Monday, 26. October 2026 01:00 • 8 days ago

MySQL 8.4 Data Paths ^{(from One-Time MySQL Posts)}

Follow one transaction or one query from the client down to the disk. Change a setting on the left and the path re-routes: watch which file gets a write(), which gets an fsync(), and what is still sitting in the OS cache when the client gets OK. [...]

Published Monday, 26. October 2026 00:00 • 8 days ago

The Man Who Benchmarks MariaDB Against the World ^{(from MariaDB Foundation Blog)}

pJonathan Miller has spent 27 years in database performance testing. He talks about TAF, the open source Test Automation Framework that benchmarks MariaDB, MySQL and PostgreSQL side by side, configuration provenance, and how to prove your patch made MariaDB faster./p pThe Man Who Benchmarks MariaDB Against the World appeared first on MariaDB.org/p [...]

Published Sunday, 25. October 2026 19:11 • 8 days ago

MySQL MCP Server v1.8.0 is out ^{(from AskDba)}

p♦/pA quiet release on paper: no new tools or flags, but it closes 37 reachable vulnerabilities, adds MySQL 26.7 and MariaDB 12.3 to CI, and keeps release candidates out of Homebrew. [...]

Published Saturday, 24. October 2026 06:46 • 10 days ago

MENDS MariaDB Full-Stack Architecture ^{(from Code For Geek)}

Following a browser edit back to the database means tracing the server-side steps between the page and the stored row. MENDS is an architecture that connects MariaDB rows to shared Deepstream records through a Node service. This article traces a row from MariaDB to a subscribed Deepstream record, then explains what to check before adapting […] [...]

Published Friday, 23. October 2026 19:38 • 10 days ago

Optimize OLTP and OLAP Workloads with MySQL HeatWave Autopilot ^{(from The Oracle MySQL Blog)}

As businesses grow, their databases must support both fast transactions and timely analytics. OLTP workloads handle everyday operations such as orders and payments, while OLAP workloads analyze large datasets for reporting and planning. Without appropriate optimization, growing data volumes and competing resource demands can slow transactions and delay insights. MySQL HeatWave supports online trans [...]

Published Friday, 23. October 2026 18:27 • 10 days ago

MySQL Community Engagement Starts at the Bug Tracker ^{(from MySQL :: under_the_hood)}

pbr/ppEarlier this year, Oracle outlined a welcome series of community initiatives—introducing new developer forums, active Slack channels, and expanded collaboration frameworks. For those of us who care deeply about the MySQL ecosystem, seeing renewed attention on community participation is genuinely encouraging. At the same time, for operators and DBAs managing production fleets, enthusiasm is te [...]

Published Sunday, 11. October 2026 11:18 • 23 days ago | Updated Friday, 23. October 2026 15:03 • 10 days ago

Managed Database Services for Parking & Smart City Platforms ^{(from Mydbops Blog)}

24/7 managed database services for parking and smart city platforms: sensor write tuning, PCI-DSS payment isolation, and multi-zone HA on MySQL and more. [...]

Published Friday, 23. October 2026 14:16 • 10 days ago

MySQL and MariaDB: Account Locking in Practice ^{(from One-Time MySQL Posts)}

Recently, I reviewed many users' applications on a database server to remove unused accounts from a legacy application. This is a simple function, but exists most differences in this context between MySQL 8.0 and MariaDB offer different approaches to database account security? [...]

Published Friday, 23. October 2026 00:00 • 11 days ago

Announcing ProxySQL 2.7.4: Security and Severe Bug Fixes Only ^{(from ProxySQL Blog)}

ProxySQL 2.7.4 contains only security fixes and severe bug fixes for the 2.7 LTS series, addressing protocol vulnerabilities, crashes, and transaction handling. [...]

Published Friday, 23. October 2026 00:00 • 11 days ago

Replication Manager 3.1.43 to 3.1.45: logical backups get closer to physical backup speed, welcome MCP in our API, welcome PostgreSQL, more dynamic resources on Cloud18, improved security ^{(from Signal18 Blog)}

♦ IN SHORT ul liFailover and switchover for PostgreSQL, like MariaDB. PostgreSQL servers are monitored as a cluster in three topologies, active-passive, WAL streaming and logical replication, with their own switchover, failover and rejoin path: 26 to 31 s for a WAL streaming switchover, 8 s for a failover, the former primary back by codepg_rewind/code; 2 to 3 s for a [...]

Published Thursday, 22. October 2026 18:44 • 11 days ago

What’s new in MariaDB Connector/J 4.0 ^{(from MariaDB Corporation Blog)}

MariaDB Connector/J 4.0.0 is now generally available. Connector/J is the JDBC driver for MariaDB Community Server and MariaDB Enterprise Server, […] [...]

Published Thursday, 22. October 2026 18:13 • 11 days ago

What’s New in MySQL NDB Cluster 9.x – Better Visibility and Control in MySQL NDB Cluster ^{(from The Oracle MySQL Blog)}

MySQL NDB Cluster 9.x continues to focus on the qualities that matter most in production: clear operational insight, predictable behaviour under failure, efficient application access, and faster recovery. This release series adds practical observability across the cluster, strengthens several exceptional paths, and expands the control available to users. Better visibility into cluster operation Dia [...]

Published Thursday, 22. October 2026 17:05 • 11 days ago

Benchmarking vector indexes in MySQL with vector-dev-bench ^{(from VillageSQL)}

vector-dev-bench measures recall, build time, and reads during writes for vector indexes in MySQL, MariaDB, and PostgreSQL, in minutes on a laptop. [...]

Published Thursday, 22. October 2026 14:00 • 11 days ago

MySQL Change Stream Applier (CSA): Fixing Replication Lag ^{(from Mydbops Blog)}

Learn how the Change Stream Applier (CSA) in MySQL 26.7 replaces the Multi-Threaded Applier to end worker starvation and speed up replication. [...]

Published Thursday, 22. October 2026 08:51 • 12 days ago

Readyset HA with ProxySQL and MySQL ^{(from Readyset Blog)}

A MySQL source, a replica and a ProxySQL in front of both. Adding a highly available Readyset cache behind one slow report query took two docker run commands and two INSERT statements, with no change to the application, the schema or MySQL. Here is the measurement, the routing, and how to check the cache is really serving. [...]

Published Thursday, 22. October 2026 00:00 • 12 days ago

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

pWelcome back to Village News, our curated roundup of MySQL and database news. This issue covers two weeks, with MySQL 26.10 landing at the end of them./p pIf you want to get these updates, just subscribe to the blog./p pEnjoy!/p MySQL News pNote: Aggregated MySQL news can be found/p [...]

Published Wednesday, 21. October 2026 19:52 • 12 days ago

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

The October 2026 MySQL releases are now available, including: MySQL 26.10 brings additional capabilities to Community Edition, new options for building REST applications, and improvements to database operations and developer tools. MySQL 9.7.4 and MySQL 8.4.13 continue maintenance updates for the supported LTS release lines. October MySQL Server releases MySQL 26.10 Innovation delivers new function [...]

Published Wednesday, 21. October 2026 19:10 • 12 days ago

Atarim joins MariaDB Foundation as a Silver sponsor ^{(from MariaDB Foundation Blog)}

pMariaDB Foundation is pleased to welcome Atarim as a Silver sponsor, strengthening the connection between MariaDB and the agencies and hosting providers shaping the web. Atarim is an AI web agency that plugs into existing web agencies and does the client work. Agencies point it at the sites they look after, and it designs, writes, […]/p pAtarim joins MariaDB Foundation as a Silver sponsor ap [...]

Published Wednesday, 21. October 2026 17:17 • 12 days ago

Introducing the MySQL REST Service Component: Now Generally Available ^{(from The Oracle MySQL Blog)}

With MySQL 26.10, we’re announcing the general availability of the MySQL REST Service (MRS) Component, an installable component that runs MRS directly inside MySQL Server. MRS: the MySQL REST Service Many modern applications, well, not just applications, but also tools, CLIs, CI pipelines, and automation, use HTTP and JSON to communicate with other systems. For […] [...]

Published Wednesday, 21. October 2026 10:02 • 13 days ago

MySQL 26.10 Is Here: New Capabilities for Developers and DBAs ^{(from The Oracle MySQL Blog)}

MySQL 26.10 is here! This release brings MySQL REST Service into the server, expands Community Edition capabilities, and adds more control for applications using JSON Relational Duality Views. Here’s a look at the highlights. MySQL REST Service joins the server MySQL REST Service (MRS) is now available as a MySQL Server component, enabling HTTPS endpoints […] [...]

Published Tuesday, 20. October 2026 22:31 • 13 days ago

Prove your PostgreSQL restore before a Kubernetes migration ^{(from Percona Community Blog)}

A migration plan can name every component and still leave the useful question unanswered: if the move fails, can the application work again? A dump file is not that answer. A restore into a new database, followed by the checks the application actually needs, is. [...]

Published Tuesday, 20. October 2026 14:55 • 13 days ago

MySQL JSON Duality Views: Now with granular write and ETAG controls ^{(from The Oracle MySQL Blog)}

JSON Duality Views (JDVs) let applications read and write JSON documents backed by relational tables (see our introductory JDV blog). MySQL handles the document-to-table mapping, reducing application code while preserving relational integrity. We still need to decide which parts of a document applications can change. Earlier JDVs offered limited choices: table writes were generally all-or-noth [...]

Published Tuesday, 20. October 2026 12:59 • 14 days ago

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

pMariaDB Foundation is pleased to welcome Amazic as a Silver Sponsor, adding a new supporter with strong connections across the software ecosystem. Amazic connects innovative software vendors with partners, developers and organisations looking to adopt modern technologies. Combining software distribution with technical enablement, training, content and community-focused events, Amazic helps bridge [...]

Published Tuesday, 20. October 2026 07:06 • 14 days ago

Four Attempts and One RESET MASTER — Migrating a Terabyte of Production MySQL to Kubernetes (MOCO) ^{(from OurSQL Foundation Blog)}

pUpdate, October 23, 2026: The MOCO maintainers at Cybozu responded to this case. Read their comment →/p pHistorically, we had four bare-metal MySQL clusters. Over time, we merged them into two: the big one (750 GB data directory, ~50 databases, largest table 100 GB) and a small one (200 GB data directory) with specific transaction isolation requirements./p pOn bare-metal, we ran Percona Server 8.0 [...]

Published Tuesday, 20. October 2026 00:00 • 14 days ago

MySQL vs PostgreSQL Internals (Part 3) – Row Locking ^{(from Zhao Song's Blog)}

As the third post in the MySQL vs PostgreSQL series, this post compares their row locks. Row locks are involved throughout transaction execution, and there is a lot to cover. It is not possible to discuss everything in a single post. This post starts with a specific query and compares how the two systems design and implement its execution. [...]

Published Tuesday, 20. October 2026 00:00 • 14 days ago

Troubleshooting MySQL with OpenTelemetry Metrics ^{(from The Oracle MySQL Blog)}

In the first post, we exported native MySQL telemetry to Prometheus. In the second, we organized those metrics around DBA questions. In the third, we built a Grafana dashboard that makes those questions visible. This final post shows how to use that dashboard when an application slows down or a database signal changes. The goal […] [...]

Published Monday, 19. October 2026 23:48 • 14 days ago

Upgrading MySQL HeatWave High Availability from MySQL 8.0.46 to MySQL 8.4 LTS ^{(from The Oracle MySQL Blog)}

Planning, compatibility testing, performance validation, application readiness, and rollback strategies for a large production deployment MySQL 8.0 reached its official End of Life (EOL) in April 2026 alongside the final release of version 8.0.46, but specific support extensions are available depending on your hosting environment. Oracle extended support for MySQL 8.0 instances in MySQL HeatW [...]

Published Monday, 19. October 2026 19:50 • 14 days ago

Analyzing Aurora MySQL issues with Kiro IDE and Aurora MySQL MCP server ^{(from AWS Database Blog)}

Learn how to use Kiro IDE with the Amazon Aurora MySQL MCP server to diagnose deadlocks and high IOPS events through natural language prompts, turning hours of manual, expert-dependent investigation into minutes of AI-guided root cause analysis. [...]

Published Monday, 19. October 2026 17:59 • 14 days ago

One Database, Two Models: Building AI-Friendly Java Applications With MySQL JSON Duality Views ^{(from DZone)}

pMySQL can now hand your application a complete JSON document, such as an order with its customer and line items, while the data stays in normal relational tables. You can even send the document back, and MySQL updates the right rows. I built a small Java app to see how far that goes. Reading got much simpler. Writing works too, but it comes with a few sharp edges you should know about before you u [...]

Published Monday, 19. October 2026 14:00 • 14 days ago

Make pg_stat_monitor stable again! ^{(from Percona Community Blog)}

pg_stat_monitor started as a fork of pg_stat_statements, built to be a more advanced replacement for it. It provides more detailed information about query execution and groups it in configurable time buckets, so you can look at what happened in a particular time window. It also powers the Query Analytics feature in Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM). However, over time other work took priority [...]

Published Monday, 19. October 2026 00:00 • 15 days ago

Speaking at All Things Open 2026 in Raleigh ^{(from AskDba)}

p♦/p30 years of open source database evolution — a talk at All Things Open 2026, Raleigh Convention Center, October 19-20. [...]

Published Sunday, 18. October 2026 10:00 • 16 days ago

MySQL - Extract numbers out of a string ^{(from MySQL :: under_the_hood)}

I recently came across a fascinating request on Experts Exchange where a user needed to extract numbers from a text string. While this is a simple one-liner in many programming languages, solving it directly inside a SQL codeSELECT/code query can be a bit tricky.To help them out, I built a lightweight, custom MySQL function that gets the job done perfectly. While it works great, there is always roo [...]

Published Friday, 30. October 2009 16:36 • over a year ago | Updated Sunday, 18. October 2026 04:37 • 16 days ago

Taming MySQL 8.4 Background Histogram Lock Wait Timeouts on Amazon RDS ^{(from MySQL :: under_the_hood)}

p MySQL 8.4 introduced several welcome optimizer enhancements, including automatic background histogram collection via the codecolumns_histogram_background_collection/code feature. By proactively sampling table data in the background, MySQL can make highly accurate cardinality estimates, improving execution plans for complex workloads with zero manual intervention./ppWhile this feature is a ma [...]

Published Saturday, 17. October 2026 13:33 • 16 days ago | Updated Saturday, 17. October 2026 13:57 • 16 days ago

TiDB Cloud BYOC Public Preview: Fully Managed Distributed SQL in Your AWS Account ^{(from PingCAP Blog)}

pTeams running distributed SQL in production face a trade-off. A managed service removes the work of upgrades, scaling, and backups, and it moves the database into the vendor’s cloud account. Self-managing TiDB keeps the database in your account and leaves every upgrade, backup, and incident to your team. Today, we are announcing the public preview […]/p pThe post TiDB Cloud BYOC Public Previ [...]

Published Friday, 16. October 2026 20:02 • 17 days ago

MariaDB Foundation: Exploring TidesDB Performance with TAF ^{(from MariaDB Foundation Blog)}

pTidesDB now exists inside MariaDB as a pluggable storage engine. With the TideSQL plugin available, anyone can load TidesDB into a MariaDB server and begin experimenting with it. But having a plugin is only the first step — you still need a practical, reproducible way to run real workloads against it, that’s where TAF comes […]/p pMariaDB Foundation: Exploring TidesDB Performance with [...]

Published Friday, 16. October 2026 19:31 • 17 days ago

“MongoDB was slow on Thursday”: answering the app team with mongo-health ^{(from Percona Database Blog)}

pMonday, 9:00. The app team writes: “MongoDB was slow on Thursday afternoon. What happened?” No alert fired, nobody looked at the time, and now it is your problem. The answer is usually in the FTDC. Every mongod writes a sample of its own metrics once per second into diagnostic.data, and MongoDB calls this Full Time … Continued/p pThe post “MongoDB was slow on Thursday” [...]

Published Friday, 16. October 2026 17:32 • 17 days ago

Vector Search in MySQL vs MariaDB: Look Beyond QPS ^{(from lefred's blog)}

A few days ago, I came across an interesting post by Hussain Patel on LinkedIn about HNSW index implementation differences in every vector databases. I was very surprised not to see MariaDB in the list. One day later, AskDBA (Alkin Tezuysal) published a benchmark article comparing vector search using MyVector on MySQL with the native […] [...]

Published Friday, 16. October 2026 15:30 • 17 days ago

When a Small Change Writes Too Much – How A Linux Kernel Improvement Can Strike You in PXC/Galera Workloads ^{(from Percona Database Blog)}

pWe’ve recently been dealing with an interesting customer case where a PXC version upgrade from 5.7 to 8.0 seemed to trigger a completely unexpected problem. Even though the workload and MySQL settings did not change, all PXC members began exhibiting sparse but regular bursts of massive disk writes. Yet the MySQL side workload statistics that … Continued/p pThe post When a Small Change Writes [...]

Published Friday, 16. October 2026 12:58 • 18 days ago

AliSQL 8.0.44-3 — Binlog Realtime Replication and DuckDB updates ^{(from One-Time MySQL Posts)}

AliSQL 8.0.44-3 adds Binlog Realtime Replication (BRR), updates the embedded DuckDB to 1.5.2, and fixes integration issues. It remains based on MySQL 8.0.44. [...]

Published Friday, 16. October 2026 00:00 • 18 days ago

Just Because You Can SELECT Everything Doesn’t Mean You Should ^{(from The Oracle MySQL Blog)}

Last week, I shared a meme in the MySQL Group on LinkedIn about using SELECT * in MySQL queries. Today, I’m backing up the punchline with something every joke desperately needs: a technical explanation. We’ve all written queries like this: It’s quick. It’s convenient. It lets you postpone remembering whether the column is called customer_name, […] [...]

Published Thursday, 15. October 2026 15:19 • 18 days ago

JavaScript in MySQL: Extending SQL, Not Moving the Application ^{(from Percona Database Blog)}

pAt Percona Live Europe 2026, Dmitry Lenev and I presented JavaScript in My Database? Over My Dead Query, the story of component_js_lang, the V8-based JavaScript engine for Percona Server for MySQL 8.4. That experience told us few things: The presentation was seen as “for developers” What most DBA or DevOps heard was “JavaScript in the … Continued/p pThe post JavaScript in MySQL: Extend [...]

Published Thursday, 15. October 2026 15:12 • 18 days ago

MariaDB Foundation Newsletter – 15 October 2026 ^{(from MariaDB Foundation Blog)}

pThe first half of October belonged to the ecosystem. The MariaDB Ecosystem Hub passed 200 entries six months after launch, Laravel 13 gained native MariaDB Vector support through community contributors, and Frappe and Solanica joined the Foundation as Silver Sponsors. The Foundation’s testing framework learned PostgreSQL, reproduced a regression reported by Mark Callaghan and confirmed […]/p [...]

Published Thursday, 15. October 2026 15:08 • 18 days ago

JavaScript in MySQL: Extending SQL, Not Moving the Application ^{(from TusaCentral - MySQL Blogs)}

p♦At Percona Live Europe 2026, Dmitry Lenev and I presented JavaScript in My Database? Over My Dead Query, the story of component_js_lang, the V8-based JavaScript engine for Percona Server for MySQL 8.4. That experience told us few things:/p ul liThe presentation was seen as “for developers”/li liWhat most DBA or DevOps heard was "JavaScript in the database" = "application logic in the database"/li [...]

Published Thursday, 15. October 2026 15:04 • 18 days ago

Different Starting Points, One Data Foundation: What’s New in TiDB Cloud ^{(from PingCAP Blog)}

pNobody approves a project called “add complexity.” It builds up one shard, one region, and one compliance requirement at a time, until a single database has turned into a fleet and the team running it has grown to match. Atlassian reached that point with Forge SQL, its hosted relational database service for developers, which ran […]/p pThe post Different Starting Points, One Data Foundation: [...]

Published Thursday, 15. October 2026 15:00 • 18 days ago

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

pWe are pleased to welcome Solanica, the company driving the development of OpenEverest, as a MariaDB Foundation Silver Sponsor. OpenEverest is an open-source platform for deploying and managing databases on Kubernetes. Its recently added MariaDB support gives developers and platform teams another way to bring MariaDB into their infrastructure, with deployment, high availability, backups and [̷ [...]

Published Thursday, 15. October 2026 07:09 • 19 days ago

Visualizing MySQL Telemetry with Grafana ^{(from The Oracle MySQL Blog)}

In the first post, we exported MySQL OpenTelemetry metrics directly to Prometheus. In the second, we used DBA questions to decide which metrics matter. This post turns those questions into a Grafana dashboard. The objective is not to display every available metric. It is to make the next investigation obvious. When workload changes, a DBA […] [...]

Published Thursday, 15. October 2026 04:10 • 19 days ago

MariaDB Foundation: Reproducing and Validating MDEV‑37992 with TAF ^{(from MariaDB Foundation Blog)}

pThanks to Mark Callaghan for filing MDEV‑37992. This regression only appears under specific LRU and buffer‑pool conditions, and requires a memory‑resident workload to expose. Using TAF, I reproduced the issue across 11.8, 12.3, and 13.1 using both parent commits and patched commits from MDEV‑33966. The fix restores expected throughput in all branches. The workload used […]/p pMariaDB Foundat [...]

Published Wednesday, 14. October 2026 20:38 • 19 days ago

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

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

Published Wednesday, 14. October 2026 20:01 • 19 days ago

Announcing VillageSQL Server 0.0.7 ^{(from VillageSQL)}

This release builds the server side of custom indexes and vector support. [...]

Published Wednesday, 14. October 2026 13:00 • 20 days ago

Oracle ACE Spotlight: Featured on #JoelKallmanDay ^{(from AskDba)}

p♦/pThe Oracle ACE Program published a spotlight feature on Alkin Tezuysal as part of #JoelKallmanDay 2026 — an annual celebration honoring the spirit of community, generosity, and knowledge-sharing that Oracle ACE Joel Kallman embodied throughout his career. The spotlight dives into Alkin’s 30+ years of open-source database experience — from his early career through his […] [...]

Published Wednesday, 14. October 2026 12:00 • 20 days ago

How fast is vector search inside MySQL? ^{(from AskDba)}

p♦/pBenchmarks · HNSW vector search MyVector adds approximate nearest-neighbor search to stock MySQL — no separate vector database. We put it on identical hardware across three MySQL versions, added MariaDB’s native vector type as a reference, and measured build time, throughput, latency, and recall on the same data. askdba/myvector · live dashboard at bench.myvector.online 548 […] [...]

Published Wednesday, 14. October 2026 05:20 • 20 days ago

“MySQL Is Still the Backbone”: Zongzhi Chen on Hot Rows, PolarDB, and the Agent Era ^{(from OurSQL Foundation Blog)}

pZongzhi Chen is an individual MySQL contributor who has worked on the MySQL source code for more than 10 years. He was a core member of the team that shipped the first release of PolarDB, created the open source Redis-compatible database Pika, and sits on the Founding Board of the OurSQL Foundation. We talked about why China runs on MySQL, what Singles Day does to a database, and what MySQL has to [...]

Published Wednesday, 14. October 2026 00:00 • 20 days ago

Meet the RDST Agent ^{(from Readyset Blog)}

When a query gets slow, a customer usually notices first. The RDST Agent catches it before that. It’s a free, always-on agent that runs on your computer, watches every query on your Postgres or MySQL database, and hands you the exact fix when something changes, the slow query, the plan, and the index to add. [...]

Published Wednesday, 14. October 2026 00:00 • 20 days ago

Bagisto MariaDB Vector Semantic Search ^{(from MariaDB Foundation Blog)}

pI’m always interested to see how MariaDB Vector is being used in real applications, beyond the usual demos and simple similarity-search examples. In this guest post, the team behind Bagisto takes a very practical look at semantic search for e-commerce using MariaDB Vector. What I particularly like is that they don’t stop at showing it […]/p pBagisto MariaDB Vector Semantic Search appeared fi [...]

Published Tuesday, 13. October 2026 19:58 • 20 days ago

MySQL Online DDL "Duplicate Key" Optimization ^{(from Libing Song's Blog)}

When you rebuild a table with MySQL’s Online DDL, the operation can fail partway through with a Duplicate Entry error: 1 2 mysql> alter table tt add c3 int, algorithm=inplace; ERROR 1062 (23000): Duplicate entry '1' for key 'tt.uk_c2' This is a long-standing, well-known problem — it has existed ever since Online DDL was introduced in MySQL 5.6, and it... [...]

Published Tuesday, 13. October 2026 08:30 • 21 days ago | Updated Tuesday, 13. October 2026 09:01 • 21 days ago

InnoDB for the fast. DuckDB for the heavy. Same connection for both. ^{(from dbtrail Blog)}

pUse InnoDB and DuckDB at the same time, on the MySQL you already run. Reports ran 10 times faster. Open source, no migration, no DuckDB to learn./p pThe post InnoDB for the fast. DuckDB for the heavy. Same connection for both. appeared first on dbtrail./p [...]

Published Monday, 12. October 2026 22:39 • 21 days ago

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

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

Published Monday, 12. October 2026 18:16 • 21 days ago

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

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

Published Monday, 12. October 2026 16:51 • 21 days ago

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

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

Published Monday, 12. October 2026 16:06 • 21 days ago

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

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

Published Monday, 12. October 2026 11:14 • 22 days ago

How a Linux fstrim Job Crashed MySQL: InnoDB Analysis ^{(from Mydbops Blog)}

A MySQL server crashed with an InnoDB semaphore wait over 600 seconds. See how a Linux fstrim job caused disk I/O stalls on thick storage and how to fix it. [...]

Published Monday, 12. October 2026 10:32 • 22 days ago

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

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

Published Monday, 12. October 2026 10:00 • 22 days ago

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

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

Published Monday, 12. October 2026 04:05 • 22 days ago

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Published Saturday, 10. October 2026 09:31 • 24 days ago

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

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

Published Friday, 09. October 2026 16:05 • 24 days ago

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

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

Published Friday, 09. October 2026 13:51 • 24 days ago

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

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

Published Friday, 09. October 2026 11:47 • 25 days ago

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

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

Published Friday, 09. October 2026 11:47 • 25 days ago

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

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

Published Friday, 09. October 2026 11:47 • 25 days ago

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

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

Published Friday, 09. October 2026 07:00 • 25 days ago

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

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

Published Friday, 09. October 2026 01:22 • 25 days ago

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

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

Published Thursday, 08. October 2026 18:50 • 25 days ago

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

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

Published Thursday, 08. October 2026 16:07 • 25 days ago

Persistent AI Agent Memory Explained: How Agents Remember Across Sessions ^{(from PingCAP Blog)}

pA coding agent that forgets your architecture decisions every time you open a new terminal is working exactly as designed. It is working as designed. Persistent AI agent memory is the external layer that stores and retrieves useful context across sessions, tools, and machines, so an agent in Claude Code, Codex, or Dify does not […]/p pThe post Persistent AI Agent Memory Explained: How Agents [...]

Published Thursday, 08. October 2026 16:06 • 25 days ago

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

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

Published Thursday, 08. October 2026 14:28 • 25 days ago

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

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

Published Thursday, 08. October 2026 10:35 • 26 days ago

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

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

Published Thursday, 08. October 2026 06:54 • 26 days ago

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

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

Published Thursday, 08. October 2026 00:00 • 26 days ago

What Is a Wire-Compatible SQL Caching Proxy? ^{(from Readyset Blog)}

A wire-compatible SQL caching proxy sits between your app and database, speaking the database's own protocol so you cache repeated queries by swapping a hostname, no cache keys, no invalidation logic, no application code changes. Here's how it works, how it differs from Redis, and how Readyset implements it for MySQL and Postgres. [...]

Published Thursday, 08. October 2026 00:00 • 26 days ago

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

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

Published Wednesday, 07. October 2026 16:20 • 26 days ago

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

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

Published Wednesday, 07. October 2026 12:21 • 27 days ago

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

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

Published Wednesday, 07. October 2026 06:52 • 27 days ago

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

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

Published Wednesday, 07. October 2026 03:04 • 27 days ago

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

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

Published Tuesday, 06. October 2026 20:30 • 27 days ago

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

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

Published Tuesday, 06. October 2026 19:54 • 27 days ago

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

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

Published Tuesday, 06. October 2026 17:23 • 27 days ago

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

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

Published Tuesday, 06. October 2026 17:19 • 27 days ago

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

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

Published Tuesday, 06. October 2026 16:28 • 27 days ago

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

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

Published Tuesday, 06. October 2026 15:45 • 27 days ago

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

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

Published Tuesday, 06. October 2026 14:16 • 27 days ago

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

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

Published Tuesday, 06. October 2026 13:00 • 28 days ago

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

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

Published Tuesday, 06. October 2026 12:51 • 28 days ago

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

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

Published Tuesday, 06. October 2026 05:54 • 28 days ago

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

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

Published Monday, 05. October 2026 20:30 • 28 days ago

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

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

Published Monday, 05. October 2026 20:18 • 28 days ago

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

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

Published Monday, 05. October 2026 17:00 • 28 days ago

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

MariaDB is pleased to announce the immediate availability of MariaDB Connector/C++ 1.1.9 and 1.0.8 and MariaDB Connector/ODBC 3.2.10 and 3.1.24. […] [...]

Published Monday, 05. October 2026 16:40 • 28 days ago

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

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

Published Monday, 05. October 2026 16:15 • 28 days ago

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

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

Published Monday, 05. October 2026 16:13 • 28 days ago

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

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

Published Monday, 05. October 2026 16:07 • 28 days ago

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

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

Published Monday, 05. October 2026 10:52 • 29 days ago

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

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

Published Monday, 05. October 2026 10:48 • 29 days ago

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

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

Published Monday, 05. October 2026 03:39 • 29 days ago

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

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

Published Monday, 05. October 2026 00:00 • 29 days ago

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

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

Published Friday, 02. October 2026 15:28 • 1 months ago

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

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

Published Friday, 02. October 2026 15:03 • 1 months ago

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

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

Published Friday, 02. October 2026 13:00 • 1 months ago

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

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

Published Friday, 02. October 2026 10:50 • 1 months ago

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

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

Published Friday, 02. October 2026 10:22 • 1 months ago

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

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

Published Friday, 02. October 2026 07:49 • 1 months ago

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

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

Published Friday, 02. October 2026 00:00 • 1 months ago

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

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

Published Thursday, 01. October 2026 20:06 • 1 months ago

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

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

Published Thursday, 01. October 2026 19:25 • 1 months ago

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

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

Published Thursday, 01. October 2026 17:25 • 1 months ago

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

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

Published Thursday, 01. October 2026 16:36 • 1 months ago

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

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

Published Thursday, 01. October 2026 13:00 • 1 months ago

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

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

Published Thursday, 01. October 2026 11:00 • 1 months ago

MyVector v1.26.9: Now Supporting MySQL 26.7 Innovation Release ^{(from AskDba)}

p♦/pMyVector v1.26.9 has been released with support for MySQL 26.7 — the first Innovation release under Oracle’s new calendar-based versioning scheme, which replaces traditional x.y.z numbering with a YYYY.M format. The release also gives the component-based architecture introduced in v1.26.5 a more rigorous test run across the new Innovation release track. MyVector is an open-source [… [...]

Published Thursday, 01. October 2026 10:00 • 1 months ago

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

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

Published Thursday, 01. October 2026 08:45 • 1 months ago

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

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

Published Thursday, 01. October 2026 06:01 • 1 months ago

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

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

Published Thursday, 01. October 2026 04:05 • 1 months ago

September Product Update 2026 ^{(from Readyset Blog)}

September was big for RDST: it's now Apache 2 licensed with free hosted inference, no API key required. We also hit 4.3M queries per second on a single node in our latest benchmark, 6.4x the prior release on the same hardware, plus password redaction, retry-safe error signaling, a batch of MySQL and Postgres cache-correctness fixes, and more. [...]

Published Thursday, 01. October 2026 00:00 • 1 months ago

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

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

Published Wednesday, 30. September 2026 22:06 • 1 months ago

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

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

Published Wednesday, 30. September 2026 20:25 • 1 months ago

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

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

Published Wednesday, 30. September 2026 17:00 • 1 months ago

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

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

Published Wednesday, 30. September 2026 16:39 • 1 months ago

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

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

Published Wednesday, 30. September 2026 16:00 • 1 months ago

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

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

Published Wednesday, 30. September 2026 14:28 • 1 months ago

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

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

Published Wednesday, 30. September 2026 13:21 • 1 months ago

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

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

Published Wednesday, 30. September 2026 00:03 • 1 months ago

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

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

Published Wednesday, 30. September 2026 00:00 • 1 months ago

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

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

Published Wednesday, 30. September 2026 00:00 • 1 months ago

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

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

Published Wednesday, 30. September 2026 00:00 • 1 months ago

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

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

Published Tuesday, 29. September 2026 18:25 • 1 months ago

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

pYour reports run on your production MySQL. DBTrail keeps a copy of your tables as Parquet files and lets you query it with DuckDB./p pThe post Introducing the MySQL Analytical Replica (Parquet + DuckDB) appeared first on dbtrail./p [...]

Published Tuesday, 29. September 2026 16:57 • 1 months ago

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

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

Published Tuesday, 29. September 2026 15:46 • 1 months ago

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

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

Published Tuesday, 29. September 2026 11:14 • 1 months ago

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

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

Published Tuesday, 29. September 2026 00:00 • 1 months ago

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

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

Published Tuesday, 29. September 2026 00:00 • 1 months ago

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

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

Published Tuesday, 29. September 2026 00:00 • 1 months ago

What's New in RDST: Free Inference and an Apache 2.0 License ^{(from Readyset Blog)}

RDST is now released under the Apache 2.0 License with free, Readyset-hosted unlimited inference. [...]

Published Tuesday, 29. September 2026 00:00 • 1 months ago

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

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

Published Monday, 28. September 2026 17:22 • 1 months ago

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

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

Published Monday, 28. September 2026 13:56 • 1 months ago

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

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

Published Monday, 28. September 2026 12:50 • 1 months ago

Handling hot shards ^{(from PlanetScale (Vitess and MySQL))}

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

Published Monday, 28. September 2026 00:00 • 1 months ago

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

p♦/pAlkin Tezuysal co-presented “Managed ProxySQL in Your Own AWS Account” with René Cannaò (CEO of ProxySQL) at MySQL BR Conf 2026 in São Paulo, Brazil on September 26, 2026. The session covered ProxySQL.Cloud — a bring-your-own-cloud architecture that lets users run managed ProxySQL instances in their own AWS accounts. Topics included configuration, day-to-day operations, and [… [...]

Published Saturday, 26. September 2026 18:00 • 1 months ago

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

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

Published Saturday, 26. September 2026 08:31 • 1 months ago

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

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

Published Friday, 25. September 2026 13:36 • 1 months ago

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

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

Published Friday, 25. September 2026 12:00 • 1 months ago

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

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

Published Friday, 25. September 2026 11:58 • 1 months ago

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

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

Published Friday, 25. September 2026 11:50 • 1 months ago

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

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

Published Friday, 25. September 2026 11:16 • 1 months ago

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

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

Published Friday, 25. September 2026 11:10 • 1 months ago

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

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

Published Friday, 25. September 2026 11:00 • 1 months ago

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

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

Published Thursday, 24. September 2026 20:52 • 1 months ago

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

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

Published Thursday, 24. September 2026 16:00 • 1 months ago

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

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

Published Thursday, 24. September 2026 14:11 • 1 months ago

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

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

Published Thursday, 24. September 2026 14:00 • 1 months ago

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

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

Published Thursday, 24. September 2026 11:09 • 1 months ago

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

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

Published Thursday, 24. September 2026 10:00 • 1 months ago

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

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

Published Wednesday, 23. September 2026 22:22 • 1 months ago

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

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

Published Wednesday, 23. September 2026 18:01 • 1 months ago

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

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

Published Wednesday, 23. September 2026 15:35 • 1 months ago

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

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

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

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

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

Published Wednesday, 23. September 2026 10:10 • 1 months ago

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

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

Published Wednesday, 23. September 2026 07:57 • 1 months ago

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

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

Published Wednesday, 23. September 2026 04:16 • 1 months ago

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

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

Published Wednesday, 23. September 2026 00:00 • 1 months ago

Hardening EmergencyReparentShard in v25 ^{(from Vitess)}

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

Published Wednesday, 23. September 2026 00:00 • 1 months ago

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

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

Published Tuesday, 22. September 2026 02:00 • 1 months ago | Updated Tuesday, 22. September 2026 16:06 • 1 months ago

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

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

Published Tuesday, 22. September 2026 13:48 • 1 months ago

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

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

Published Tuesday, 22. September 2026 00:00 • 1 months ago

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

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

Published Monday, 21. September 2026 21:35 • 1 months ago

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

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

Published Monday, 21. September 2026 16:58 • 1 months ago

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

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

Published Monday, 21. September 2026 15:00 • 1 months ago

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

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

Published Monday, 21. September 2026 13:25 • 1 months ago

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

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

Published Monday, 21. September 2026 09:57 • 1 months ago

Cache Invalidation for SQL Queries: How To Stop Writing It Yourself ^{(from Readyset Blog)}

Cache invalidation is the hardest part of caching SQL queries. Here's why TTLs and manual keys break, and how incremental view maintenance avoids both. [...]

Published Monday, 21. September 2026 00:00 • 1 months ago

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

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

Published Sunday, 20. September 2026 00:00 • 1 months ago

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

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

Published Friday, 18. September 2026 19:00 • 2 months ago

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

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

Published Friday, 18. September 2026 17:13 • 2 months ago

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

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

Published Friday, 18. September 2026 15:44 • 2 months ago

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

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

Published Friday, 18. September 2026 12:34 • 2 months ago

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

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

Published Friday, 18. September 2026 12:09 • 2 months ago

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

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

Published Thursday, 17. September 2026 19:32 • 2 months ago

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

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

Published Thursday, 17. September 2026 16:14 • 2 months ago

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

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

Published Thursday, 17. September 2026 13:09 • 2 months ago

Using DuckDB inside MySQL ^{(from VillageSQL)}

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

Published Thursday, 17. September 2026 13:00 • 2 months ago

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

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

Published Thursday, 17. September 2026 11:50 • 2 months ago

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

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

Published Thursday, 17. September 2026 06:43 • 2 months ago

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

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

Published Thursday, 17. September 2026 06:30 • 2 months ago

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

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

Published Thursday, 17. September 2026 05:29 • 2 months ago

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

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

Published Wednesday, 16. September 2026 16:06 • 2 months ago

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

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

Published Wednesday, 16. September 2026 16:00 • 2 months ago

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

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

Published Wednesday, 16. September 2026 14:07 • 2 months ago

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

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

Published Wednesday, 16. September 2026 13:07 • 2 months ago

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

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

Published Wednesday, 16. September 2026 11:47 • 2 months ago

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

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

Published Wednesday, 16. September 2026 10:57 • 2 months ago

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

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

Published Wednesday, 16. September 2026 10:31 • 2 months ago

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

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

Published Wednesday, 16. September 2026 10:12 • 2 months ago

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

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

Published Wednesday, 16. September 2026 08:57 • 2 months ago

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

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

Published Wednesday, 16. September 2026 00:00 • 2 months ago

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

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

Published Tuesday, 15. September 2026 22:43 • 2 months ago

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

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

Published Tuesday, 15. September 2026 17:20 • 2 months ago

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

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

Published Tuesday, 15. September 2026 17:03 • 2 months ago

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

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

Published Tuesday, 15. September 2026 16:07 • 2 months ago

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

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

Published Tuesday, 15. September 2026 16:02 • 2 months ago

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

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

Published Tuesday, 15. September 2026 11:52 • 2 months ago

MyVector at the MySQL Ecosystem Spotlight, Percona Live Amsterdam 2026 ^{(from AskDba)}

p♦/pMyVector was featured at the inaugural MySQL Ecosystem Spotlight at Percona Live Amsterdam (September 9–11, 2026) — a shared community booth showcasing open-source MySQL projects, organized by the OurSQL Foundation. Alkin Tezuysal, founder of MyVector, represented the project alongside four other MySQL ecosystem tools. On the experience, he said: “The best way to unite the […] [...]

Published Tuesday, 15. September 2026 10:00 • 2 months ago

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

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

Published Tuesday, 15. September 2026 00:00 • 2 months ago

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

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

Published Monday, 14. September 2026 22:19 • 2 months ago

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

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

Published Monday, 14. September 2026 16:35 • 2 months ago

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

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

Published Monday, 14. September 2026 14:57 • 2 months ago

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

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

Published Monday, 14. September 2026 13:36 • 2 months ago

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

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

Published Wednesday, 08. April 2026 02:00 • 7 months ago | Updated Monday, 14. September 2026 11:24 • 2 months ago

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

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

Published Monday, 14. September 2026 09:33 • 2 months ago

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

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

Published Monday, 14. September 2026 09:12 • 2 months ago

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

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

Published Monday, 14. September 2026 00:00 • 2 months ago

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

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

Published Sunday, 13. September 2026 14:07 • 2 months ago

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

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

Published Sunday, 13. September 2026 11:10 • 2 months ago

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

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

Published Sunday, 13. September 2026 00:00 • 2 months ago

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

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

Published Saturday, 12. September 2026 17:40 • 2 months ago

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

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

Published Saturday, 12. September 2026 15:00 • 2 months ago

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

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

Published Saturday, 12. September 2026 14:05 • 2 months ago

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

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

Published Saturday, 12. September 2026 11:06 • 2 months ago

Dynamic Data Masking in Percona Server for MySQL: Guide ^{(from Mydbops Blog)}

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

Published Friday, 11. September 2026 18:16 • 2 months ago

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

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

Published Friday, 11. September 2026 17:40 • 2 months ago

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

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

Published Friday, 11. September 2026 11:20 • 2 months ago

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

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

Published Friday, 11. September 2026 11:20 • 2 months ago

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

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

Published Friday, 11. September 2026 00:00 • 2 months ago

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

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

Published Thursday, 10. September 2026 15:56 • 2 months ago

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

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

Published Thursday, 10. September 2026 13:27 • 2 months ago

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

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

Published Thursday, 10. September 2026 12:53 • 2 months ago

MONyog vs SolarWinds ^{(from Webyog Blog)}

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

Published Thursday, 10. September 2026 12:16 • 2 months ago

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

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

Published Thursday, 10. September 2026 12:00 • 2 months ago

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

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

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

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

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

Published Thursday, 10. September 2026 08:14 • 2 months ago

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

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

Published Thursday, 10. September 2026 02:05 • 2 months ago

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

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

Published Wednesday, 09. September 2026 23:32 • 2 months ago

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

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

Published Wednesday, 09. September 2026 16:08 • 2 months ago

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

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

Published Wednesday, 09. September 2026 15:55 • 2 months ago

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

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

Published Wednesday, 09. September 2026 09:18 • 2 months ago

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

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

Published Wednesday, 09. September 2026 07:00 • 2 months ago

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

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

Published Tuesday, 08. September 2026 20:09 • 2 months ago

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

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

Published Tuesday, 08. September 2026 16:00 • 2 months ago

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

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

Published Tuesday, 08. September 2026 15:26 • 2 months ago

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

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

Published Tuesday, 08. September 2026 13:00 • 2 months ago

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

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

Published Tuesday, 08. September 2026 11:48 • 2 months ago

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

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

Published Tuesday, 08. September 2026 09:27 • 2 months ago

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

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

Published Monday, 07. September 2026 17:50 • 2 months ago

Planet for the MySQL Community

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

Monday, 02. November 2026

MariaDB Performance Claim : Technically Correct, but Misleading (from J-F Gagné's MySQL Blog)

Amazon Aurora MySQL 3.14 (compatible with MySQL 8.0.46) is generally available (from AWS What's New)

Amazon Aurora MySQL 8.4.10 is now generally available (from AWS What's New)

AWS contributes a large-transaction binary log optimization to MySQL (from AWS Database Blog)

The Galera Crossroads, Part 2: Swap the Binaries, Keep the Cluster (from TusaCentral - MySQL Blogs)

New book - SELECT to Ship: MariaDB for Application Developers (from Programming Brain)

How VillageSQL does open source (from VillageSQL)

MyVector Featured in the MySQL Ecosystem Project Spotlight of the Week (from AskDba)

What’s New in TiDB 8.5.7: Partial Indexes, CPU Scheduling & Connection Limits (from Mydbops Blog)

Less Work per Query: Speeding Up Readyset’s Text Protocol (from Readyset Blog)

October Product Update 2026 (from Readyset Blog)

Sunday, 01. November 2026

MariaDB Foundation Newsletter – 1 November 2026 (from MariaDB Foundation Blog)

What MariaDB’s plugin API can carry: the HyperLogLog case (from MariaDB Foundation Blog)

Multi-Node Unused Index Verification (from Percona Database Blog)

Saturday, 31. October 2026

Still on MariaDB 10.6? Why your next upgrade is a security decision (from MariaDB Foundation Blog)

Friday, 30. October 2026

How to Build a LlamaIndex Vector Store With TiDB (from PingCAP Blog)

What’s New in PSMDB Sandbox: Six Months of Updates (from Percona Database Blog)

MySQL Conversations from Brazil to Europe (from The Oracle MySQL Blog)

Thursday, 29. October 2026

Village News: MySQL News + Events (29 October 2026) (from VillageSQL)

MySQL Workbench 26.10: Advanced Authentication Support (from The Oracle MySQL Blog)

Benchmarking Vector search in six database engines (from Percona Database Blog)

Built to bend: Postgres’s inventor and a steward on what AI really needs (from The Register)

Percona Operator for MySQL 1.3.0: autopilot tuning, zero-data-loss async failover, encrypted PITR (from Percona Database Blog)

Inner Join: Oleg Smirnov on parallel query execution (from MariaDB Foundation Blog)

OurSQL Foundation Webinar: Beyond the Proxy with René Cannaò and Alkin Tezuysal (from AskDba)

Legacy CRM Database Migration to Cloud-Native | Mydbops (from Mydbops Blog)

Getting Started with Percona PostgreSQL Operator (from Percona Community Blog)

A TTL Cache Needs To Know the Query (from Readyset Blog)

Introducing Automatic Failover and Multi Server Support (from Readyset Blog)

Wednesday, 28. October 2026

How to Extract Data from InnoDB, MyISAM, and MyRocks Files Without a Running Server (from Percona Database Blog)

Getting Started With the MySQL REST Service Component (from The Oracle MySQL Blog)

Oracle adds native Snowflake service to OCI to ease data integration (from InfoWorld)

Build an “ask the docs” app with Laravel 13 and MariaDB Vector (from MariaDB Foundation Blog)

MySQL at FOSDEM 2027: Join Us in Brussels (from The Oracle MySQL Blog)

One Room for the Whole “M”: The M-Ecosystem Devroom Is Coming to FOSDEM 2027 (from OurSQL Foundation Blog)

Newsletter #2: What Happened in October 2026 (from OurSQL Foundation Blog)

Tuesday, 27. October 2026

FOSDEM 2027: Bringing the M-Ecosystem Together (from lefred's blog)

Build an AI powered search engine with MySQL HeatWave and OCI GenAI (from MySQL expert Diary)

How MariaDB 11.8 became about 3× faster on some in-memory workloads, fixing a regression dating back to 10.5 (from MariaDB Foundation Blog)

MySQL Belgian Days 2027 (from The Oracle MySQL Blog)

FOSDEM 2027: Bringing the M-Ecosystem Together (from MariaDB Foundation Blog)

How to Configure ProxySQL for AWS RDS Blue/Green Deployments (from ProxySQL Blog)

Black October: What Actually Happened, and What To Patch (from Readyset Blog)

How to change MySQL account passwords with no downtime (from Ronald Bradford Blog)

Monday, 26. October 2026

How Vestiaire Collective achieved near-zero downtime RDS for MariaDB upgrades with Amazon RDS Blue/Green Deployments (from AWS Database Blog)

Crafting an Extension Framework for MySQL: a talk from MySQL BR Conf 2026 (from VillageSQL)

Naming Things is Hard (from One-Time MySQL Posts)

MySQL Community Spotlight - Vincius Grippa (from One-Time MySQL Posts)

MySQL 8.4 Data Paths (from One-Time MySQL Posts)

Sunday, 25. October 2026

The Man Who Benchmarks MariaDB Against the World (from MariaDB Foundation Blog)

Saturday, 24. October 2026

MySQL MCP Server v1.8.0 is out (from AskDba)

Friday, 23. October 2026

MENDS MariaDB Full-Stack Architecture (from Code For Geek)

Optimize OLTP and OLAP Workloads with MySQL HeatWave Autopilot (from The Oracle MySQL Blog)

MySQL Community Engagement Starts at the Bug Tracker (from MySQL :: under_the_hood)

Managed Database Services for Parking & Smart City Platforms (from Mydbops Blog)

MySQL and MariaDB: Account Locking in Practice (from One-Time MySQL Posts)

Announcing ProxySQL 2.7.4: Security and Severe Bug Fixes Only (from ProxySQL Blog)

Thursday, 22. October 2026

Replication Manager 3.1.43 to 3.1.45: logical backups get closer to physical backup speed, welcome MCP in our API, welcome PostgreSQL, more dynamic resources on Cloud18, improved security (from Signal18 Blog)

What’s new in MariaDB Connector/J 4.0 (from MariaDB Corporation Blog)

What’s New in MySQL NDB Cluster 9.x – Better Visibility and Control in MySQL NDB Cluster (from The Oracle MySQL Blog)

Benchmarking vector indexes in MySQL with vector-dev-bench (from VillageSQL)

MySQL Change Stream Applier (CSA): Fixing Replication Lag (from Mydbops Blog)

Readyset HA with ProxySQL and MySQL (from Readyset Blog)

Wednesday, 21. October 2026

Village News: MySQL News + Events (21 October 2026) (from VillageSQL)

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

MariaDB Performance Claim : Technically Correct, but Misleading ^{(from J-F Gagné's MySQL Blog)}

Amazon Aurora MySQL 3.14 (compatible with MySQL 8.0.46) is generally available ^{(from AWS What's New)}

Amazon Aurora MySQL 8.4.10 is now generally available ^{(from AWS What's New)}

AWS contributes a large-transaction binary log optimization to MySQL ^{(from AWS Database Blog)}

The Galera Crossroads, Part 2: Swap the Binaries, Keep the Cluster ^{(from TusaCentral - MySQL Blogs)}

New book - SELECT to Ship: MariaDB for Application Developers ^{(from Programming Brain)}

How VillageSQL does open source ^{(from VillageSQL)}

MyVector Featured in the MySQL Ecosystem Project Spotlight of the Week ^{(from AskDba)}

What’s New in TiDB 8.5.7: Partial Indexes, CPU Scheduling & Connection Limits ^{(from Mydbops Blog)}

Less Work per Query: Speeding Up Readyset’s Text Protocol ^{(from Readyset Blog)}

October Product Update 2026 ^{(from Readyset Blog)}

MariaDB Foundation Newsletter – 1 November 2026 ^{(from MariaDB Foundation Blog)}

What MariaDB’s plugin API can carry: the HyperLogLog case ^{(from MariaDB Foundation Blog)}

Multi-Node Unused Index Verification ^{(from Percona Database Blog)}

Still on MariaDB 10.6? Why your next upgrade is a security decision ^{(from MariaDB Foundation Blog)}

How to Build a LlamaIndex Vector Store With TiDB ^{(from PingCAP Blog)}

What’s New in PSMDB Sandbox: Six Months of Updates ^{(from Percona Database Blog)}

MySQL Conversations from Brazil to Europe ^{(from The Oracle MySQL Blog)}

Village News: MySQL News + Events (29 October 2026) ^{(from VillageSQL)}

MySQL Workbench 26.10: Advanced Authentication Support ^{(from The Oracle MySQL Blog)}

Benchmarking Vector search in six database engines ^{(from Percona Database Blog)}

Built to bend: Postgres’s inventor and a steward on what AI really needs ^{(from The Register)}

Percona Operator for MySQL 1.3.0: autopilot tuning, zero-data-loss async failover, encrypted PITR ^{(from Percona Database Blog)}

Inner Join: Oleg Smirnov on parallel query execution ^{(from MariaDB Foundation Blog)}

OurSQL Foundation Webinar: Beyond the Proxy with René Cannaò and Alkin Tezuysal ^{(from AskDba)}

Legacy CRM Database Migration to Cloud-Native | Mydbops ^{(from Mydbops Blog)}

Getting Started with Percona PostgreSQL Operator ^{(from Percona Community Blog)}

A TTL Cache Needs To Know the Query ^{(from Readyset Blog)}

Introducing Automatic Failover and Multi Server Support ^{(from Readyset Blog)}

How to Extract Data from InnoDB, MyISAM, and MyRocks Files Without a Running Server ^{(from Percona Database Blog)}

Getting Started With the MySQL REST Service Component ^{(from The Oracle MySQL Blog)}

Oracle adds native Snowflake service to OCI to ease data integration ^{(from InfoWorld)}

Build an “ask the docs” app with Laravel 13 and MariaDB Vector ^{(from MariaDB Foundation Blog)}

MySQL at FOSDEM 2027: Join Us in Brussels ^{(from The Oracle MySQL Blog)}

One Room for the Whole “M”: The M-Ecosystem Devroom Is Coming to FOSDEM 2027 ^{(from OurSQL Foundation Blog)}

Newsletter #2: What Happened in October 2026 ^{(from OurSQL Foundation Blog)}

FOSDEM 2027: Bringing the M-Ecosystem Together ^{(from lefred's blog)}

Build an AI powered search engine with MySQL HeatWave and OCI GenAI ^{(from MySQL expert Diary)}

How MariaDB 11.8 became about 3× faster on some in-memory workloads, fixing a regression dating back to 10.5 ^{(from MariaDB Foundation Blog)}

MySQL Belgian Days 2027 ^{(from The Oracle MySQL Blog)}

FOSDEM 2027: Bringing the M-Ecosystem Together ^{(from MariaDB Foundation Blog)}

How to Configure ProxySQL for AWS RDS Blue/Green Deployments ^{(from ProxySQL Blog)}

Black October: What Actually Happened, and What To Patch ^{(from Readyset Blog)}

How to change MySQL account passwords with no downtime ^{(from Ronald Bradford Blog)}

How Vestiaire Collective achieved near-zero downtime RDS for MariaDB upgrades with Amazon RDS Blue/Green Deployments ^{(from AWS Database Blog)}

Crafting an Extension Framework for MySQL: a talk from MySQL BR Conf 2026 ^{(from VillageSQL)}

Naming Things is Hard ^{(from One-Time MySQL Posts)}

MySQL Community Spotlight - Vincius Grippa ^{(from One-Time MySQL Posts)}

MySQL 8.4 Data Paths ^{(from One-Time MySQL Posts)}

The Man Who Benchmarks MariaDB Against the World ^{(from MariaDB Foundation Blog)}

MySQL MCP Server v1.8.0 is out ^{(from AskDba)}

MENDS MariaDB Full-Stack Architecture ^{(from Code For Geek)}

Optimize OLTP and OLAP Workloads with MySQL HeatWave Autopilot ^{(from The Oracle MySQL Blog)}

MySQL Community Engagement Starts at the Bug Tracker ^{(from MySQL :: under_the_hood)}

Managed Database Services for Parking & Smart City Platforms ^{(from Mydbops Blog)}

MySQL and MariaDB: Account Locking in Practice ^{(from One-Time MySQL Posts)}

Announcing ProxySQL 2.7.4: Security and Severe Bug Fixes Only ^{(from ProxySQL Blog)}

Replication Manager 3.1.43 to 3.1.45: logical backups get closer to physical backup speed, welcome MCP in our API, welcome PostgreSQL, more dynamic resources on Cloud18, improved security ^{(from Signal18 Blog)}

What’s new in MariaDB Connector/J 4.0 ^{(from MariaDB Corporation Blog)}

What’s New in MySQL NDB Cluster 9.x – Better Visibility and Control in MySQL NDB Cluster ^{(from The Oracle MySQL Blog)}

Benchmarking vector indexes in MySQL with vector-dev-bench ^{(from VillageSQL)}

MySQL Change Stream Applier (CSA): Fixing Replication Lag ^{(from Mydbops Blog)}

Readyset HA with ProxySQL and MySQL ^{(from Readyset Blog)}

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

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

Atarim joins MariaDB Foundation as a Silver sponsor ^{(from MariaDB Foundation Blog)}

Introducing the MySQL REST Service Component: Now Generally Available ^{(from The Oracle MySQL Blog)}

MySQL 26.10 Is Here: New Capabilities for Developers and DBAs ^{(from The Oracle MySQL Blog)}

Prove your PostgreSQL restore before a Kubernetes migration ^{(from Percona Community Blog)}

MySQL JSON Duality Views: Now with granular write and ETAG controls ^{(from The Oracle MySQL Blog)}

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

Four Attempts and One RESET MASTER — Migrating a Terabyte of Production MySQL to Kubernetes (MOCO) ^{(from OurSQL Foundation Blog)}

MySQL vs PostgreSQL Internals (Part 3) – Row Locking ^{(from Zhao Song's Blog)}

Troubleshooting MySQL with OpenTelemetry Metrics ^{(from The Oracle MySQL Blog)}

Upgrading MySQL HeatWave High Availability from MySQL 8.0.46 to MySQL 8.4 LTS ^{(from The Oracle MySQL Blog)}

Analyzing Aurora MySQL issues with Kiro IDE and Aurora MySQL MCP server ^{(from AWS Database Blog)}

One Database, Two Models: Building AI-Friendly Java Applications With MySQL JSON Duality Views ^{(from DZone)}

Make pg_stat_monitor stable again! ^{(from Percona Community Blog)}

Speaking at All Things Open 2026 in Raleigh ^{(from AskDba)}

MySQL - Extract numbers out of a string ^{(from MySQL :: under_the_hood)}