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MySQL Database Service: Snapshot your data - backups
On Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, aka OCI, MySQL Database Service, aka MDS uses the snapshot technology to backup your data. I will explain how it works in the multiple part blog series. In part 1, we will deal with taking snapshots as backup. In part 2, we will see how to restore data and for which...

Using OCI Cloud Shell & Bastion with MySQL Database Service
Recently, Oracle added a Bastion Service to OCI. And you may also have noticed that the OCI Dashboard offers you the possibility to use a browser based terminal: Cloud Shell. Today, we will see how we can use these two components to connect from the browser to a MDS DB System. We need the MySQL...

MySQL Shell Dump & Load and Compression
MySQL Shell is the popular tool to work with MySQL and it integrates perfectly everything for MySQL Database Service (MDS) in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). For any logical dump and load of data and especially to dump data to MDS, MySQL Shell Utility is the recommended solution. MySQL...

Scale-up MySQL NDB Cluster 8.0.26 to +1.5M QPS the easy way with AMD EPYC 7742
On July 20th, 2021, we’ve celebrated the release of MySQL NDB Cluster 8.0.26. MySQL NDB Cluster (or NDB for short) is part of the MySQL family of open-source products providing an in-memory, distributed, shared-nothing, high-availability storage engine usable on its own or with MySQL servers...

MySQL: Character Sets, Unicode, and UCA compliant collations
With MySQL 8.0, the version of MySQL Database Service aka MDS, the default character set has changed from latin1 to ut8mb4. The default collation is utf8mb4_0900_ai_ci but what does that mean ? and why are the utf8mb4_0900_* the recommended ones ? Collations like utf8mb4_unicode_520_ci and...

Announcing July 2021 Releases featuring MySQL 8.0.26
MySQL Server 8.0.26 and 5.7.35, new versions of the popular Open Source Database Management System, have been released in conjunction with the 8.0.26 Connector and Component products.  We are also pleased to announce the release of MySQL Cluster 8.0.26, the latest GA, along with 7.6.19,...

Digital14 Relies on MySQL Enterprise Edition for Enhanced Security
Digital14 provides secure solutions, cybersecurity, and digital transformation services to public and commercial sector organizations in the United Arab Emirates. Digital14 supports intelligent and intrinsically secure digital transformations that create great experiences and unlock productivity...

Reminder when using MySQL Shell
If like me you are using MySQL Shell on many different systems and new installations, there are some commands I often use to benefit from my environment. What I really want to enable is the history of course, a nicer prompt and sometimes the default mode I want to use. This blog post is just a...

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