Setup Disaster Recovery for OCI MySQL Database Service
When you create a MySQL Database Service instance in OCI, you have the choice between 3 types: If you have minutes as RTO (Recovery Time Objective) in case of a failure, you must choose a High Availability instance that will deploy a Group Replication Cluster over 3 Availability Domains or 3...

How to import data from Microsoft SQL Server to MySQL Database Service
After having see how we can import data from PostgreSQL and Amazon Redshift, this time we will see how we can export data from Microsoft SQL Server and import it into MySQL Database Service in OCI. This time we will use something extra (for fun but also because it’s practical): OCI Object...

How to import data from Amazon Redshift to MySQL Database Service
We saw in this previous post how to import data from PostgreSQL to MySQL Database Service. Using almost the same technique, we will now import data from Amazon Redshift and import it to a MDS instance. With Redshit we have two options to export the data to CSV files that can be imported to...

How to import data from PostgreSQL to MySQL Database Service
MySQL Database Service (aka MDS) is very popular and many users wants to benefit from the managed MySQL service and from MySQL HeatWave. We see many users migrating their data from MySQL on-premise or from another cloud vendor to MDS… we also see people migrating from other data-stores like...

MySQL Autopilot - Machine Learning Automation for MySQL HeatWave
Introduction MySQL is the world most popular open source database because of its reliability, high-performance, and ease of use. MySQL has been designed and optimized for transaction processing and enterprises around the world rely on it. With the introduction of HeatWave in MySQL Database...

MySQL Database Service: administrator user
On MySQL Database Service (aka MDS) on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (aka OCI), when you create a new instance, you also need to set the credentials for the administrator: Let’s focus on that account… Please don’t forget the password, it cannot be recovered !! First of all...

MySQL 8.0: all you need to know about SDI
We recently saw that .frm files have been somewhat of replaced for MyISAM tables in MySQL 8.0 (see this post). However, what are those files ? Can they be used for something else than MyISAM tables ? … Let’s try to answer those questions and get more familiar with the .sdi...

Oracle Live: New MySQL Heatwave Innovations - AUG 10 - 9AM PST
Please join our Oracle Live event, on August 10th, 9AM PST, 12 noon ET / 1 PM BRT / 6 PM CEST where Edward Screven, Oracle’s chief corporate architect, will share our latest MySQL innovations, along with the latest benchmarks, that show the speed and cost savings gained with MySQL...