For this penultimate article before Christmas, let's announce the 30th anniversary of MySQL!

For the 22nd day of our Advent Calendar of Content, we bring you a summary of all the MySQL Blog posts that demonstrate using the OCI TypeScript SDK

For the 21st day of our Advent Calendar of Content, we bring you a summary of all the MySQL Shorts that are focussed on topics that would interest DBAs.

This blog post explains the cause of “ERROR 1412 (HY000): Table definition has changed, please retry transaction” with the specific Isolation level settings. Background As per the MySQL documentation, this error should occur for “operations that make a temporary copy of the original table and delete the original table when the temporary copy is built.” […]

Let's stay a bit longer with MySQL 3.2x to advance the MySQL Retrospective in anticipation of the 30th Anniversary.

Let’s stay a bit longer with MySQL 3.2x to advance the MySQL Retrospective in anticipation of the 30th Anniversary. The idea of this article was suggested to me by Daniël van Eeden. Did you know that in the early days, and therefore still in MySQL 3.20, MySQL used the ISAM storage format? IBM introduced the […]

This blog is not intended to offer anything extraordinary; instead, consider it an anecdote, a lesson, or simply a proper way of doing things without the need to run a test when in doubt. That said, I must emphasize that, as always, testing everything before deploying to production is essential. Let’s dive into the story: […]

The second season of the podcast Inside MySQL: Sakila Speaks has begun. In the first episode, Fred and Scott discuss how they got started with MySQL and some of their favorite features.

OpenTelemetry provides a standard for transferring observability data. MySQL has already added support for OpenTelemetry Traces and OpenTelemetry Metrics. We recently added support for OpenTelemetry Logging.

Let's do a move into the past for the MySQL Advent Calendar before the 30th Anniversary and talk about MySQL 3.20