Over the last few years, I have become quite smitten with MySQL Shell. For those who may not be familiar with MySQL Shell, it is a new(ish) command line interface (CLI) for connecting to and managing MySQL instances. During a recent episode of Inside MySQL: Sakila Speaks, Fred and I talked to Miguel Araujo about many of the helpful (and lesser known) features of MySQL Shell. This post is the first in a series about these “hidden gem” features.

Recently, I have written extensively about using JavaScript to create stored functions in MySQL. I have talked about searching, filtering, and sorting JSON array data. I have discussed using top-level JavaScript objects such as Intl and Math. Today, I will talk about debugging stored functions written in JavaScript.

In some previous posts, I discussed how we can use JavaScript in MySQL HeatWave and MySQL Enterprise to search and filter JSON array data. Today, I am going to show how we can sort JSON array data using JavaScript in MySQL.

In my last three posts, I discussed searching JSON array data, filtering JSON array data, and using the global Intl object when creating MySQL stored functions. These examples were relatively simple functions and, essentially, one-liners. In this post, I will create another stored function with more complex business logic.

As I mentioned in some previous posts, MySQ: HeatWave and MySQL Enterprise support writing stored functions using JavaScript. When I started playing around with this feature, I wanted to know how much support there was for global JavaScript objects. There is a lot of support for these, and in this post, we will talk about using the global Intl object.

A few months ago, it was announced that MySQL now supports writing stored functions and stored procedures using JavaScript. This post will discuss a case in which JavaScript searches values in an array. Please note that this functionality is only available in MySQL Enterprise Edition or MySQL HeatWave.

In my last post, I discussed using JavaScript to write MySQL stored functions that could search the values in a JSON array to determine if any of the elements matched a given value. In this demonstration, I will show how you can use JavaScript to filter the elements of an array and only return elements that match a value.

In a post from last year, I talked about how we can view the SQL queries that are run whenever we use the MySQL Document Store API to return JSON documents. If you did not know, when using the Document Store API, the commands are translated into SQL and executed against the database. Sometimes, it is helpful to view the queries to understand how the data is retrieved or manipulated. Now that Database Management in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is available for MySQL HeatWave instances, I discovered a slightly easier method for viewing these queries.

This is the sixth (and final) post in a series dedicated to showing how to use the OCI CLI to manage MySQL HeatWave resources. This post will discuss how to create a MySQL HeatWave inbound replication channel.

This is the fifth post in a series dedicated to showing how to use the OCI CLI to manage MySQL HeatWave resources. This post will discuss how to create a configuration for MySQL HeatWave instances and how to create a new instance using this configuration.