MySQL Database Service (MDS) is a fully-managed Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) service that allows you to harness the ease and power of MySQL in the cloud. Since MDS is deployed to OCI, we can take advantage of OCI Alarms to send notifications when a MySQL instance enters a state that is, shall we say, less than favorable. In this post, we will show how to set up an MDS instance and configure an alarm to send an email when the server becomes unavailable.

MySQL HeatWave Database is a fully managed service on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) that is developed, managed, and supported by the MySQL team at Oracle. When you provision a new MySQL instance under OCI, you can only connect to the database from inside the OCI network. While this is a great security feature for production services hosted in OCI, it is more challenging to share a development database among different developers. In this post, we will show how you can create a Network Load Balancer to allow access to a MySQL HeatWave Database instance over the internet.

MySQL Document Store is a ‘NoSQL’ solution built on top of MySQL. Last month, I gave a talk at THAT Conference about using MySQL Document Store with Node.js. During that talk, one of the attendees asked if it was possible to see the underlying queries executed when we use the CRUD API in Document Store.

Database indexes are used to help query performance. Database indexes typically contain information about data in a specific column of the database table. With the introduction of functional indexes in MySQL 8.0.13, we can now create indexes based on the result of an expression or function.

Storing JSON in a relational database is something developers have done for quite some time. There are a variety of reasons why you would want to store JSON in a database table - user preferences and configuration data are two good examples. The JSON Data Type was introduced to MySQL in version 5.7.8. This data type allows us to store valid JSON in a database column and run queries based on the values in the JSON.

MySQL Shell is a powerful way to connect to and manage MySQL instances. Connections can even be made to servers that are behind an SSH connection. In this post, we will discuss how to extend and customize MySQL Shell so that it is easier to initiate those connections.

MySQL Document Store is a JSON document storage solution built on top of MySQL. One feature of MySQL Document Store that can help speed up searches is the ability to create indexes of data contained within our JSON documents. In this post, we will demonstrate creating an index and look at the changes made to our collection after we create the index.

MySQL Document Store is a “NoSQL” database built on top of MySQL.

As I mentioned in my last post, I am a big fan of MySQL Shell. Until recently, I have only used MySQL Shell to connect to a local instance of MySQL running on my development machine.

Yesterday, my colleague, Fred (AKA LeFred), shared a blog post that discusses setting up aliases that allow us to run MySQL Shell when we enter mysql at a command prompt.