We recently asked the MariaDB community a simple question: Where do you run MariaDB most in production? The responses give a useful snapshot of how MariaDB is deployed today across our community: The big takeaway: MariaDB remains strongly infrastructure-aware The…
When dealing with queries in MariaDB, there are several approaches, such as the general query log, the slow query log, and the performance_schema. The general query log is not recommended as it doesn’t contain much valuable information and can use…
You may have noticed that MySQL Workbench has not been actively developed for a long time… You can see the number of open bugs. And the number of commits illustrates this too: In fact, Workbench has been put out of…
This post was originally published on MariaDB.org. We recently asked the community: “Which MySQL-compatibility feature would you most like to see in the next MariaDB release?” A big thank you to everyone who voted. We received 506 votes, and the…
Over the last few days, I’ve seen more than a few comments and questions about what the MariaDB Foundation is supposed to do — and what it should do when something in the wider MariaDB ecosystem changes. I am referring…
I recently tested MariaDB’s plugin architecture to add functions for UUIDs. My friend Daniël took a look at the GitHub repo and left me some insightful comments, which I addressed in issue #1. If you know me, you may know…
At the end of my first day at MariaDB, I wanted to investigate a bit on how easy it is to extend MariaDB Server with extensions. As for MySQL, MariaDB can be extended with plugins. MariaDB has no component infrastructure,…
Last Friday was my last day at Oracle. Today is my first day at MariaDB.org! Of course, this move is a big surprise for many people, but not for me, and it might not be for those following the MySQL…
In the previous article, I shared a solution for people who want to try the latest and greatest MySQL version. We just released MySQL Innovation 9.6, and for those willing to test it with their old application and require the…
Who has never encountered a customer who, for all sorts of reasons (valid or not), was unable to update an application and therefore could no longer connect to the latest versions of MySQL? Or worse still, data that is shared…
I am pleased to unveil the agenda for our two days dedicated to MySQL and its community just before FOSDEM. The preFOSDEM MySQL Belgian Days will take place on January 29 and 30th in Brussels. We received many excellent proposals…
We have reached the end of our series on deploying to OCI using the Hackathon Starter Kit. For this last article, we will see how to deploy an application using Helidon (Java), the MySQL REST Service, and OCI GenAI with…