I have written previous blog posts about Oracle Cloud OCI and this series continues. My post titled with Iaas Getting Started was to get us acquainted with important security-focused items like Compartments and network Services like NAT and Internet-Gateways. Then I posted about building MySQL on Compute with Scripting using a mix of OCI Web console navigation… Read More »

I have written previous blog posts about Oracle Cloud OCI and this series continues. My post titled with Iaas Getting Started was to get us acquainted with important security-focused items like Compartments and network Services like NAT and Internet-Gateways. Then I posted about building MySQL on Compute with Scripting using a mix of OCI Web console navigation… Read More »

The Oracle Cloud has a lot to offer with it’s Security Focused 2nd Generation OCI environment.  My previous blog on OCI IaaS walks us through some of the great IaaS features such as compartments and VCN Subnets where you can run services across private ip addresses.  What I’d like to look at this time is… Read More »

This is a quick blog demonstrating a couple backup Restore uses cases within a MySQL InnoDB Cluster 8.0 setup.  The backup used was completed in a previous blog (part 2 in this series) with the  MySQL Enterprise Backup 8.0 utility.  I’ll then use that backup to build an additional member to add to the cluster. This blog… Read More »

Features and capabilities continue to arrive in MySQL 8.0, most recently noted in the GA release of MySQL 8.0.13.  The mysql-shell 8.0.12 release introduced a number of things, an important part was a cross-platform mysql-shell secure password handling facility.  The MySQL Login-paths are a part of that security focus.  Here we will look at where InnoDB Cluster 8.0,… Read More »

In Jesper’s blog on Persisted Variables …he introduced us to this new capability using the PERSIST and PERSIST_ONLY keywords.  With new MySQL features, such as PERSIST come new areas that we need to pay attention to when doing backup and restore activities.  Namely to manage the log file that the PERSIST capability uses, as it’s a… Read More »

In another post, I explained how to use the MySQL Query Re-write Plugin to manipulate data that didn’t exactly match SQL standards of MySQL. In this post, I am going to give you another example on how to use a trigger to parse non-conforming data so the data can be written to a MySQL database.

A customer came to me with a problem. They were using third-party software which produced multiple rows of comma-separated data (like a .csv file), but all of the data wasn’t on a single row. Instead, the data consisted of multiple rows of data, separated by commas and with line feeds after each row of data. Here …

There are lots of new features in MySQL 8.0 that was recently released including our Document Store capability.  There are a few core capabilities related to InnoDB Cluster in 8.0 that I’d like to share but some will arrive in some coming blogs.  Primarily here I’ll point out some nice details with InnoDB Cluster 8.0… Read More »

As of MySQL 5.6.24, MySQL Enterprise Edition includes MySQL Enterprise Firewall, an application-level firewall (it runs within the mysql database process) that enables database administrators to permit or deny SQL statement execution based on matching against whitelists of accepted statement patterns. This helps harden MySQL Server against attacks such as SQL injection or attempts to exploit applications by using them outside of their legitimate query workload characteristics.

Each MySQL account registered with the firewall has its own whitelist of statement patterns (a tokenized representation of a SQL statement), enabling protection to be tailored per account. For a given account, the firewall can operate in recording or protecting mode, for training in the accepted statement …

MySQL Package Management Options In this blog we will explore some interesting ways to install MySQL Community and Enterprise Edition binaries using your associated Linux package manager.  In this case we’ll look mostly at the Yum package manager on Oracle Linux.  The benefit of these package managers is that you can install software packages easily,… Read More »