Planet MySQL HA Blog

The Planet MySQL HA Blog aggregates content from sources that cover topics related to high availability (HA) for MySQL databases.

Querying the Unstructured: Natural Language to SQL for JSON Data

| MySQL expert Diary

Bridging natural language processing with semi-structured data brings both opportunity and complexity.

MySQL HeatWave GenAI’s NL2SQL feature shows how natural language can simplify data interaction — even for JSON documents. Yet, because JSON embeds both data and metadata within a single column, LLMs may struggle without explicit schema cues.

By creating well-structured views that reveal JSON’s internal organization, you can transform unstructured data into a relational format the model understands — improving both query accuracy and overall usability.

This approach…

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MySQL Basics: Turning the Page—Using LIMIT and OFFSET for Pagination

Discover how to tame big tables using LIMIT and OFFSET in MySQL! This post makes pagination easy for newcomers, using friendly library metaphors, step-by-step SQL examples, and practical tips to help you view your data one page at a time.

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Interact with MySQL in natural language

We are excited to announce the release of Natural Language to SQL (NL2SQL) capability for MySQL (with the AI option) and MySQL HeatWave cloud service. Natural language interface is essential for modern data platforms, allowing users to explore information more quickly.

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MySQL Basics: WHERE’s the Data? Filtering Results with WHERE Clauses

Ready to grow your querying skills? This post introduces curious newcomers to the WHERE clause in MySQL, showing how simple conditions, clever operators, and cheerful library metaphors can help you filter data like a pro. Find the exact records you need using approachable SQL examples—no dusty catalogs required!

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What’s New in MySQL HeatWave on AWS?

We’re introducing a powerful set of enhancements aimed at boosting service availability and manageability thereby simplifying migrations from AWS Aurora, RDS, or MySQL on EC2, and improving performance.

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Why MySQL on Kubernetes Fails Without the Right Operator

| Continuent

MySQL is still the workhorse behind modern applications. From SaaS platforms to e-commerce, it powers the transactional data that businesses rely on. As more organizations adopt Kubernetes for its promise of portability, automation, and infrastructure efficiency, it’s natural to want MySQL to live alongside the rest of the stack. Running databases as containers is appealing: one control plane, unified pipelines, and elastic scaling.

But while Kubernetes makes stateless services almost effortless, MySQL exposes the limits of that model. Persistence, replication, and…

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Tuning BLOB for performance in NDB [Part 2]

This blog post shows the performance evaluation of the BLOB_INLINE_SIZE column option for NDB tables in comparison without it, as well as the benefits of batching BLOB read and writes.

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Audit Log Filters Part II

| Percona

In my first post on the MySQL 8.4 Audit Log Filter component, I covered how to install the component and configure a basic filter that captures all events. The Audit Log Filter framework offers a highly granular and configurable auditing mechanism, enabling administrators to log specific events based on criteria such as user, host, or event type. This selective approach enhances observability, supports compliance initiatives, and minimizes unnecessary logging overhead.

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MySQL Basics: Seek and You Shall SELECT—Retrieving Data from Your Tables

Curious about what's inside your MySQL tables? This post introduces beginners to the SELECT statement, using friendly library metaphors, approachable SQL examples, and helpful tips—including how to alias column names. Get ready to start exploring your data with confidence!

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Let Your AI DBA Assistant Write Your MySQL Queries

| MySQL expert Diary

Having explored the innovative MySQL HeatWave technology that converts Natural Language into SQL (Ask Your Database Anything: Natural Language to SQL in MySQL HeatWave), our next article in this series, dives into a practical use case demonstrating how an AI DBA Assistant can significantly simplify your query generation workflow. In MySQL, there are 3 specialized […]

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