In Part 1 of this blog series I shared how to create a Pure Storage FlashBlade S3 compliant Object Storage account, user and bucket. I also demonstrated how to download the MySQL airportdb database, and upload objects into the Object Store S3 bucket. In Part 2, I showed how we can use the MySQL Shell... Continue Reading →
Learn how you can use the MySQL Shell to load data from S3 compliant Object Storage – Part 2 (Load)
In Part 1 of this blog series I shared how to setup a Pure Storage FlashBlade S3 compliant Object Storage account, user and bucket. I also demonstrated how to download the MySQL airportdb database, and upload objects into the Object Store S3 bucket. In this blog post I will show how we can use the... Continue Reading →
How to utilize S3 Object Storage for common MySQL 8 database DBA activities – Part 1 (Setup)
In this blog post series I and going to share how a MySQL 8 DBA can utilise S3 Object Storage for common database admin activities. If you don't already have an up and running MySQL 8 database and want to follow this blog, you could check out my post How to Install MySQL 8 on... Continue Reading →
How to Install MySQL 8 on Oracle Linux 8
In this post I am going to share how to install the MySQL 8 Community Edition on Oracle Linux 8. Before you download the RPM, confirm which version of Linux you are using, by checking /etc/redhat-release or /etc/oracle-release, for example. # cat /etc/redhat-release; cat /etc/oracle-release Red Hat Enterprise Linux release 8.8 (Ootpa) Oracle Linux Server... Continue Reading →
Using the Oracle MySQL Kubernetes database Operator, Portworx and OKE
Today there are a number of different MySQL Kubernetes Operators available for use, many providing similar functionality with varying development effort and support offerings, for example Percona, PressLabs, GrdsCloud, Moco to name a few. In this post I am going to be using the official MySQL Kubernetes Operator developed by the Oracle MySQL team to... Continue Reading →