DBeaver recently introduced interactive chat capabilities into the free, open-source Community Edition. What does that mean?  It means some of your database tasks can be accomplished...

I've been going to conferences and meetups of all kinds since 2004. And today — much like in the era when a Nokia brick was giving people their first, still-primitive taste of mobility — these...

The Jupyter Executive Council and Jupyter Foundation are pleased to announce a new Call for Proposals (CFP) for funding the Jupyter community to improve Jupyter. Visit the Jupyter Foundation...

For over 30 years, MySQL has grown through the contributions, feedback, and collaboration of a global community of developers, database administrators, customers, partners, educators, and open...

PostgreSQL today looks very different from the PostgreSQL many of us started working with over 25 years ago. PostgreSQL was once primarily deployed on dedicated servers and virtual machines,...

There are moments in life when things, simply, converge. You work and study, study and work, and then, simply, it happens. It starts one day when somebody tells you “there is this new thing called...

Lyft details a new pickup experience to improve reliability in gated communities, where 25–30% of rides face routing and access challenges. The system uses mapping signals, boundary detection, and...

On May 26, The MySQL Community Team at Oracle welcomed MySQL contributors, customers, partners, and community members to the MySQL Contributor Summit at the Oracle Redwood Shores campus, with...

MySQL 9.7 LTS is here, establishing the new MySQL 9.7.x Long-Term Support release line. For organizations running MySQL today, this is the right time to evaluate upgrade plans and move toward a...

Modern applications often pass JSON back and forth with the database server. With MySQL, we have had great JSON support, but working with relational data as JSON usually meant generating documents...

The Jupyter Foundation is excited to announce that we have contracted with Jason Grout to be a part-time Jupyter Foundation Community Manager. The primary purpose of this role is to strengthen the...

Following the strong engagement across the first three editions of our Public MySQL Community Discussion series, we’re pleased to invite you to Edition #4. We will focus on the upcoming...

Alkin Tezuysal Director of Services at Altinity Inc. MySQL 9.7 came out on April 21 and I’ve been going through the release notes so you don’t have to. The short version: Oracle has made several...

I have written a new post on the MySQL blog about the hypergraph optimizer, which is now available in MySQL 9.7 Community Edition. The post gives a high-level technical overview of what is...