As I mentioned here, I have been on a journey to get in shape. I have been working hard at it for several months now, and I am happy to report that I have officially lost 50 pounds (22.7 kg)! In this post, I want to share what has worked for me so far. I am not a doctor or a nutritionist, but I have found that these habits have helped me transform my health. If you are on a similar journey, I hope my experience can offer some inspiration!

Several months ago, I made the decision to get in shape. I needed to lose weight, and I wanted to improve my overall health. I’ll talk about my journey in a future post, but I wanted to share how I used AI in a way that you might not expect.

Last week, we released a Episode #89 of MySQL Shorts that focussed on some machine learning features available in HeatWave. In today’s post, I will discuss some things I learned about good vs. bad data when I was training the AI models for this episode.

Earlier this week, we released a Episode #89 of MySQL Shorts that focussed on some machine learning features available in HeatWave. I am excited to share that features demoed in that video are also available in the Always Free tier of HeatWave!

For quite some time, AI has been all the rage. Last year, we saw the introduction of the Model Context Protocol (MCP). MCP servers allow AI clients like ChatGPT and Claude to interact with external systems, such as databases, APIs, and other services. This post will show you how to create a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that allows an AI client to interact with a MySQL database.

In previous posts, I discussed how to use MySQL Shell to dump and load data using a multithreaded process. When using util.dumpInstance(), we create a dump of all the data and schema changes, even those that have already been dumped previously. But what if we only want to dump the data and schema changes that have occurred since the last dump? In this post, we will demonstrate how to use MySQL Shell and util.dumpBinlogs() to achieve this.

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) has a very robust always-free tier. Oracle recently announced that HeatWave MySQL will be part of that offering. This post will show how to set up a free Drupal site using Always Free resources in Oracle Cloud.

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) has a very robust always-free tier. Oracle recently announced that HeatWave MySQL will be part of that offering. This post will show how you can set up a free WordPress site using Always Free resources in Oracle Cloud.

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) has a very robust always-free tier. Oracle recently announced that HeatWave MySQL will now be part of that offering. As part of the always-free tier, we can set up one instance and a single-node HeatWave Cluster. In this post, we will show how to spin up that instance and connect to it using a Compute instance.

MySQL Shell offers a wide variety of tools to manage our MySQL instances. With all those tools, though, we may want functionality that would be helpful and pertain to just your situation. Thankfully, the MySQL Shell team made it possible to extend MySQL Shell and add functionality. In this post, we will explore the use of plugins.