https://github.com/oursqlcommunity-org/one_time_for_planet/ 2026-05-28T14:00:00+00:00 Today marks the launch of The OurSQL Foundation, an open organisation that will support the community of users, developers, and companies that are invested in the success of MySQL. The new Foundation will provide a venue for those involved in the MySQL community using, building and deploying applications that use MySQL or the broad range of compatible software to share with their peers, to access knowledge, and to provide feedback on future development in a transparent and consistent way. This community organization will support the growth and use of MySQL as an open source database and collaborate with all players in the market, including Oracle, to see MySQL succeed with the next generation of developers and applications. https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2026/05/27/3302305/0/en/oursql-foundation-launches-to-support-mysql-users-developers-and-companies.html 2026-05-28T14:00:00+00:00 OurSQL https://www.globenewswire.com/en/search/organization/OurSQL When a customer has 100+ RDS MySQL 8.0 instances that need to upgrade to 8.4, they face several challenges. The RDS MySQL Upgrade Assistant is an open-source tool that provides a 19-check SQL precheck engine with a remediation playbook, automated parameter and option group migration, Blue/Green and in-place upgrade orchestration with pre-switchover guardrail checks, and an application validation framework — all accessible via shell scripts or natural language through Kiro IDE/CLI. https://repost.aws/articles/AReoa8WCDiQIqcwaWbPT6auQ/how-to-automate-large-scale-rds-mysql-8-0-to-rds-mysql-8-4-upgrades-with-kiro-and-mcp 2026-05-22T18:00:00+00:00 Taylor Chu https://repost.aws/community/users/USrsuna3MOSKaN-c3egfooMQ For more than two decades, MySQL has been one of the pillars of modern web infrastructure. According to the Stack Overflow Developer Survey, it continues to rank among the most widely used databases worldwide. It powered early startups, supported the rise of PHP applications, and became a default choice for teams that needed a reliable relational database without enterprise complexity. Today, that comfortable position is under pressure. https://www.softwareplaza.com/it-magazine/mysql-at-a-crossroads:-oracle-control,-community-frustration,-and-mariadb%E2%80%99s-rise 2026-03-31T00:00:00+00:00 IT Magazine https://www.softwareplaza.com/it-magazine If you're running MySQL on a symlink and using versions 8.0.34 through 9.6.0, it's important to be aware of a critical bug that can cause MySQL to crash after executing a TRUNCATE command. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/yakir-gibraltar-5110bb111_bug120156-fix-truncate-table-crash-when-activity-7443945479857676289-ETRw/ 2026-03-29T00:00:00+00:00 Yakir Gibraltar https://www.linkedin.com/in/yakir-gibraltar-5110bb111/ Last year MySQL marked its 30th birthday, but with end of life for the current version (8.0) coming up next month and moves towards a community edition what does the future hold for the platform? We spoke to Peter Zaitsev, founder of database support specialist Percona, to discuss what MySQL users should be doing now and whether there’s still life in the old database yet. https://betanews.com/article/mysql-at-30-does-it-still-have-a-future-qa/ 2026-03-25T00:00:00+00:00 Ian Barker https://betanews.com/author/ianbarker/ MariaDB has long been celebrated for its pluggable storage engine architecture — the same design that lets you run InnoDB, Aria, ColumnStore, and other engines within a single server. Now there's a new player joining the lineup: the DuckDB Storage Engine, bringing the full power of DuckDB's columnar analytical engine right inside MariaDB. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/duckdb-storage-engine-mariadb-full-speed-analytics-inside-drrtuy-ijowc/ 2026-03-20T00:00:00+00:00 drrtuy drrtuy https://www.linkedin.com/in/drrtuy/ Nobody gets fired for choosing Postgres. It is the safest, most defensible technical decision you can make. Until it isn't. Especially when you are building a highly concurrent, event-driven logger. https://www.binarybox.org/p/thought-why-postgres-is-a-dangerous 2026-03-10T00:00:00+00:00 Ashok Vishwakarma https://substack.com/@avishwakarma For much of Postgres's history, it has lived in the shadow of other relational systems, and for a time even in the shadow of NoSQL systems. Those shadows have faded, but it is helpful to reflect on this outcome. https://momjian.us/main/blogs/pgblog/2026.html#March_11_2026 2026-03-11T16:00:00+00:00 Bruce Momjian https://momjian.us/ Back at the turn of the century, open source was experiencing widespread adoption along with the growth of the Internet. The acronym LAMP was used a lot, meaning Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP. https://www.adventuresinoss.com/mysql-renaissance/7 2026-03-11T15:15:00+00:00 Tarus Balog https://www.linkedin.com/in/tarusbalog/ Everything I learned migrating two massive codebases from MySQL 8 RDS to Postgres RDS, so you don’t have to figure it out alone. https://medium.com/@dusan.stanojevic.cs/the-mysql-to-postgres-migration-that-saved-480k-year-a-step-by-step-guide-4b0fa9f5bdb7 2026-02-25T00:00:00+00:00 Dusan Stanojevic https://medium.com/@dusan.stanojevic.cs/ Today, I will be talking about some of the common and high impact SQL anti-patterns I have seen from experience that can make queries and pipelines difficult to maintain, or have slower than expected performance. https://datamethods.substack.com/p/sql-anti-patterns-you-should-avoid 2025-10-18T00:00:00+00:00 Jordan Goodman https://substack.com/@jordangoodman Today, we are excited to announce that Peter Farkas will serve as Percona’s new Chief Executive Officer, where he will build on the company’s long-standing track record of success with an eye toward continuous innovation and growth. https://www.percona.com/blog/celebrating-a-new-chapter-percona-welcomes-peter-farkas-as-its-new-chief-executive-officer/ 2025-10-07T16:00:00+00:00 Cindy Neely https://www.percona.com/blog/author/cindy-neely/ When chasing changes in performance, it’s not enough to know which commit introduced the change — we need to understand how it has changed workloads. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/performance-framework-autobench3s-profiler-runner-mysql-miller-pm9gc/ 2025-10-05T11:00:00+00:00 Jonathan Miller https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathanbmiller/ The recent layoffs at Oracle’s MySQL team are not just another corporate restructuring. They are a signal — one that raises important questions for enterprises and the broader open-source community. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/oracles-mysql-layoffs-strategy-timing-what-means-patrik-backman-a5g3f/ 2025-09-19T10:00:00+00:00 Patrik Backman https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrikbackman/ DuckDB is renowned for its high query performance. However, due to DuckDB's relatively short development history, there aren't many articles that deeply analyze its various modules. This series of articles will dissect DuckDB from the source code level. This article, as the first in the DuckDB source code analysis series, will begin by introducing the file format, focusing on the storage of metadata, while subsequent articles will examine table data storage. All analysis in this article is based on DuckDB version 1.3.1 source code, and the TL;DR is found at the end of the article. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/duckdb-internals1-file-format-overview-zongzhi-chen-xudxc// 2025-09-01T10:00:00+00:00 zongzhi chen https://www.linkedin.com/in/zongzhi-chen-35a77a40/ DuckDB is an open-source database designed for online analytical processing (OLAP) and data analytics workloads. Due to its lightweight, high-performance, zero-configuration, and easy-to-integrate characteristics, it is rapidly becoming a popular choice in data science, BI tools, and embedded analytics scenarios. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/mysqls-new-storage-execution-engine-duckdb-zongzhi-chen-4woqc/ 2025-08-10T10:00:00+00:00 zongzhi chen https://www.linkedin.com/in/zongzhi-chen-35a77a40/