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Gated Deployments: addressing the complexity of schema deployments at scale
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Gated Deployments: addressing the complexity of schema deployments at scale

We just introduced a new feature Gated Deployments that gives you more control over when your schema changes deploy.

Shlomi Noach
Introducing the PlanetScale serverless driver for JavaScript
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Introducing the PlanetScale serverless driver for JavaScript

You can now use PlanetScale in HTTP-only environments like Cloudflare Workers, Vercel Edge Functions, and Netlify Edge Functions.

Taylor Barnett, Matt Robenolt
How PlanetScale prevents MySQL downtime
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How PlanetScale prevents MySQL downtime

Learn how PlanetScale protects against downtime due to human error system immaturity and app issues.

Sam Lambert
Announcing Teams: An easier way to manage database administrator access
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Announcing Teams: An easier way to manage database administrator access

Learn how you can manage database access with Teams and Directory Sync

Iheanyi Ekechukwu
We now display PlanetScale system status directly in your dashboard
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We now display PlanetScale system status directly in your dashboard

Learn about how we built the new in-app system status using Vercel edge functions and StatusPage

Mike Coutermarsh
Deploy requests now alert on potential unwanted changes
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Deploy requests now alert on potential unwanted changes

We’ve updated our Deploy Request UI to alert when a schema change could produce unintended changes

Mike Coutermarsh
Introducing PlanetScale Insights: Advanced query monitoring
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Introducing PlanetScale Insights: Advanced query monitoring

Insights gives you a faster way to debug and monitor your PlanetScale database queries

Holly Guevara
Extract, load, and transform your data with PlanetScale Connect
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Extract, load, and transform your data with PlanetScale Connect

Use PlanetScale Connect to easily perform ELT (Extract, Load, Transform) actions on your data to fulfill your application needs.

James Q Quick
Introducing PlanetScale Portals: Read-only regions
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Introducing PlanetScale Portals: Read-only regions

Put your data where your users and applications are.

Taylor Barnett
Revert a migration without losing data
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Revert a migration without losing data

Learn how PlanetScale lets you revert changes to your database after a migration with no downtime and zero data loss.

Taylor Barnett
Bring your data to PlanetScale
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Bring your data to PlanetScale

PlanetScale now supports zero downtime data migrations from your existing MySQL Database

Phani Raju
Comparing AWS’s RDS and PlanetScale
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Comparing AWS’s RDS and PlanetScale

PlanetScale draws customers from RDS due to better scalability, superior developer workflow, and typically much lower cost

Jarod Reyes
Optimizing SQL with Query Statistics
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Optimizing SQL with Query Statistics

Check the performance of your SQL queries in real-time.

David Graham
Automatically copy migration data in PlanetScale branches
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Automatically copy migration data in PlanetScale branches

Use PlanetScale branching with the database schema migration tools of your choice

Taylor Barnett
Connect any MySQL client to PlanetScale using Connection Strings
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Connect any MySQL client to PlanetScale using Connection Strings

Connect PlanetScale to any MySQL client with Connection Strings for a true database experience.

Taylor Barnett
PlanetScale on Vitess
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PlanetScale on Vitess

At PlanetScale our vision is to build a database developers love that can scale indefinitely. To do this we knew we needed a database with a history of powering companies that deal with humongous amounts of data and traffic. That’s why we chose Vitess.

Deepthi Sigireddi
Non-Blocking Schema Changes
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Non-Blocking Schema Changes

Non-blocking schema changes let you push updates to your database without fear of blocking your databases locking individual tables or slowing down production during schema migrations.

Lucy Burns