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MySQL has built-in functionality for collecting statistics on and profiling your MySQL queries. Learn how to leverage these features to identify problems. →
By Brian Morrison II |
Understand the different versions of UUIDs and why using them as a primary key in MySQL can hurt database performance. →
By Sam Lambert |
PlanetScale is committed to providing a reliable and sustainable platform for our customers, not just in the short-term, but forever. For this reason, we are prioritizing profitability. →
By Taylor Barnett, Rafer Hazen |
Automatically receive recommendations to improve database performance, reduce memory and storage, and improve your schema based on production database traffic. →
By Taylor Barnett, Rick Branson |
You can now enable foreign key constraints to enforce referential integrity in your PlanetScale database. →
By Brian Morrison II |
Amazon Aurora is pitched as a straightforward and scalable database service on AWS, but there are associated costs that you might not be aware of. →
By Brian Morrison II |
Learn about a few common mistakes when designing your MySQL database schema. →
By Taylor Barnett |
You can now build integrations that seamlessly authenticate with PlanetScale and allow management access to your users’ organizations and databases from your application. →
By Nick Van Wiggeren |
Today, in our effort to continue being the best database for serverless and applications that require massive scale, we are deprecating the Scaler plan. →
By Brian Morrison II |
Learn the key differences between Amazon Aurora blue/green deployments and PlanetScale branching. →
By Rick Branson |
Learn about the three main aspects of database scaling: storage, compute, and network. →
By Brian Morrison II |
Learn different considerations and best practices for quickly and efficiently recovering your database when downtime hits. →
By Savannah Longoria |
In this blog post, we explore how complex data and geographic features can be represented in MySQL. →
By Brian Morrison II |
Learn about how Amazon Aurora replication works, and how it compares to the traditional MySQL replication strategy used by PlanetScale. →
By Brian Morrison II |
Learn about the various isolation levels used by MySQL to allow concurrency in your database. →
By Shlomi Noach |
We are releasing schemadiff, an open source command line tool to generate diffs between two MySQL databases. →
By Matt Robenolt |
How close am I to PlanetScale? Use our new CLI command, pscale ping, to find out. →
By Shlomi Noach, Manan Gupta |
Today, PlanetScale launched support for foreign key constraints. This article covers some of the behind-the-scenes technical challenges we had to overcome to support them. →
By Savannah Longoria |
Learn what HTAP is, how HTAP compares to OLAP and OLTP, and some pros and cons of HTAP. →
By Rafer Hazen |
This new update to PlanetScale Insights introduces smart query monitoring to detect slower than expected queries in your database. →
By Mike Coutermarsh |
Learn what went into building PlanetScale webhooks from a security perspective. This article covers SSRF, webhook validation, DDoS, and more. →
By Brian Morrison II |
There is more to sharding than simply increasing data throughput. In this article, we explore three different benefits of sharding your database. →