Blog

By JD Lien | March 24, 2023

Learn what you should look out for when upgrading an existing database from MySQL 5.7 to 8 and how to change your database to be compatible with the new version. →

By Mike Coutermarsh | March 20, 2023

Learn about the Ruby on Rails workflow that protects your database and application from accidental downtime and data loss. →

By Savannah Longoria | March 14, 2023

What does the MySQL 5.7 EOL means for your database? Learn considerations to upgrade 8.0 and how PlanetScale can help you upgrade with no downtime or data loss. →

By Anthony Herbert | March 7, 2023

Learn how to use Python SQLAlchemy with MySQL by working through an example of creating tables, inserting data, and querying data with both raw SQL and SQLAlchemy ORM. →

By Jason Long | March 1, 2023

Learn about some of the latest enhancements we made to the Branching page in the PlanetScale dashboard. →

By Vitess Engineering Team | February 28, 2023

Vitess 16 is now generally available with updates to VDiff v2 VTOrc MySQL compatibility and more. →

By JD Lien | February 17, 2023

Learn about some of the possible downsides of using database indexes and how to remove unused database indexes in MySQL. →

By Matt Robenolt | February 16, 2023

Join PlanetScale’s Lead Infrastructure Engineer for Edge connectivity for an explainer on our findings regarding HTTP/3 and the MySQL protocol. →

By Adnan Kukic | February 9, 2023

Learn how to migrate from Postgres to MySQL Postgres vs MySQL incompatibilities and more. →

By Frances Thai, Taylor Barnett | January 31, 2023

Manage your databases programmatically with the PlanetScale API. →

By Mary Gathoni | January 27, 2023

An overview of some common MySQL error codes you may run into, what they mean, and how to solve them. →

By Jonah Berquist | January 26, 2023

Learn about sharding, connection pooling, and more from PlanetScale Technical Solutions Architect Jonah Berquist. →

By JD Lien | January 18, 2023

Learn what the N+1 queries problem is by working through an example N+1 query updating it to a JOIN statement and going over how to identify them in the future. →

By Mike Stojan | January 11, 2023

A quick glimpse on Support at PlanetScale and the issues we see the most often. →

By Mike Coutermarsh | January 10, 2023

Learn how to solve your Rails applications N+1’s caused by `exists?` queries. →

By Matt Robenolt | January 4, 2023

In this article we explore how our HTTP/3 API compares to the latency of a traditional MySQL client. →

By Andres Taylor | December 15, 2022

Learn how query planning works and why query planners are important. →

By Savannah Longoria | December 14, 2022

Learn how PlanetScale simplifies the process of running Temporal in production by looking at how our customer runs heavy production workloads. →

By Jason Charnes | December 12, 2022

A comprehensive overview of Rails’ many safety features that can help you prevent painful mistakes. →

By Mike Coutermarsh | December 8, 2022

Learn how to configure your database in a multi-region Rails application to decrease latency across the globe. →

By Brian Morrison II | December 7, 2022

Learn how to encrypt your connection strings so that not even AWS can access them. →

By Brian Morrison II | November 30, 2022

PlanetScale is more than just a drop-in replacement for MySQL. Learn about everything PlanetScale can do for you. →

By Sam Kottler | November 18, 2022

PlanetScale can now enter into Business Associate Agreements (BAA) with customers on an Enterprise plan. →

By Liz van Dijk | November 1, 2022

Learn how to use PlanetScale to safely include your database in your serverless functions without hitting connection limits in MySQL. →

By Brian Morrison II | October 31, 2022

Gain a deeper understanding of the MySQL integer types by exploring the different options (INT BIGINT MEDIUMINT etc) and how they are stored. →