In this episode, Lois Houston and Nikita Abraham discuss the basics of MySQL installation with MySQL expert Perside Foster. Perside covers every key step, from preparing your environment and selecting the right software, to installing MySQL, setting up secure initial user accounts, configuring the system, and managing updates efficiently. MySQL 8.4 Essentials: https://mylearn.oracle.com/ou/course/mysql-84-essentials/141332/226362 Oracle University Learning Community: https://education.oracle.com/ou-community LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/oracle-university/ X: https://x.com/Oracle_Edu Special thanks to Arijit Ghosh, David Wright, Kris-Ann Nansen, Radhika Banka, and the OU Studio Team for helping us create this episode. -------------------------------------------------------- Episode Transcript: 00:00 Welcome to the Oracle University Podcast, the first stop on your cloud journey. During this series of informative podcasts, we’ll bring you foundational training on the most popular Oracle technologies. Let’s get started! 00:26 Nikita: Welcome back to another episode of the Oracle University Podcast. I’m Nikita Abraham, Team Lead of Editorial Services with Oracle University, and I’m joined by Lois Houston, Director of Innovation Programs. Lois: Hi everyone! In our last episode, we spoke about Oracle MySQL ecosystem and its various components. We also discussed licensing, security, and some key tools. What's on the agenda for today, Niki? 00:52 Nikita: Well Lois, today, we’re going beyond tools and features to talk about installing MySQL. Whether you're setting up MySQL for the first time or looking to understand its internal structure a little better, this episode will be a valuable guide. Lois: And we’re lucky to have Perside Foster back with us. Perside is a MySQL Principal Solution Engineer at Oracle. Hi Perside! Say I wanted to get started and install MySQL. What factors should I keep in mind before I do that? 01:23 Perside: The first thing to consider is the environment for the database server. MySQL is supported on many different Linux distributions. You can also run it on Windows or Apple macOS. You can run MySQL on a variety of host platforms. You can use dedicated servers in a server room or virtual machines in a data center. Developers might prefer to deploy on Docker or Kubernetes containers. And don't forget, you can deploy HeatWave, the MySQL cloud version, in many different clouds. MySQL has great multithreading capability. It also has support for Non-Uniform Memory Access or NUMA. This is particularly important if you run large systems with hundreds of concurrent connections. MySQL storage engine, InnoDB, makes effective use of your available memory. It stores your active data in a buffer pool. This greatly improves access time compared to reading straight from disk. Of course, SSDs and other solid state media are much faster than hard disks. But don't forget, MySQL can make full use of that performance benefit too. Redundancy is very important for the MySQL server. Hardware with redundant power supply, storage media, and network connections can make all the difference to your uptime. Without redundancy, a single point of failure will bring down the server if it fails. 03:26 Nikita: Got it. Perside, from where can I download the different editions of MySQL? Perside: Our most popular software is the MySQL Community Edition. It is available at no cost for mysql.com for many platforms. This version is why MySQL is the most popular database for web application. And it is also open source. MySQL Enterprise Edition is the commercial edition. It is fully supported by Oracle. You can get it from support.oracle.com as an Oracle customer. If you want to try out the enterprise features but are not yet a customer, you can get the latest version of MySQL as a trial edition from edelivery.oracle.com. Because MySQL is open source, you can get the source code from either mysql.com or GitHub. Most people don't need the source. But any developer who wants to modify the code or even contribute back to the project are welcome to do so. 04:43 Lois: Perside, can you walk us through MySQL’s release model? Perside: This is divided into LTS and Innovation releases, each with a different target audience. LTS stands for long-term support. MySQL 8.4 is an LTS release and will be supported for several years. LTS releases are feature-stable. When you install an LTS release, you can apply future bug fixes and security patches without changing any behavior in the product. The bug fixes and security patches are designed to be backward compatible. This means you can upgrade easily from previous releases. LTS releases come every two years. This allows you to maintain a stable system without having to change your underlying application too frequently. You will not be forced to upgrade after two years. You can continue to enjoy support for an LTS release for up to eight years...
