Every Major OLTP Has Time Travel. Except MySQL
If you’ve worked on Oracle, you know Flashback. Run a SELECT ... AS OF TIMESTAMP, get the row as it existed yesterday at 2pm. Find who…
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Ask Claude what happened to your MySQL
Most teams running MySQL in production don’t have a DBA. They have a developer who set up RDS two years ago, automated snapshots they’ve never tested…
Your MySQL Backups Won’t Pass a Compliance Audit Alone
Every compliance framework that touches data recovery says some version of the same thing: you need to be able to restore data, prove that you can,…
Your monitoring knows how your database is doing. It has no idea what happened to your data.
You’ve got Grafana dashboards. PMM is collecting metrics. Datadog has agents on every host. CloudWatch alarms are set up. You know your CPU is at 34%,…
I spent 4 hours restoring a backup for one deleted row
Someone ran a DELETE without the right WHERE clause. One row gone. One customer record. And I spent the next four hours of my life getting…
Introducing Data Change Intelligence
Your database knows what happened. You just can’t ask it. Every MySQL database with binary logging enabled already records every data change internally. But that history…