Engineering Insights

Quick deploys using the Web Console

Before today, if you preferred doing everything in a visual interface or GUI, you may have found it difficult to run SQL commands with PlanetScale. The current setup for running SQL commands against your PlanetScale branches includes assumptions, such as command line knowledge and CLI expertise, that are not friendly to some users. At PlanetScale, we are constantly thinking about different ways to improve the developer experience with our product, and today, we continue that tradition by introdu

Node.js 16.9.1 (Current)

Helen Toner joins OpenAI’s board of directors

Today, we’re excited to announce the appointment of Helen Toner to our board of directors.

TruthfulQA: Measuring how models mimic human falsehoods

Node.js 16.9.0 (Current)

Microsoft SQL Server Support in Prisma is Generally Available

Microsft SQL Server and Azure SQL support in Prisma is now Generally Available

August 31 2021 Security Releases

Optimizing SQL with Query Statistics

When you experience database issues, capturing queries on a running system is a hard problem. Existing solutions, such as tcpdump, SHOW PROCESSLIST; or third-party monitoring agents, can cause additional system load or gather only a small subset of queries. Starting today, all PlanetScale database branches now track statistics about each SQL query that has executed against it without any overhead. By using Vitess, which powers PlanetScale databases, to track how many times a query runs, how many