# Upgrading GitHub.com to MySQL 8.0 - The GitHub Blog

<https://github.blog/2023-12-07-upgrading-github-com-to-mysql-8-0/>

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## What Jamie wrote

MySQL scaled to tremendous levels — 1,200 hosts, 300 TB of data. How do you upgrade them all through a major version change? Carefully. 😂

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