MySQL Connector/Net 6.2.2, a new version of the all-managed .NET driver for MySQL has been released.This is our latest GA release and is suitable for use in all scenarios against servers ranging from version 4.1 to 5.4!

It is now available in source and binary form from [http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/net/6.2.html] and mirror sites
(note that not all mirror sites may be up to date at this point of time - if you can't find this version on some mirror, please try again later or choose another download site.)

The new features or changes in this release are:

• Connection pool cleanup timer.  We now utilize a timer that cleans idle connections that are no longer connected every 3 minutes
• We are now using stream and TCP-based timeouts to handle command timeouts.  This is more inline with what …

MySQL Connector/Net 6.2.2, a new version of the all-managed .NET driver for MySQL has been released.This is our latest GA release and is suitable for use in all scenarios against servers ranging from version 4.1 to 5.4!

It is now available in source and binary here and mirror sites (note that not all mirror sites may be up to date at this point of time – if you can’t find this version on some mirror, please try again later or choose another download site.)

The new features or changes in this release are:

• Connection pool cleanup timer.  We now utilize a timer that cleans idle connections that are no longer connected every 3 minutes
• We are now using stream and TCP-based timeouts to handle command timeouts.  This is more inline with what SqlClient does and should be more reliable than our old timer …

On the 24th of November I attended a talk given by one of of Sun's benchmark specialists , Dimitri Kravtchuk, at the Sun Solution Center of Paris.

The talk was simply called MySQL performance, and I was expecting, as many I suppose (the auditorium was packed !) tips and tricks on how to optimize a MySQL database. However I was quite positively surprised since the 3 hours session wasn't just a long list of tricks and “how to's” but was actually a journey through one and a half year of improvement of the InnoDB engine.

InnoDB could easily scale horizontally but not vertically. Horizontal scaling is the fact to put many small servers with each running a MySQL server (typically in a Master-Slave mode) where vertical scaling would be to put a unique MySQL server on a bigger server, expecting to get better performances. The latter is more and more needed given the multiplication of cores and threads within the CPUs even in entry level …

On the 24th of November I attended a talk given by one of of Sun's benchmark specialists , Dimitri Kravtchuk, at the Sun Solution Center of Paris.

The talk was simply called MySQL performance, and I was expecting, as many I suppose (the auditorium was packed !) tips and tricks on how to optimize a MySQL database. However I was quite positively surprised since the 3 hours session wasn't just a long list of tricks and “how to's” but was actually a journey through one and a half year of improvement of the InnoDB engine.

InnoDB could easily scale horizontally but not vertically. Horizontal scaling is the fact to put many small servers with each running a MySQL server (typically in a Master-Slave mode) where vertical scaling would be to put a unique MySQL server on a bigger server, expecting to get better performances. The latter is more and more needed given the multiplication of cores and threads within the CPUs even in entry level …

We have an exciting webinar coming up tomorrow (12/15) on migrating from SQL Server to MySQL.  LiveTime Software is a leader in ITIL service management and help desk products.  They have started offering a free migration service and this webinar will go over everything from toolsets used to character sets. 

You can read more about it and register for this webinar here.  So I know you have an hour you can spare and when it comes time to renew that SQL Server license you’ll be glad you did.

We have an exciting webinar coming up tomorrow (12/15) on migrating from SQL Server to MySQL.  LiveTime Software is a leader in ITIL service management and help desk products.  They have started offering a free migration service and this webinar will go over everything from toolsets used to character sets. 

You can read more about it and register for this webinar here.  So I know you have an hour you can spare and when it comes time to renew that SQL Server license you’ll be glad you did.

 

A buddy of mine, Doug Marks, recently opened my eyes to some sites that are putting out misleading product reviews fueled by Google Ad Words.  I wrote about this on my InfoWorld blog with a story entitled "FTC and Google need to crack down on scam review sites" which provides a counterpoint to the concerns on the US FTC's blogger disclosure rules that become effective …

At today's Web 2.0 Expo keynote with Kevin Rose and Jay Adelson they mentioned they'd done a lot of architecture work on Digg including moving things from MySQL to Cassandra.

I guess something like this was on the table in 2006, mentioned in this O'Reilly article, but the comments clear it up as more of a "we've thought about it and are sticking with MySQL."

This whole idea of NoSQL, and that developers would rank performance over normalization and ability to use joins is interesting. At today's NoSQL talk there was a good Q/A where …

MySQL Connector/Net 6.1.3, a new version of the all-managed .NET driver for MySQL has been released. This is our latest GA release and is suitable for use in all scenarios against servers ranging from version 4.1 to 5.4!

It is now available in source and binary form from [http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/net/6.1.html] and mirror sites (note that not all mirror sites may be up to date at this point of time - if you can't find this version on some mirror, please try again later or choose another download site.)

This release builds on the cool new features introduced with 6.1.2 and adds the following changes/bugfixes.

• fixed session state provider table definition to allow more than 64K per-session data (bug#47339)
• fixed compilation problem in NativeDriver inside ExecuteDirect  (bug #47354)
• fixed …

MySQL Connector/Net 6.2.1, a new version of the all-managed .NET driver
for MySQL has been released. This is a beta release and is intended to
introduce you to the new features and enhancements we are planning. This
release should not be used in a production environment.

It is now available in source and binary form from
[http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/net/6.2.html] and mirror sites
(note that not all mirror sites may be up to date at this point of time
- if you can't find this version on some mirror, please try again later
or choose another download site.)

The new features or changes in this release are:

• fixed SessionProvider to be compatible with 4.x MySQL, replaced TIMESTAMPDIFF with TIME_TO_SEC (bug#47219)
• implemented support for client SSL certificates …