MySQL Notifier 1.1 (1.1.7 GA, published on Monday, 01 Aug 2016)

We are pleased to announce that MySQL Enterprise Monitor 3.2.4 is now available for download on the My Oracle Support (MOS) web site. It will also be available via the Oracle Software Delivery Cloud in a few weeks. This is a maintenance release that includes a few new features and fixes a number of bugs. You can find more information on the contents of this release in the change log.

You will find binaries for the new release on My Oracle Support. Choose the "Patches & Updates" tab, and then choose the "Product or Family (Advanced Search)" side tab in the "Patch Search" portlet.

You will also find the binaries on the Oracle Software Delivery Cloud in a few weeks. Choose "MySQL Database" as the Product Pack and you …

I will be speaking at the Converge Security Conference on July 14th on MySQL 5.7 security. There were many changes in 5.7 and it has been very hard to get the majority of those changes in a forty minute presentation. And is with just scratching the surface with the new encryption for InnoDB. If you are are attending please say ‘hi’!

I hope to see y’all at the Texas Linxufest this weekend in Austin. If all you all are looking for some MySQL swag (push dolphins, squish dolphins, hats) you will need to answer some new MySQL quiz questions to win. And y’all all are welcome to be in room Three at 3:00PM to hear me talk on MySQL & JSON — I have had to update this presentation after several new features in MySQL 5.7.13.

We are pleased to announce that MySQL Enterprise Monitor 3.2.3 is now available for download on the My Oracle Support (MOS) web site. It will also be available via the Oracle Software Delivery Cloud in a few weeks. This is a maintenance release that includes a few new features and fixes a number of bugs. You can find more information on the contents of this release in the change log.

You will find binaries for the new release on My Oracle Support. Choose the "Patches & Updates" tab, and then choose the "Product or Family (Advanced Search)" side tab in the "Patch Search" portlet.

You will also find the binaries on the Oracle Software Delivery Cloud in a few weeks. Choose "MySQL Database" as the Product Pack and you …

As an update to the previous announcement, please find below list of events where you can find either MySQL Community team or MySQL experts at.  Please find more details at each conference below.  New events are marked with NEW! Any update to already announced event is marked as UPDATE!:

• July 2016:
  • NEW! Debian Conference 2016, Cape Town, Africa (July 2-9, 2016) 
    • MySQL Community team is going to support this conference financially even without staffing. 
  • Open Source Conference Okinawa 2016, Japan (July 2, 2016)
    • As tradition we are going to actively participate at this OS event, this time in Okinawa, Japan. There will …

Connector/Net 6.8 (6.8.8 GA, published on Friday, 01 Jul 2016)

The Release Notes for MySQL 5.7.13 has some interesting notices about account length, JSON short cuts, and more.

A Rose By Any Other Name

Way back in 5.7.8 the account username was increased from sixteen to thirty two characters. Yeah! For many years this has been heavily requested. Now this has been incorporated in the definer fields of event and proc tables plus the grantor field of procs_priv and tables_priv tables. To do this these columns where bumped up from CHAR(77)) to CHAR(93) to hold the longer username@hostname data.

JSON Inline Path

An unquoting extraction operator ->>, called an inline path operator, is for use with JSON documents stored in MySQL. The new operator is similar to the -> operator which is a shotcut for JSON_EXTRACT. But it goes a step further in that it …

It’s our pleasure to announce the first Barcelona MySQL User Group Meetup scheduled for June 22, 2016. Please find more details below:

• Date: June 22, 2016 
• Time: 19:00 - 21:00 
• Place: Oracle Barcelona Office, Av. Diagonal 615, PTA 8, Barcelona (map) 
• Proposed agenda: 
  • Barcelona MySQL User Group introduction (where we will be discussing the frequency of meetings, issues of interests, our expectations, possible location etc.) by Joaquim Ritort, the MySQL Account Manager 
  • MySQL 5.7: What’s New? by Abel Florez, the MySQL Technical Account Manager 
  • High Availability of Read Replicas in RDS (MySQL ) AWS / Amazon by Nicola Strappazzon, the Database …

We are pleased to announce that MySQL Enterprise Monitor 3.2.2 is now available for download on the My Oracle Support (MOS) web site. It will also be available via the Oracle Software Delivery Cloud in a few weeks. This is a maintenance release that includes a few new features and fixes a number of bugs. You can find more information on the contents of this release in the change log.

You will find binaries for the new release on My Oracle Support. Choose the "Patches & Updates" tab, and then choose the "Product or Family (Advanced Search)" side tab in the "Patch Search" portlet.

You will also find the binaries on the Oracle Software Delivery Cloud in a few weeks. Choose "MySQL Database" as the Product Pack and you …