Although smartphone penetration and 3G/4G coverage is increasing, the cost of data access is still beyond most people’s reach in emerging markets. The GSMA Foundation estimates (i) that only one-fifth of mobile connections in Sub-Saharian Africa are based on 3G, with 4G accounting for less than 1% of the connection base. The GSMA also estimates that "despite the shift in the region towards smartphones and mobile broadband, nearly 450 million connections will still be based on feature phones by 2020".

Myriad Connect Division is working closely with Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) worldwide to provide "no data access users" innovative and compelling services, creating new opportunities for operators to achieve 100% market reach worldwide and generate new revenues. The company offers MNOs & B2B integrators a best-in-class Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD) platform, allowing them to easily create and deploy compelling …

We are pleased to announce that MySQL Enterprise Monitor 3.1.4 is now available for download on the My Oracle Support (MOS) web site. 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.

Important: MySQL Enterprise Monitor (MEM) 3.2 offers many significant improvements over MEM 3.1 and we highly recommend that you consider upgrading. More information on MEM 3.2 is available here:

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We are happy to announce that there will be another MySQL user group meeting organized by MyNA (mySQL Nippon Association) in May 2016. Please find more details below:

• Date: May 30, 2016
• Time: 19:30-21:30 JST
• Place: Oracle Aoyama Center Seminar Room at 13F, Tokyo, Japan 
• Focus of the meeting: This meeting focuses on reports from Percona Live 2016 in Santa Clara. There will be two speakers, MySQL GBU and MySQL User Group member. Both attended Percona Live 2016. The planned agenda is:
  • "Days during joining in Percona Live" by @mita2, Yahoo Japan Corporation, MySQL User who has joined to Parcona Live as audience. He will talk about sessions which he has attended at Percona Live days.
  • "What's new in Percona Live" by @yyamasaki1 - Yoshiaki Yamasaki, MySQL GBU. He will be talking about Transparent Data Encryption and Docstore.
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We are happy to announce the next SMUG (Swedish MySQL User Group) meeting scheduled for May 24th! Please find more detail below:

• Date: May 24, 2016
• Time: 5pm-8pm (+)
• Place: Emineo, Lilla västerbron 20” in Stockholm, Sweden
• Proposed agenda: there is scheduled a few talks by the members about their MySQL environments, and discussion about 5.7 with some focus on the JSON functionality. 
• More details: Facebook, LinkedIn

 Come to join the SMUG meeting! 

We sometimes get the question "Will MySQL scale to meet my needs?". Well, consider the following examples:

• Booking.com processes 2 billion events/day relying on MySQL.
• Facebook started out with MySQL, and scaled to 1.6 billion monthly active users.
• Playing Candy Crush? You’re not the only one, 850 million games are played/day, served by MySQL.
• PayPal built a globally-distributed database with 100 TB of user-related data based on MySQL Cluster. It is used for fraud detection globally; a highly mission critical transactional application.

MySQL solutions have become very popular in Asia as well, where certain countries with very large populations are relying on MySQL technologies to meet extremely high scalability requirements for mission critical applications. For instance:

• MySQL Cluster powers a mobile network supporting over 800 million …

We are pleased to announce that MySQL Enterprise Monitor 3.2.1 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 blog posted on Apr 29, 2016, 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 …

The MySQL Innovation Day took place on Monday, April 25, at the Oracle Conference Center in Redwood Shores, California. Jam-packed with 9 sessions delivered by Oracle's MySQL team, the event offered great opportunity for the attendees to learn the latest products and features in MySQL 5.7, including replication, security, optimizer, JSON-support, as well as the recently-announced MySQL Document Store.

We would like to thank all the attendees for participating in this event. Your enthusiasm for learning more about MySQL, through interactive discussions in each of the sessions and through sharing your own experience using MySQL, made this event even more unique and valuable for speakers and your fellow attendees.

If you missed this event or would like to review the content, you can access the presentations here or download …

Percona Live 2016 was the most impressive show in a long line of shows that started with the old MySQL Users Conference. There were a lot of old familiar faces or familiar faces grown old. During my stint as MySQL Certification Manager I usually was at the other end of the conference center / hotel complex administering exams. But this year I would be able to attend sessions, network, and see the heart of the MySQL Community.

Bill Nye

From the opening keynotes featuring TV personality Bill Nye to the final drawing where I won a Bill Nye autographed book, the show was filled with information on several data stores just not MySQL. This show was more about managing data with the proper tool and not just managing data with MySQL. All the session were recorded and will be posted — have patience as it takes time to get all 195 speakers’s material formatted.

Meet the MySQL Engineering Team Birds of a Feather Session

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Been seeing references to the new document store features of MySQL 5.7 and want to try it on Windows? The new features of MySQL require a download of the new mysqlsh msi or zip.

Welcome to MySQL Shell 1.0.3.5

Installation is a snap.

You can also determine where to keep your new mysql

The installation msi quickly guides you through the choices and your best bet for now is to pick the defaults. If you have used the 5.7 msi server install before there are no surprises. But you are offered the opportunity to change the options for such things such as location of the binaries. Again the defaults worked well for me. In a very short time you can launch the new shell.

And then you are ready to use mysqlsh.

And then you have the new shell with the new protocol!

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