[This blog was written by Mike Frank, MySQL Product Management Director at Oracle]

We're very happy to announce release of MySQL Enterprise Transparent Data Encryption (TDE), included with MySQL Enterprise Edition.

About TDE

MySQL Enterprise Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) protects your critical data by enabling data-at-rest encryption in the database. It protects the privacy of your information, prevents data breaches and helps meet regulatory requirements including the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and numerous others.

MySQL Enterprise TDE highlights:

• Data at Rest Encryption
  • Strong AES 256 encryption for your MySQL InnoDB Tables
• Transparent to applications and users …

We're very happy to announce the general availability of the next release of MySQL Enterprise Monitor, version 3.2 (see the full changelog here). This is the best in class tool for monitoring and management of your MySQL assets, included with your MySQL Enterprise Edition subscription.

What's New?

With the new release you can:

1. Visually monitor and manage any complex replication type and setup available in MySQL 5.7 using the completely revamped  …

April is busy.

• First I speak at LonestarPHP on Relational Theory for Budding Einsteins April 6th at 1PM.
• Then: 5 MySQL Security Vulnerabilities and What to Do About Them
  Live Webinar: Thursday, April 7, 2016 at 10am ET/2pm GMT Regsiter Here
• Collaborate is the BIG Oracle User Groups conference in Las Vegaand you can find me in the Oracle DemoPod Area or at my talk on MySQL Certification.
• Percona Live Data …

MySQL Innovation Day is taking place on April 25 at Oracle Conference Center in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Attend the event to gain technical innovation and insight into MySQL. Get a snapshot of the latest MySQL development in the keynote, and then hear the new and exciting MySQL features that enable you to innovate in the next-generation applications during digital transformation.

• Hear the latest and greatest of MySQL directly from leading MySQL engineers at Oracle.
• Meet with your fellow MySQL professionals and learn from their real-world experiences.
• Enhance your MySQL knowledge and sharpen your skills.

Location: Oracle Conference Center
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Upscene Productions is proud to announce a new release
of the popular multi-DBMS development tool:

" Database Workbench 5.1.12 "

This release adds a few features and useful enhancements.

The full version 5.1.x change log is available here.

Version 5 added numerous new features and improvements to existing tools and the new, more consistent user interface is better than ever and works fine under Wine on Linux.

Version 5.1 includes SQL Azure, Windows Terminal Server and Firebird 3 support, additional data export functionality, improved Oracle XML and Object-type support, Diagramming enhancements and new printing features as well as improvements …

I will be speaking in Atlanta this week at the Great Wide Open conference. This is a fantastic multi-track conference but I hope you bought your tickets as Thursday is sold out and Wednesday about to be.

I will be speaking on the new JSON Data Type in MySQL 5.7 and Percon’s Peter Zaitsev will be speaking on Running MySQL on Linux. Please drop by the MySQL booth for some great swag (MySQL baseball hats, Boogiebots, and more).

As an update of the set of conferences and events where you can find and meet MySQL experts (blog posted on September 17), please find below the list of conference & events with our attendance. At some of them you can meet directly MySQL Community team, at others you can find other MySQL experts, please find more details at each show below. New events are marked with NEW! See the list below:

• March 2016
  • NEW! Great Wide Open, Atlanta, US (March 16-17, 2016)
    • MySQL Community team (David Stokes) is going to be part of this show with MySQL talk and booth. David will be talking about "MySQL's JSON Data Type", his talk is scheduled for Wednesday, March 16@4:15pm.
      
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we are pleased to invite you to the half day MySQL meeting organized by the MySQL Turkey User Group. Please find more details below:

• Date: April 7, 2016
• Place: Bahcesehir University Besiktas (map)
• Start at 13:30 (for ½ day)
• Agenda: 
  • 1.Yasin Saygılı, ISV IMC Consultant at Oracle Migration Center --- Key Note Speaker
  • 2.Yiğithan Tavşanoğlu, MySQL UG Turkey Leader --- MySQL Enterprise Backup
  • Break
  • 3.Ömer Faruk Şen, ‎IT Infrastructure and Security Consultant, ‎Serra Bilisim --- Open Source World and MySQL
  • 4.Ali …

We are pleased to announce that MySQL Enterprise Monitor 3.1.3 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 …

We are happy to announce the upcoming quarterly event "MySQL User Camp, Bangalore" on March 11, 2016, see details below:

• Date: March 11, 2016
• Time: 3-5pm
• Place: OC001, Block 1, B wing, Kalyani Magnum Infotech park, J.P. Nagar, 7th Phase, Bangalore-076
• More information & registration can be found at:
  • Facebook Group: MySQL User Camp
  • Google Group: bangalore-mysql-user-camp
  • Linked-in Group: …