The Laravel folks are not letting the grass grow under their feet. The popular PHP Framework (motto ‘The PHP Framework For Web Artisans’) wraps their framework and the recently released MySQL 5.7 server software in a Vagrant image called Homestead ready for you to use.

I created a new directory for my new Laravel work, cd-ed into it, and then issued vagrant init laravel/homestead. As quick as my hotel wi-fi could support, I had 5.7, PHP 5.6.15 plus more on an Ubuntu 14.04 LTS virtual machine.

So if you want to easily try MySQL 5.7 or Laravel please Laravel Homestead a try

we are pleasure to invite you to the next MySQL User Group Helsinki meetup planned for November 24. The main topic is about MySQL 5.7 new InnoDB features such as fast temporary tables, virtual columns and much more. Please find more details below:

• Date: Tuesday, November 24, 2015
• Start Time: 6pm
• Place: Solinor Oy, Elimaenkatu 14, Helsinki
• Speakers: MySQL Developers Andrei Elkin & Marko Makela
• Meetup page

MySQL Enterprise Monitor 3.0.25 is now available for download on the My Oracle Support (MOS) web site. This is a maintenance release that includes a few enhancements 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) 3.1 offers many significant improvements over MEM 3.0 and we highly recommend that you consider upgrading. More information on MEM 3.1 is available here:

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Did you want a copy of a presentation slides from MySQL Central @ Oracle Open World? You can find them here

See the plus sign to the left of the title? Click on that and it will expand the entry to see the link for the presentation

Click on the plus sign next to the title to expose the link to the presentation and to see the description. The two pics are the unexpanded and expanded views of one of the tutorials.

And there is the link to the presentation!

MySQL Central @ Oracle Open World 2015 is over. For the MySQL Community Team the event feels like juggling running chainsaws while riding a unicycle on top of a surfboard that is plunging down the face of a monster North Shore typhoon driven wave. For those who have never attended Open World, it is an extra 50,000+ bodies in downtown San Franciso and Moscone Center, the site for the event, hums with people for a week. Add in an Elton John/Beck concert on Wednesday night for a full nights entertainment. Plus the week before this overwhelming event, MySQL 5.7 was made generally available which added yet another level of excitement this year.

So what did you miss?

Sadly Moscone Center was being remodeled during OOW this year and we lost about fifteen percent of the meeting space. For some of the bigger products in the Oracle portfolio, this was a major inconvenience. For MySQL, it meant that roughly a dozen or more …

Yahoo: Experiences with MySQL GTID and Multi Threaded Replication from Yashada Jadhav & Stacy Yuan

At Oracle Openworld 2015, we had an open conversation with the MySQL Community about our experiences with 5.6 features - GTID and Parallel Replication. This is our slide deck from the talk.

Yahoo: Experiences with MySQL GTID and Multi Threaded Replication from Yashada Jadhav & Stacy Yuan

At Oracle Openworld 2015, we had an open conversation with the MySQL Community about our experiences with 5.6 features - GTID and Parallel Replication. This is our slide deck from the talk.

Dear MySQL users,
The MySQL development team is pleased to announce that MySQL Enterprise Monitor 3.1 is now generally available (GA).
MySQL Enterprise Monitor provides real-time visibility into the performance and availability of all your MySQL databases. Start monitoring MySQL within 10 minutes with zero configuration and no agents. Installer packages for version 3.1 GA are available now on My Oracle Support and a free trial will be available on the Oracle Software Delivery Cloud at the next monthly refresh in November. For more information, see http://www.mysql.com/products/enterprise/monitor.html and the Useful URLs below.
Version 3.1 adds significant enhancements in the areas of security and performance tuning. …