We had a good time catching up with the MySQL community. Stacy Yuan and Yashada Jadhav from our team gave a great presentation on MySQL 5.6 GTIDs and Parallel Replication. You can find the presentation here 

Richard Mason and Martin Mikos cut the MySQL 20th Anniversary cake at the 2015 MySQL Community Reception

The annual MySQL Community Reception brought over one hundred and seventy members of the MySQL Community Together for a night of friendship, nostalgia, and entertainment. As in 2014, the event was held at Jillian’s on the Tuesday Night of Oracle Open World. I was working the door making sure those attending got their wrists bands that ensured the free food and drink were available to the holders. The event was open to all and not just OOW attendees.

It was great to many old faces. Martin Mikos, MySQL’s first CEO, joined us in celebrating the twentieth anniversary of MySQL. He later cut a cake with Rich Mason who now heads MySQL. There were too many others to name all but look through the pics in this post and you will …

We're very happy to announce the general availability of the next release of Oracle Enterprise Manager for MySQL, version 12.1.0.3.0 (see the full changelog here). This is the official MySQL plugin for Enterprise Manager 12c, offering a fully supported and integrated solution that is included with your MySQL Enterprise Edition subscription.

What's New: MySQL 5.7 and Enterprise Server Plugin Support

With the new release you can:

1. Monitor your new MySQL 5.7 …

Connector/Net 6.7 (6.7.9 GA, published on Wednesday, 21 Oct 2015)

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Upscene releases Database Workbench 5.1.6

Upscene Productions is proud to announce a new release of the popular multi-DBMS development tool:
" Database Workbench 5.1.6 "

This version is the next big release after version 5 and includes new features, enhancements and fixes.  Change for all 5.1.x 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 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 in other areas.
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In the past few months I have been inundated with questions about the new JSON data type. The man page for JSON is fascinating reading. So grab your favorite beverage, the JSON manual page, and take a comfy seat for reading. There are many highlights but be sure to check out some of these highlights.

• Automatic validation of JSON documents stored in JSON columns. Invalid documents produce an error and this is a big advantage over putting JSON data in a string column.
• JSON columns can not have a DEFAULT value, can not be indexed (virtual columns for secondary indexes are okay)
• MySQL handles strings used in a JSON columnusing the utf8mb4 character set and utf8mb4_bin collation.

One thing to note is that strings are normalized. If you duplicate a key the new value is discarded. …

Willie Yao recently posted a very interesting blog: "How We Partitioned Airbnb’s Main Database in Two Weeks". He describes how Airbnb's engineering team leveraged MySQL Replication to save significant time in their effort to scale their databases:

 "Heading into the 2015 summer travel season, the infrastructure team at Airbnb was hard at work scaling our databases to handle the expected record summer traffic. One particularly impactful project aimed to partition certain tables by application function onto their own database, which typically would require a significant engineering investment in the form of application layer changes, data migration, and robust testing to guarantee data consistency with minimal downtime. In an attempt to save weeks of engineering …

MySQL Central @ OpenWorld is right around the corner!

My Schedule enables you to effectively plan your conference and reserve you seat in sessions. You’ll also get notified of potential updates. Go ahead and start by adding the keynote "MySQL’s State of the Dolphin & Customer Experiences" to your agenda now! Rich Mason, General Manager of the MySQL Global Business Unit, and Tomas Ulin, Vice President of MySQL Engineering, will review Oracle’s latest MySQL innovations and plans. You'll subsequently get the chance to hear from MySQL customers including General Electric, Pinterest …