MySQL Enterprise Monitor 2.3.21 is now available for download on the My Oracle Support (MOS) web site. This is a maintenance release that updates various third party components and fixes some 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) 3.0 offers many significant improvements over MEM 2.3. If you have not already analyzed upgrading any remaining 2.3 installations to MEM 3.0, we highly recommend you do so. More information on MEM 3.0 is available here:

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We are pleased to announce that MySQL Enterprise Monitor 3.0.24 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 …

What is the best way to get a quick and complete overview of all MySQL sessions at Oracle OpenWorld?

Check out our new "Focus on MySQL Central @ OpenWorld" page. You'll find out about the keynote, conference sessions, tutorials, Birds-of-a-Feather sessions, Hands-On Labs and more...

The page will be updated within a couple of weeks to include the location and time of all sessions.

MySQL Central @ OpenWorld promises to be a very exciting event where you'll be able to learn about all the new MySQL developments & plans and discuss face to face with the engineers developing the MySQL solutions. You'll also have ample time to network with your peers to get new ideas and discuss best practices. Don’t miss this once a year opportunity, …

Did you know that you can send custom metrics to VividCortex easily? It’s not something we’ve focused on, but it’s been possible to do since the beginning.

One of our agents is a StatsD, which means you can send metrics to it easily with any StatsD client (or none–because it’s easy to send metrics to it from a shell script too). The main difference between our agent and a typical StatsD is that you can send us one-second resolution data and it won’t immediately fill up disks on a Graphite server somewhere and crash it.

In fact, we send lots of metrics to ourselves about our agents, among other things. It makes it easy to troubleshoot and debug what’s happening. You can search and visualize all of the metrics in the metrics dashboard.

Metrics you send to VividCortex should be dot-delimited and the names …

The Texas Linxufest is Friday and Saturday in San Marcos, Texas. Come hear me speak about MySQL’s NoSQL on Saturday and get a MySQL plush dolphin . Drop by the booth for MySQL SWAG and to see MySQL 5.7.8-rc!

Plush Sakila MySQL mascot toy

Oracle’s MySQL team was very pleased to host a very successful MySQL Partner Advisory Forum earlier this month in Tokyo. Japanese partners got the opportunity to hear directly from Oracle’s MySQL executives, share best practices and network with their peers.

Rich Mason, SVP & General Manager of the MySQL Global Business Unit at Oracle, and Hiromasa Yazaki, Sr. Director of Sales in Japan, kicked off the event with a keynote address outlining Oracle’s MySQL strategy and sharing the latest news with Japanese partners. Juliana Castro, Business Development Director, subsequently dived into partner marketing and sales enablement topics.

During the following sessions, we had the pleasure to welcome on stage both Mr. Kaz Watanabe, General Manager, IT Architecture Integration Div. of IT Management Group of SCSK and Mr. Kazuya Notsu, CEO of Smart Style, to share their MySQL business best practices with the audience. 

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A few months ago, I pointed to a very interesting blog by Marty Weiner, Engineering Manager at Pinterest.

Marty posted another great blog "Sharding Pinterest: How we scaled our MySQL fleet":

"This is a technical dive into how we split our data across many MySQL servers. We finished launching this sharding approach in early 2012, and it’s still the system we use today to store our core data. 

...Pinterest is a discovery engine for everything that interests you. From a data perspective, Pinterest is the largest human curated interest graph in the world. There are more than 50 billion Pins that have been saved by Pinners onto one billion boards. People repin and like other Pins (roughly a …

We announced last month that the MySQL Central @ OpenWorld content catalog was live, and briefly touched upon our "State of the Dolphin & Customer Experiences" keynote. We’re now happy to provide more details.

During the first part, Rich Mason, General Manager of the MySQL Global Business Unit, and Tomas Ulin, Vice President of MySQL Engineering, will review Oracle’s latest innovations and plans.

For the second part, we will be very pleased to welcome on stage the following MySQL customers:

Olaniyi Oshinowo, MySQL & Open Source Technologies Leader at General Electric, will help you understand why they selected MySQL Cluster to power mission critical applications.

At Pinterest, MySQL is a mission-critical datastore containing …

We are pleased to announce that MySQL Enterprise Monitor 3.0.23 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 …