Today we released The CIS Oracle MySQL Community Server 5.6 Benchmark v1.0.0

This is a benchmark which can be used to secure your MySQL installation.

Percona CEO Peter Zaitsev leads a track at the inaugural Percona University event in Raleigh, N.C. on Jan. 29, 2013.

About two years ago we held our first-ever Percona University event in Raleigh, N.C. It was a great success with high attendance and very positive feedback which led us to organize a number of similar educational events in different locations around the world.

And next month we’ll be back where it all started. On February 12, Percona University comes to Raleigh – and this time the full-day educational event will be much more cool. What have we changed? Take a look at the agenda. …

As follow up to the previous announcement from November 28, 2014, here is the list of known events where you can find MySQL team. Please find the list below:

February 2015:

• SunShinePHP, Florida, US (February 5-7, 2015)
  • MySQL Community team is Bronze sponsor of this show and you can find there our MySQL Community member.
• DrupalCon Bogota, Colombia (February 10-12, 2015)
  • Find MySQL at MySQL booth in the exhibition area as well as at following talk/session:
    • Tue, Feb 10, 2015@ 5-6pm on "Drupal + MySQL in Colombia & beyond: real life examples of Site Builds" by Pedro …

The binary and source versions of MySQL Cluster 7.2.19 have now been made available at http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/cluster/7.2.html.

MySQL Cluster NDB 7.2.19 is a maintenance release of MySQL Cluster, incorporating fixes for bugs found in previous MySQL Cluster NDB 7.2 development releases.

MySQL Cluster NDB 7.2.19 source code and binaries can be obtained from here.

Review the MySQL Cluster 7.2.19 Release Notes for a description of the bug fixes included.

Percona is pleased to announce the availability of Percona Toolkit 2.2.13.  Released January 26, 2015. Percona Toolkit is a collection of advanced command-line tools to perform a variety of MySQL server and system tasks that are too difficult or complex for DBAs to perform manually. Percona Toolkit, like all Percona software, is free and open source.

This release is the current GA (Generally Available) stable release in the 2.2 series. It includes multiple bug fixes for pt-table-checksum with better support for Percona XtraDB Cluster, various other fixes, as well as continued preparation for MySQL 5.7 compatibility. Full details are below. Downloads are available  …

We are pleased to announce that MySQL (and not only MySQL) is again a part of the biggest open source conference in Europe - FOSDEM 2015 this weekend!! Same as in previous years we will again share the booth with other groups @Oracle. You will be able to find MySQL, Oracle Linux and Java on one place in the exhibition area. Please find more details about the event below:

• Name: Fosdem 2015
• Place: Brussels, Belgium
• Date: January 31-February 1, 2015
• URL

Same as last year there is a MySQL dev.room set for MySQL related presentations. You can see the whole schedule of this dev.room at MySQL and friends devroom. All MySQL presentations are scheduled for Sunday, February 1, 2015 from 9:00am-4:40pm. 

Tradition calls for a MySQL …

On January 29, 2015 there will be another run of Madrid MySQL User Group meeting. Please find details below:

• Date: Thursday, Jan 29, 2015
• Time: 7:00 - 8:30 pm
• Place: Calle de Alburquerque, 14, Madrid 28010
• Proposed topics: MySQL MaxScale
• More information & registration could be found at MMUG meetup page

Come to hear news from MySQL world!

In my recent blog post, I announced a set of proposed changes to defaults for MySQL 5.7.

I'm now using these settings on my WordPress blog, which is powered by MyQL 5.7.5. The supplimental config file comes from my GitHub project called mysql-compatibility-config.

Here were the steps required:

[root@mysqldb2 ~]# cd /etc
[root@mysqldb2 etc]# wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/morgo/mysql-compatibility-config/master/mysql-57/mysql-57-proposed.cnf
--2015-01-23 12:29:00--  https://github.com/morgo/mysql-compatibility-config/blob/master/mysql-57/mysql-57-proposed.cnf
Resolving github.com (github.com)... …

The binary and source versions of MySQL Cluster 7.3.8 have now been made available at http://www.mysql.com/downloads/cluster/.

Release notes

MySQL Cluster NDB 7.3.8 is a new release of MySQL Cluster, based on MySQL Server 5.6 and including features from version 7.3 of the NDB storage engine, as well as fixing a number of recently discovered bugs in previous MySQL Cluster releases. Obtaining MySQL Cluster NDB 7.3. MySQL Cluster NDB 7.3 source code and binaries can be obtained from
http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/cluster/.

For an overview of changes made in MySQL Cluster NDB 7.3, see MySQL Cluster Development in MySQL Cluster NDB 7.3 (
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Upscene releases Database Workbench 5.0.8

Upscene Productions is proud to announce a new release of the popular multi-DBMS development tool:
" Database Workbench 5 "

This release includes bug fixes.

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

Database Workbench now comes in multiple editions with different pricing models, there's always a version that suits you!

"A few bugs popped up after the initial version 5 release, all minor issues but also a lack of documentation showing in the trial version. I'm proud of the team that thoroughly tested the version 5 release", says Martijn Tonies, founder of Upscene Productions. "The major version 5 release adds adds code editor features, has diagramming …