Connector/Net 6.6 (6.6.7 GA, published on Tuesday, 11 Nov 2014)

I'm proud to announce a new release with quite a few new things and tons of bugfixes.
Most important thing this time is the experimental support for connecting to PostgreSQL servers.

Get it from the download page.



Also noticable:
* Completely rewritten interface to plink.exe for SSH tunnel connections. Now supports dialogs which ask for trusting unknown host keys.
* Bind parameters in SQL queries. When your SQL query contains one or more ":myparam:" occurences, the right hand box offers to set a value for these parameters. Adrien, a former contributor from France, has developed this new feature.
* The "Find text on server" …

November is a busy month of events for Percona. Conferences in Moscow, London, Paris, Las Vegas, Buenos Aires, and Montevideo mean our experts are racking up the frequent flyer miles meeting users of Percona software from around the world, sharing our insights on MySQL performance and operations, and learning how others are growing and scaling their applications.

Percona started the month in Moscow attending and speaking at Highload++. This event from October 31 to November 1 welcomed thousands of experts from the biggest and brightest companies in Europe and around the world with a keen interest in developing large scale web applications.

From Moscow we traveled to London to host the annual Percona Live London event from …

November 10, 2014 By Severalnines

For an online shop, the website is the cash register and needs to be open 24/7. This new case study looks at how Spree migrated to a multi-server, highly available eCommerce platform to maintain high uptime and keep up with rapid growth.

In February this year, Spree …

PHP is a programming language used to design a large number od dynamic web pages. PHP is a reflective programming language, meaning the program code can be modified as it is executed and based on runtime behaviour.

The dynamic nature of PHP makes it ideal for the interactivity of the web.

As your first step to building expertise with PHP to develop applications that use MySQL efficiently for those applications, you can take the MySQL and PHP: Developing Dynamic Web Applications course. You can take this 4-day, live, instructor-led training from your own desk, no travel required. There are events on the schedule to suit different timezones. Dates already on the schedule include 25 November 2014, 20 January 2015, 31 March 2015, and 26 May 2015. …

We are pleased to announce that MySQL Enterprise Monitor 3.0.16 is now available for download on the My Oracle Support (MOS) web site. 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.

Based on feedback from our customers, MySQL Enterprise Monitor (MEM) 3.0 offers many significant improvements over previous releases. Highlights include:

• Policy-based automatic scheduling of rules and event handling (including email notifications) make administration …

With more and more business moving into the cloud, the inclination is to use more cloud-based databases services, such as Amazon RDS. Deployment of Amazon RDS is capable with just a few buttons, but there are big differences between firing up a simple database for testing, and translating that into a full deployment to be used in production. For this to work properly, you have to consider many

MySQL is the most popular and widely used open source database on the planet. OpenStack is fast evolving as the defacto open source cloud platform. OpenStack services such as Nova (Compute), Cinder (Storage), Neutron (Networking), to name just a few, all use MySQL as default datastore.

OpenStack is a cloud platform and therefore needs to be highly available. Understanding how to accomplish MySQL high availability is a key piece to making OpenStack highly available. This webinar will discuss MySQL high availability options for OpenStack with primary focus on high availability with Percona XtraDB Cluster/Galera. Tradeoffs with respect to other options as well as architectural considerations will be discussed.

This webinar is titled “Percona XtraDB Cluster as a MySQL HA Solution for Openstack” …

Next Saturday, 8 November 2014, at 19:30 I will be speaking about MySQL Fabric for PyConES 2014 (the Spanish version of the PyCon), the annual meeting point for all developers and enthusiasts of Python in Spain.
While I say myself that I am not a developer, a lot of my time as a MySQL consultant requires implementing automatic procedures (backups, health checks, AWS management, …) and for that I mainly use a combination of Python and Bash.

In my talk, which I have titled “MySQL Fabric, a High Availability solution for Connector/Python” I will explain how to setup and configure a set of MySQL servers and Python application clients using …

WizzyWeb 5 by Sullivan Software Systems (inventors of Open Platform as a ServiceTM) enables you to create professional PHP Reports, Data Entry Form Apps & Email Apps for MySQL with no programming in 1/10th the time it usually takes - an order of magnitude. If you are not using WizzyWeb you are working too hard.

WizzyWeb Features:

• Generates standard PHP source code, HTML & CSS
• Apps run on your website or in our cloud
• Connects live over the web to your database in real-time to design, run & test
• NEW! Custom style sheet support
• NEW! Custom PHP PDO database connection code
• NEW! Built-in light weight database administration with standard SQL
• NEW! Email Apps
• Complete control over every HTML property (full fidelity)
• Custom user-definable form field validation …