Today SkySQL is changing its name to MariaDB Corporation. This is something that I had both anticipated and I think it’s a great step for MariaDB.

I wanted here to to share my thoughts on how this change affects the MariaDB community.

The short version: As the MariaDB Corporation is the main driving force behind the development of the MariaDB server and the biggest support provider for it, it makes sense to give it a name that clearly communicates this fact.  The name change doesn’t of course stop the company to continue it’s excellent support for MySQL.

For MariaDB users and customers, the name change should not affect them in any way, except that it will make it easier for them to find more information about MariaDB as there is fewer names involved.

For the MariaDB Foundation, there is no big change either. After all, the MariaDB foundation was created to protect the MariaDB server, not the MariaDB …

I can’t remember why I was installing Oracle Enterprise Linux 7 on Oracle VirtualBox a while back, but I did notice something interesting. It ships, just like CentOS 7, MariaDB Server 5.5. Presumably, this means that MariaDB is now supported by Oracle, too ;-) [jokes aside, It’s likely because OEL7 is meant to be 100% compatible to RHEL7]

The only reason I mention this now is Vadim Tkachenko, probably got his most …

I have 2 sessions at Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco this Thursday (2nd October 2014); please come along if your in town and feel free to grab me after the sessions for any extra questions:

NoSQL and SQL: The Best of Both Worlds [CON2853]

Thursday, Oct 2, 9:30 AM – 10:15 AM – Moscone South – 252

There’s a lot of excitement about NoSQL data stores, with the promise of simple access patterns, flexible schemas, scalability, and high availability. The downside comes in the form of losing ACID transactions, consistency, flexible queries, and data integrity checks. What if you could have the best of both worlds? This session shows how MySQL Cluster provides simultaneous SQL and native NoSQL access to your data—whether it’s in a simple key-value API (memcached) or REST, JavaScript, Java, or C++. You will …

I had quite a good time at LinuxCon North America/CloudOpen North America 2014, alongside my colleague Max Mether – between us, we gave a total of five talks. I noticed that this year there was a database heavy track — Morgan Tocker from Oracle’s MySQL Team had a few talks as did Martin MC Brown from Continuent. 

The interest in MariaDB stems from the fact that people are starting to just see it appear in CentOS 7, and its just everywhere (you can even get it from the latest Ubuntu LTS). This makes for giving interesting talks, since many are shipping MariaDB 5.5 as the default choice, …

Are you attending Oracle Open World? Would you like to know more about Oracle DevOps products for managing your MySQL servers? If so, stop by Tuesday, September 30 at 10:15 in the Hotel Nikko – Bay View and join us for a hands on lab (HOL9234) for MySQL Utilities and Connector/Python.

We will present the basics for getting started using Python to manage your MySQL servers. MySQL Utilities includes utilities for a wide variety of operations from displaying GRANT statements to setting up automatic failover for replication.

Check out the abstract for the HOL here.

Oracle OpenWorld 2014 is starting today, and MySQL Central Conference since this year is taking a full part of it. I'm very happy to be there and have 2 talks :

• MySQL 5.7 : Performance and Scalability Benchmarks | Wed, 1/Oct. | 2:00 PM - 2:45 PM | Moscone South - 252 | CON5066
• MySQL Performance : Demystified Tuning and Best Practices | Thu, 2/Oct. | 10:45 AM - 11:30 AM | Moscone South - 252 | CON5097

so I'll be able to say more this time and mostly focus on the Benchmarks results & analyzes on the first talk, and then mainly focus on the tuning and the latest MySQL 5.7 design improvements to allow you to reach yet more higher & stable …

The MySQL Utilities Team is pleased to announce the alpha release of MySQL
Utilities. This release represents a new evolution of the product including the
following enhancements.

• The mysqlprocgrep utility now displays the processes and connections killed
  during a –kill operation. The displayed rows come from the appropriate SHOW
  PROCESSLIST entries.
• The mysqlbinlogmove utility was added. It relocates binary log files, and
  moves files based on their sequence number or modified date.
• The mysqlgrants utility was added. It displays grants per object, and
  produces reports by user, user with grants, and GRANT statement.
• Health reports can now be generated for a list of slaves without a master
  specified. In this case, “No master specified” appears for connection status for
  each slave, instead of an error.

…

The MySQL Utilities Team is pleased to announce the general availability (GA)
release of MySQL Utilities. This release includes a number of improvements for
useabilty, stability, and a few enhancements. A complete list of all
improvements can be found in our release_notes.

New Enhancements!

This release represents a stable release of the product. Along with several defect patches, we also include the following enhancements.

• The mysqlserverclone utility now checks diskspace as a prerequisite to cloning the server.
• The –force option was removed from the mysqlfailover utility to remove confusion on its purpose.
• A warning is issued if the mysqld –skip-innodb option is used because this option is ignored in MySQL 5.7 and later.
• Utilities can correctly …

Download MariaDB 10.0.14

Release Notes Changelog What is MariaDB 10.0?

MariaDB APT and YUM Repository Configuration Generator

The MariaDB project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of MariaDB 10.0.14. This is a Stable (GA) release.

See the Release Notes and …

We are pleased to announce the third release in the 0.6 series of mydumper, a tool for performing logical MySQL backups. In this release, we focused on simplifying compiling the code and added new features for making logical backups. These new features include enhancements to AWS RDS support and extending TokuDB support.

Due to recent changes (or not so much) on mysql libs, it became impossible to compile mydumper without the complete mysql source code. To simplify this, we had to disable the binlog functionality by default, as it was the one affected by the mysql libs changes. Now you should be able to compile against any mysql version without issues. If you still want the binlog feature, it is still there and you can enable it with:

cmake . -DWITH_BINLOG=ON

The one caveat is that you will need to compile against a mysql version greater than 5.5.34. It’s also possible to …