OpenStack Live 2015: Call for speakers open through Nov. 9
I am proud to announce OpenStack Live, a new annual conference that will run in parallel with the Percona Live MySQL Conference & Expo at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Silicon Valley. The inaugural event, OpenStack Live 2015, is April 13-14, 2015. We are lining up a strong Conference Committee and are now accepting tutorial and breakout session speaking proposals through November 9.
…[Read more]The release notes for MySQL 5.7 DMR5 are starting to take shape on dev.mysql.com.
For me, what is one of the most exciting changes is that "Strict SQL mode is now enabled by default for transactional storage engines". This aligns very nicely with a post I wrote just recently about transitioning changes using initially a whitelist and then a blacklist.
User's with legacy applications still be able to opt-out of STRICT mode, but importantly new applications won't be accidentally trapped into sub-optimal defaults.
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona XtraBackup 2.2.4 on September 12th 2014. Downloads are available from our download site here and Percona Software Repositories.
Percona XtraBackup enables backups without blocking user queries, making it ideal for companies with large data sets and mission-critical applications that cannot tolerate long periods of downtime. Offered free as an open source solution, Percona XtraBackup drives down backup costs while providing unique features for MySQL backup.
…
[Read more]OpenStack: A MySQL DBA Perspective
I’ll have the pleasure to present, next Wednesday, September 17 at 10 a.m. PDT (1 p.m. EDT) a webinar titled “OpenStack: A MySQL DBA Perspective.” Everyone is invited.
The webinar will be divided into two parts. The first part will cover how MySQL can be used by the OpenStack infrastructure including the expected load, high-availability solutions and geo-DR.
The second part will focus on the use of MySQL within an OpenStack cloud. We’ll look into the various options that are available, the traditional ones and Trove. We’ll also discuss the block device options in regards with MySQL performance and, finally, we’ll review the high-availability implications of …
[Read more]
Upscene Productions is proud to announce version 1.5.2 of our
product called "Hopper".
Hopper is a Windows-based Stored Routine and Trigger Debugger,
available for InterBase, Firebird and MySQL.
This release brings a code parser bug fix.
For more information on Hopper, see our
website.
Click here for the news item at our website.
MySQL Proxy 0.8 (0.8.5 alpha, published on Friday, 05 Sep 2014)
Upscene Productions is proud to announce the availability of the
next major
version of the popular Windows based multi-DBMS development tool:
" Database Workbench 5 "
There have been 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!
"There is so much new in Database Workbench 5, I don't know where
to start", says Martijn Tonies, founder of Upscene Productions.
"This release adds code editor features, has diagramming
improvements, comes in multiple editions, is fully HiDPI aware
and offers tunnelling for MySQL and MariaDB connections. It all
was a lot of work, but it was worth it!"
"We worked closely with out customer and implemented many of
their requests and for new users, …
Connector/Python 1.2 (1.2.3 GA, published on Friday, 22 Aug 2014)
MySQL Utilities 1.4 (1.4.4 GA, published on Thursday, 31 Jul 2014)
MySQL Workbench 6.1 (6.1.7 GA, published on Friday, 27 Jun 2014)
