I want to get benchmark numbers with MySQL 8.0.11. This is my first impression. The default auth method was changed to caching_sha2_password. See this post for more details. There will be some confusion with this change. By confusion I mean the difference between "error" and "OK because cached" below. I am not alone. See the experience that an expert had with replication.

Fun with caching_sha2_password occurs even with clients compiled as part of 8.0.11:

1. install MySQL 8.0.11, disable SSL but use mostly default my.cnf
2. bin/mysql -u... -p... -h127.0.0.1 -e ... -> error
3. bin/mysql -u... -p... -e ... -> OK
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The MySQL Server Team has announced the General Availability of MySQL 8.0. You can download it here. Quoting their blog post, some key enhancements include:

SQL Window functions, Common Table Expressions, NOWAIT and SKIP LOCKED, Descending Indexes, Grouping, Regular Expressions, Character Sets, Cost Model, and Histograms.

JSON Extended syntax, new functions, improved sorting, and partial

Well here we go another MySQL conference / Percona Live.

Another huge and important event/milestone for the MySQL community. 

But this time I will not be there.

First time in many years I had to decline, drop my speech and say... "No I am so sorry, this time I cannot come".

Was not an easy choice, not only because I am always excited to meet old colleagues, but also because PLSC is a great moment for brainstorming and to identify what could be good to push-on or to investigate better.

Especially this year where we have so many different interesting topics and so many different technologies as well. 

And of course the MySQL 8 GA will make a huge wave, but that was expected. To be honest what I am more interested to see is... what the real adoption of it will means. In Percona, we are working to be able to have it's adoption to happen as smoother as possible.

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As we all know, MySQL supports using SSL to secure connections by encrypting the data in transit and protecting it from snooping on the wire.

As of now, since version v1.2.0e, ProxySQL supports SSL connections to the backends. Frontend SSL is enabled by default from version 2.0, which is under development.
Even if frontend SSL is not available before 2.0 version , there is a way to secure frontend traffic by deploying ProxySQL with app hosts and use sockets instead of tcp.

This document will cover how to integrate ProxySQL Backend SSL with MySQL to use an encrypted connection.

Enable Encryption on MySQL

Configuring MySQL for Encrypted Connections is out of the scope of this article, used information found in the following link to enable SSL on server.
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Introduction

We can categorize the InnoDB tablespaces created by users, broadly in following categories.

1. File-per-table Tablespace - A single, file-per-table tablespace created in the datadir, which contains only one table.
2. General Tablespace   - A shared tablespace created in the datadir, which may contain multiple tables.
3. External File-per-table Tablespace - A single, file-per-table tablespace created outside of the datadir, which contains only one table.
4. External General Tablespace - A shared tablespace created outside of the datadir, which may contain multiple tables.

External tablespaces are sometimes called remote tablespaces, but both refer to a single or shared, file-per-table tablespace outside of the datadir.

Prior to MySQL 8.0, the …

I stopped reviewing MySQL Release Notes for quite a some time, but major GA releases of MySQL do not happen often, so I decided to make an exception and write about some bugs from Community users fixed in MySQL 8.0.11 GA.

I'll start with good news about MySQL 8.0.11 GA! You can get sources at GitHub, and I had no problems to build on Fedora 27 on my good old QuadCore box, using the following cmake command line:
[openxs@fc23 mysql-server]$ cmake . -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo -DBUILD_CONFIG=mysql_release -DFEATURE_SET=community -DWITH_EMBEDDED_SERVER=OFF -DDOWNLOAD_BOOST=1 -DWITH_BOOST=/home/openxs/boost …

I am now in an airport, waiting for one of the four flights that will bring me to Percona Live Santa Clara 2018.  This is a good time to write some details about my tutorial on parallel replication.  But before talking about Percona Live, I will share thoughts on MySQL/MariaDB bugs that caught my attention in the last weeks/months (Valeriy: you clearly have an influence on me).

MySQL/MariaDB

It is a great today for whole MySQL community: MySQL 8.0 was just released as GA!

Geir Høydalsvik has a great summary in his “What’s New in MySQL 8.0” blog post. You can find additional information about MySQL 8.0 Replication and MySQL 8.0 Document Store that is also worth reading.

If you can’t wait to upgrade to MySQL 8.0, please make sure to read the  …

We are very happy to announce the general availability of MySQL Enterprise Monitor, Version 8.0. MySQL Enterprise Monitor is the best-in-class tool for monitoring and management of your MySQL assets and is included with your MySQL Enterprise Edition and MySQL Enterprise Carrier Grade subscriptions.

You can find more information on the contents of this release in the change log.

Highlights of MySQL Enterprise Monitor 8.0 include:

• MySQL Enterprise Monitor 8.0 supports monitoring MySQL Server 8.0.11 and later. You can also use MySQL Server 8.0 as an external data repository for MySQL Enterprise Monitor 8.0.
• Significant improvements have been made to the performance and user interface of the Query Analyzer. When you click on a SQL statement, the new Statement Details page enables you to browse all example …

Dear MySQL users,

MySQL Connector/Python 8.0.11 is the first GA release version of the MySQL Connector Python 8.0 series. This series adds support for the new X DevAPI. The X DevAPI enables application developers to write code that combines the strengths of the relational and document models using a modern, NoSQL-like syntax that does not assume previous experience writing traditional SQL.

To learn more about how to write applications using the X DevAPI, see http://dev.mysql.com/doc/x-devapi-userguide/en/. For more information about how the X DevAPI is implemented in MySQL Connector/Python, and its usage, see http://dev.mysql.com/doc/dev/connector-python.

Please note that the X DevAPI requires MySQL Server version 5.7.12 or higher with the X Plugin enabled. For general …