Yesterday I was able to present to the Portland MySQL Users Group two presentations that are important foundations for effective development with MySQL.

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With 26 years of architectural experience in RDBMS and 16 years of MySQL knowledge, my extensive …

In an earlier post titled Using Perl to send tweets stored in a MySQL database to twitter, I showed you a way to use MySQL to store tweets, and then use Perl to automatically send your tweets to twitter.

In this post, we will look at automatically sending a “thank you” to people who retweet your tweets – and we will be using Perl and MySQL again.

Just like in the first post, you will need to register your application with twitter via apps.twitter.com, and obtain the following:

consumer_key
consumer_secret
access_token
access_token_secret

One caveat: twitter has a rate limit on how often you may connect with your application – depending upon what you are trying to do. See …

Hi, everyone. Just a quick note here to let you all know that we’ve just added Debian 8 support to our Apt repos. We have the latest MySQL Server 5.6 ready for you, as well as the latest 5.7 Development Milestone, and more of our products for Debian 8 are in our QA pipeline as […]

Fedora comes with vim and gedit installed but the gedit installation is bare bones. You can update gedit to include supplemental Plug-ins with the following yum command as the root user:

yum install -y gedit-plugins

It generates the following log file:

Loaded plugins: langpacks, refresh-packagekit
mysql-connectors-community                                  | 2.5 kB  00:00     
mysql-tools-community                                       | 2.5 kB  00:00     
mysql56-community                                           | 2.5 kB  00:00     
pgdg93                                                      | 3.6 kB  00:00     
updates/20/x86_64/metalink                                  |  14 kB  00:00     
updates                                                     | 4.9 kB  00:00 …

Welcome to MySQL QA Episode 2: Build a MySQL Server – Git, Bazaar (bzr), Compiling, and Build Tools

In this episode you’ll learn how to build Percona Server and/or MySQL Server for QA purposes & more in this short 25 minute tutorial.

In HD quality (set your player to 720p!)

To watch the other episodes in this series, see the MySQL QA & Bash Linux Training Series post. If you missed MySQL QA Episode 1, it was titled “Bash/GNU Tools & Linux Upskill & Scripting Fun.” You are watch it here.

If you have any questions or comments, please leave them below.

The post …

Yesterday in 14 May at 7 PM we had our first meetup, thanks for great interest from our local community. It is also noted by Oracle: MySQL User Group meeting Azerbaijan
I spoke about contributing MySQL community and project, such ways as finding and reporting bugs, testing beta or RC versions, writing articles, giving tips, feedbacks so forth.
Also there was a note about code contribution paths, what is patch , how to get source code, what is GPL, OCA agreement etc.
Below i will put photos from meeting:

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MySQL 5.6.24 was recently released (it is the latest MySQL 5.6, is GA), and is available for download here.

For this release, there are 4 “Functionality Added or Changed” items:

• Functionality Added/Changed: CMake support was updated to handle CMake version 3.1.
• Functionality Added/Changed: The server now includes its version number when it writes the initial “starting” message to the error log, to make it easier to tell which server instance error log output applies to. This value is the same as that available from the version system variable. (Bug #74917)
• Functionality Added/Changed: ALTER TABLE did not take advantage of fast alterations that might otherwise apply to the operation to …

MySQL 5.5.43 was recently released (it is the latest MySQL 5.5, is GA), and is available for download here:

http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/5.5.html

This release, similar to the last 5.5 release, is mostly uneventful.

There were only 2 “Functionality Added or Changed” items this time, and 10 additional bugs fixed.

Out of the 10 bugs, there was 1 InnoDB bug, 1 replication bug, and 6 crashing bugs, all of which seemed rather minor or obscure. Here are the ones worth noting:

• Functionality Changed: CMake support was updated to handle CMake version 3.1.
• Functionality Added: The server now includes its version number when it writes the initial “starting” message to the error log, to make it easier to tell which server instance error log output applies to. This value is the …

Taxonomy upgrade extras: multi-source replicationmysql-replicationreplicationMulti-Master Replicationfan-in replicationrow filteringGTID

A MySQL customer of FromDual has different manufacturing plants spread across the globe. They are operated by local companies. FromDuals customer wants to maintain the manufacturing receipts centralized in a MySQL database in the Head Quarter in Europe. Each manufacturing plant should only see their specific data.

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MariaDB is looking to hire Support Engineers. If interested, email me your resume.

I look forward to hearing from you.