Let’s stay a bit longer with MySQL 3.2x to advance the MySQL Retrospective in anticipation of the 30th Anniversary. The idea of this article was suggested to me by Daniël van Eeden. Did you know that in the early days, and therefore still in MySQL 3.20, MySQL used the ISAM storage format? IBM introduced the […]

To further advance the MySQL Retrospective for the Advent Calendar in anticipation of the 30th Anniversary, today, let’s discuss the very first version of MySQL that became availble to a wide audient though the popular InfoMagic distribution: MySQL 3.20! In 1997, InfoMagic incorporated MySQL 3.20 as part of the RedHat Contrib CD-ROM (MySQL 3.20.25). Additionally, […]

For today’s retrospective post on the MySQL Advent Calendar 2024, we will examine the MySQL Certifications. MySQL AB released certifications in 2002 as you can see in the following announcement: For a long time, the two exams were proposed and maintained. I remember when I passed my first one, you first needed to validate the […]

Did you know that in previous versions of MySQL there were some “hidden” functions that not many users knew about? One of them disappeared on the 16th of October 2012 with the release of 5.6.8rc. Did you find which one it was? SHOW AUTHORS SHOW AUTHORS was last present in 5.6.7rc and displayed a list […]

Last month we released MySQL 9.1, the latest Innovation Release. Of course, we released bug fixes for 8.0 and 8.4 LTS but in this post, I focus on the newest release. Within these releases, we included patches and code received by our amazing Community. Here is the list of contributions we processed and included in […]

As announced yesterday, the MySQL Devroom is back at FOSDEM! For people preparing for their travel to Belgium, we want to announce that the MySQL Belgian Days fringe event will be held on the Thursday and Friday before FOSDEM. This event will take place on January 30th and 31st, 2025, in Brussels at the usual […]

We are pleased to announce the Call for Participation (CfP) for the FOSDEM 2025 MySQL Devroom. The Devroom will be held on February 2 (Sunday), 2025 in Brussels, Belgium. The submission deadline for talk proposals is December 1, 2024. FOSDEM is a free event for software developers to meet, share ideas, and collaborate. Every year, […]

Stewardship of a community is easy for new and emerging technology. After 29 years, MySQL has become one of the most-used and trusted open-source databases by millions of users worldwide. Leadership of a community at this scale can be complex. We strive to find a balance of stability and innovation, provide a stable and predictable […]

We saw in the previous post how we can deal with data stored in the new VECTOR datatype that was released with MySQL 9.0. We implemented the 4 basic mathematical operations between two vectors. To do so we created JavaScript functions. MySQL JavaScript functions are available in MySQL HeatWave and MySQL Enterprise Edition (you can […]

MySQL 9.0.0 has brought the VECTOR datatype to your favorite Open Source Database. There are already some functions available to deal with those vectors: This post will show how to deal with vectors and create our own functions to create operations between vectors. We will use the MLE Component capability to create JavaScript functions. JS […]