Next Thursday (September 3, 13:00 UTC), we'll resume MySQL University sessions after the summer break with Reggie Burnett, head of Connector/NET development, giving a session on new features in Connector/NET 6.1.

For MySQL University sessions, point your browser to this page. You need a browser with a working Flash plugin. You may register for a Dimdim account, but you don't have to. (Dimdim is the conferencing system we're using for MySQL University sessions. It provides integrated voice streaming, chat, whiteboard, session recording, and more.) All MySQL University sessions are recorded, that is, slides and voice can be viewed as a Flash movie (.flv). You can find …

Some time ago I posted a compilation of applications and programming languages that provide an API to connect to the MySQL Server. As it turned out, I forgot a few that I would like to mention here:

• Apache DBD API: a MySQL driver for mod_apr_dbd is not included in the official distribution, but can be obtained seperately from here. Some distributions (e.g. openSUSE) actually provide installable packages of this driver module.
• GRASS MySQL driver …

This Wednesday (May 20, 2009) Andrey Hristov and Ulf Wendel from the MySQL Connector development team are going to talk about the MySQL Connector for C++ at 10:00 AM PT. Andrey and Ulf are planning to talk about the architecture, API, portability, support for: buffered/unbuffered result sets, prepared statements, stored procedures; and the planned features for Connector/C++ 1.0.6 GA.

Plan to attend if you are a C++ developer working [or planning to work] on MySQL database applications. Anyone can attend this webinar for free, and it may last for about 45 minutes. Register at the following location to receive further instructions on how to join the web conference:

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This Wednesday (May 20, 2009) Andrey Hristov and Ulf Wendel from the MySQL Connector development team are going to talk about the MySQL Connector for C++ at 10:00 AM PT. Andrey and Ulf are planning to talk about the architecture, API, portability, support for: buffered/unbuffered result sets, prepared statements, stored procedures; and the planned features for Connector/C++ 1.0.6 GA.

Plan to attend if you are a C++ developer working [or planning to work] on MySQL database applications. Anyone can attend this webinar for free, and it may last for about 45 minutes. Register at the following location to receive further instructions on how to join the web conference:

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This Wednesday (May 20, 2009) Andrey Hristov and Ulf Wendel from the MySQL Connector development team are going to talk about the MySQL Connector for C++ at 10:00 AM PT. Andrey and Ulf are planning to talk about the architecture, API, portability, support for: buffered/unbuffered result sets, prepared statements, stored procedures; and the planned features for Connector/C++ 1.0.6 GA.

Plan to attend if you are a C++ developer working [or planning to work] on MySQL database applications. Anyone can attend this webinar for free, and it may last for about 45 minutes. Register at the following location to receive further instructions on how to join the web conference:

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With the introduction of MySQL Connector/C++, now C++ application developers have one additional option to choose from, to connect to MySQL Server 5.1 or later from a C++ application. Admittedly, as of today, there isn't enough documentation with examples to show the capabilities [and gotchas] of MySQL Connector/C++. I tried to fill that gap with the technical article, Developing Database Applications Using MySQL Connector/C++. Hopefully it serves as a starting point for the C++ developers while waiting for the MySQL Connectors documentation team to publish the official documentation on MySQL Developer Zone.

While you are at it, don't forget to check the supplement document, Installing MySQL Connector/C++ from Source, in case if you …

With the introduction of MySQL Connector/C++, now C++ application developers have one additional option to choose from, to connect to MySQL Server 5.1 or later from a C++ application. Admittedly, as of today, there isn't enough documentation with examples to show the capabilities [and gotchas] of MySQL Connector/C++. I tried to fill that gap with the technical article, Developing Database Applications Using MySQL Connector/C++. Hopefully it serves as a starting point for the C++ developers while waiting for the MySQL Connectors documentation team to publish the official documentation on MySQL Developer Zone.

While you are at it, don't forget to check the supplement document, Installing MySQL Connector/C++ from Source, in case if you …

With the introduction of MySQL Connector/C++, now C++ application developers have one additional option to choose from, to connect to MySQL Server 5.1 or later from a C++ application. Admittedly, as of today, there isn't enough documentation with examples to show the capabilities [and gotchas] of MySQL Connector/C++. I tried to fill that gap with the technical article, Developing Database Applications Using MySQL Connector/C++. Hopefully it serves as a starting point for the C++ developers while waiting for the MySQL Connectors documentation team to publish the official documentation on MySQL Developer Zone.

While you are at it, don't forget to check the supplement document, Installing MySQL Connector/C++ from Source, in case if you …

Version 1.0.3-alpha of the MySQL Connector/C++ has just been announced by Lawrin Novitsky and is now available for download. This driver is licensed under the GPL and is a new implementation of the MySQL Client/Server protocol. Instead of wrapping the C API calls in C++ methods, the implementation mimics the JDBC API, which hopefully feels much more "native" to a seasoned C++ developer.

The driver has been ported to a wide range of platforms and is about to hit the beta test phase. So if you're writing a C++ application that needs to connect to a MySQL Server, give it a try! The developers are always looking for …

This is quite a milestone for me! At last it possible to actually do some practical work with the BLOB streaming engine (MyBS)!

For this release I have completed changes to the MySQL Connector/J 5.0.7, to allow BLOB data to be transparently stored and retrieved from the MyBS BLOB repository. The new version of the driver is called MySQL Connector/J SE (streaming enabled).

Uploading a BLOB is as simple as using setBinaryStream() or setBlob() on INSERT or UPDATE. By using getBinaryStream() or getBlob() after a SELECT you get direct access to the data stream coming from the repository. More information and some examples are provided in the documentation at: http://www.blobstreaming.org/documentation.

To try this out you need to install the latest versions of PBXT and MyBS. Both are available from: …