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It is official: MySQL listens to HTTP and speaks JSON. MySQL got a new plugin that lets HTTP clients and JavaScript users connect to MySQL using HTTP. The development preview brings three APIs: key-document for nested JSON documents, CRUD for JSON mapped SQL tables and plain SQL with JSON replies. More so: MySQL 5.7.4 has SQL functions for modifying JSON, for searching documents and new indexing methods! The download and documentation (also here) is on http://labs.mysql.com/, the slides are below:

HTTP Plugin for MySQL! from Ulf Wendel

What a buzzword bingo! The HTTP Plugin is just a HTTP …

There are a lot of nice goodies in MySQL 5.7.5 already, but there are also some additional features that we are working on and would like to share  with you right now as well. For that we have done a couple of labs releases. In this post we will be referring to the labs release that contains enhanced multi-threaded slave applier and a refreshed version of multi-source replication.

We put these previews out there, among other things,  to get early feedback from you. This makes you a very relevant part of MySQL development, since you are in an unique position to influence our work by trying them out and commenting how good or bad was your experience or even just by pointing out things that you would like to improve.

Enhanced Timestamp-based Multi-Threaded Slave Applier.

A lot of time and …

The latest and greatest MySQL 5.7 development milestone release (DMR) is out (changelog). It is great to see such a strong and steady cadence of development releases.  The latest one, 5.7.5, is packed with awesome features. Let me highlight a few ones related to replication.

Storing Global Transaction Identifiers History in a system table.

MySQL 5.7.5 introduces a new replication system table that is used by the server to save global transaction identifiers (GTIDs) execution history. This means that the user can setup slaves without binary logs and still use GTIDs. Such slaves may not be candidates to replace the master in the event a fail-over needs to be done – they do not have the binary log enabled – but since they save GTID history means that they can auto position themselves in the replication …

Yes, there is a simple way to do this. Although it might not be so simple unless you know how to do it, so let me show you how this can be done. It's actually pretty cool. But I'll do this over a number of blog posts, and this is just an introductory blog, covering some of the core concepts and components.

But getting this to work wasn't easy, I had to try several things before I got it right, and it's not really obvious how you make it work at first, so this is a story along the lines of "If at first you don't succeed mr Kidd" "Try and try again, mr Wint" from my favorite villains in the Bond movie "Diamonds are forever":
So, I had an idea of how to achieve replication from Oracle to MySQL and I had an idea on how to implement it, and it was rather simple, so why not try it.

So, part 1 then. Oracle has the ability to let you add a UDF (User Defined Procedure) just like MariaDB (and MySQL), …

please let me know any english erro =] this's a draft about everything to be done with query cache (you can disable it too query_cache_type=0)

Again, a long long time ago...
This is a very old feature request at mysql (27 Oct 2006 12:31):
http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=23714

Well sometime ago... I reported how to select what query to cache and what query not to cache, using LOW/HIGH/OUTLIER cache hit counters with qc_info statistics and HAVE_QUERY_CACHE_STATS (MDEV-4682)
A problem that i didn't tracked is query cache lock time, since today we don't have a measure about query cache lock time we can't check this easily, but there's a MDEV-6766 at mariadb and we will track it soon


Let's resume some ideas...
we will talk about:
1)query cache and engine
2)query cache invalidation
…

All eyes are on the Oracle Open World. Thousands of sessions, demos, and labs topped up with the countless networking opportunities, Moscone Center is the place to be.

Oracle:

Oracle OpenWorld 2014 – Bloggers Meetup.

Query to show sql_ids related to SQL Profiles.

Oracle OpenWorld is nearly upon us and the agenda is packed with interesting sessions. Prominent among these are several sessions by customers who are able to share their stories of success with Oracle Multitenant.

The biggest challenge for people coming to such huge events as Oracle …

The media train is in full steam today over the the CVE-2014-6271 programming flaw, better known as the “Bash Bug” or “Shellshock” – the original problem was disclosed on Wednesday via this post. Firstly this issue exploits bash environment variables in order to execute arbitrary commands; a simple check for this per the Red Hat security blog is the following:

env x='() { :;}; echo vulnerable’ bash -c “echo this is a test”

If you see an error:

bash: warning: x: ignoring function definition attempt
bash: error importing function definition for `x’

Today MySQL is officially joining the GitHub community, with the launch of a beta GitHub repo for MySQL Server. Why We’re Doing It GitHub has become the place to be for successful open source projects; it has a large and rapidly growing user base, it is robust and fast, and it provides excellent tools for building and supporting vibrant open source […]

In addition to the recently announced 5.7.5 DMR, I am happy to draw your attention to some of our work-in-progress. This work has not yet reached production quality, but we want to share it with you in the form of four Labs releases being made available for MySQL Central @ OpenWorld 2014.

New Data Dictionary

We are excited to demonstrate the new Data Dictionary! With this labs release you will be able to run MySQL with the new Data Dictionary in action. MySQL meta-data has been consolidated in a common database schema and stored within transactional, crash-safe, InnoDB tables. Information Schema is also now implemented as standard SQL VIEWs on these tables, …