In TokuMX 1.5 that is right around the corner, the big feature will be partitioned collections. This feature is similar to partitioned tables in Oracle, MySQL, SQL Server, and Postgres. A question many have is “why should I use partitioned tables?” In short, it’s complicated. The answer depends on your workload, your schema, and your database of choice. For example, this Oracle related post states “Anyone with un-partitioned databases over 500 gigabytes is courting disaster.” That’s not true for TokuDB or TokuMX. Nevertheless, partitioned tables are valuable; it’s why we …

Another MySQL User Group meeting called "MySQL User Camp-Bangalore" is announced for Jun 20 in Bangalore, India!! Please find more details below:

• Date and time: June 20, 2014 at 3PM IST
• Place: Bangalore, Kalyani Magnum campus
• Registration: Registration is needed, please contact mysql.bangalore@gmail.com
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Agenda:

• MySQL 5.7 New Features and NoSQL support in MySQL
• Sharding as implemented in MySQL Fabric
• Open discussion with MySQL developers

We are looking forward to seeing you on Jun 20!!

And now we return to our previously-scheduled blog series "Docker: Containers for the Masses". To bring the reader up to speed with what episodes have already aired:

• Introduction -- this episode introduced the reader to the storyline and characters: what are containers, how they work containers vs. virtual machines, what is Docker.
• Installation -- this episode featured information about installing Docker

In today's episode, the real excitement begins with actually using …

As an update to the previous announcement from Mar 25, 2014 please find below the updated list of events where MySQL Community team is attending and/or supporting. This time you can find not only EMEA & APAC ones but also conferences & events we are covering in the US & Canada. You are invited to meet our engineers at the events below.  

EMEA 

• NEW!! BGOUG, Sandanski, Bulgaria, June 13, 2014
  •  Georgi Kodinov will attend and speak at this local Oracle User Group event. Feel free to come.
• PHP Tour Lyon, Lyon, France, June 23-24, 2014
  • MySQL team is …

#DBHangOps 06/12/14 -- MySQL Credential management and Gaps

Check out the recording below!

Hello everybody!

Join in #DBHangOps this Thursday, June, 12, 2014 at 11:00am pacific (18:00 GMT), to participate in the discussion about:

• MySQL Credentials

  • How do you set them up?
  • How do you store them?
  • Who has access to them?

• Gaps -- When do you stop working on a specific task

  • How do you know when you've hit the "80/20" threshold?
  • What's a "sub-optimization"?
  • When are you "over-optimizing"?

  • When do you stop automating and accept manual process

    • What is important to automate in your environment?
    …

If you're like most of our customers, you're relying more than ever on data to determine and reach your audience. That mountain of data is not cheap or easy to keep and analyze.

That is where we enter. Outlined below are five reasons the VividCortex cloud-based software will benefit your entire organization, from the database administrator to the analyst to the customer. Our NINJA approach will:

N egate noise. The amount of data entering systems is overwhelming, even when using charts and graphs. Not only do we house data on the level of 1-second granularity, we do so in a manner that charts real-time performance and enables faster diagnosis.

I ncrease profitability through minimizing monitoring time. From an installation process of seconds to features such as query performance tracking, we emphasize efficiency. Instead of spending approximately 25% of their time maintaining internal …

The architecture of MySQL-powered applications is one of my favorite topics to talk about. It’s a very important topic because if you do not get the architecture right then you’re very likely to fail with your project – either from the standpoint of failing with performance, high availability or security requirements… or failing to deliver on time and at the planned cost.

It’s also a great topic because there is so much knowledge available these days about MySQL-powered applications. MySQL has been around for a rather long time compared with many other solutions – and now we know what architectures have enabled people to build successful MySQL-powered applications and grow them to hundreds of millions of users as well as what applications did not work out.

This level of maturity really allows us to essentially take “off-the-shelf” MySQL architectures that can be used to build very …

A few weeks ago MySQL Fabric got GA and shipped together with MySQL Utilities 1.4. Today, 2 weeks late, a tooth less and having fixed my website(s), I can blog about MySQL Connector/Python v1.2 going GA.

My previous post about the release candidate already summed up the important changes, and nothing changed since then except few bug fixes. Here are again the important new features/bugs fixed for Connector/Python v1.2:

• Added support for MySQL Fabric.
• Support for MySQL’s Authentication Plugins: mysql_clear_password and sha256_password are now supported over an SSL connection.
• Failing over connections (note: not MySQL Fabric HA)

Of course, …

The MariaDB project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of MariaDB 5.5.38. This is a Stable (GA) release.

See the Release Notes and Changelog for detailed information on this release and the What is MariaDB 5.5? page in the MariaDB Knowledge Base for general information about the MariaDB 5.5 series.

Download MariaDB 5.5.38

Release Notes Changelog …

The MySQL Windows Experience Team is proud to announce the release of MySQL for Excel version 1.3.0.  This is a beta release for 1.3.x.

As this is a beta version the MySQL for Excel product can be downloaded only by using the product standalone installer at this link: http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/windows/excel/

Your feedback on this beta version is very well appreciated, you can raise bugs on the MySQL bugs page or give us your comments on the MySQL for Excel forum.