The MySQL Utilities Team is pleased to announce the general availability (GA) release of MySQL Utilities. This release includes a number of improvements for useabilty, stability, and a few enhancements. A complete list of all improvements can be found in our release_notes.
New Enhancements! This release represents a stable release of the product. Along with several defect patches, we also include the following enhancements.

• The mysqlserverclone utility now checks diskspace as a prerequisite to cloning the server.
• The --force option was removed from the mysqlfailover utility to remove confusion on its purpose.
• A warning is issued if the mysqld --skip-innodb option is used because this option is ignored in MySQL 5.7 and later.
• Utilities can correctly parse and display the PROXY …

Are you attending Oracle Open World? Would you like to know more about Oracle DevOps products for managing your MySQL servers? If so, stop by Tuesday, September 30 at 10:15 in the Hotel Nikko - Bay View and join us for a hands on lab (HOL9234) for MySQL Utilities and Connector/Python.

We will present the basics for getting started using Python to manage your MySQL servers. MySQL Utilities includes utilities for a wide variety of operations from displaying GRANT statements to setting up automatic failover for replication.

Check out the abstract for the HOL here.

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Last week we released Connector/Python v2.0 (alpha); today we publish the source on GitHub. Yes, we are using Git internally and are now able to push it out on each release. Previous versions are still available through LaunchPad.

Here is the full process to get Connector/Python installed in a virtual environment. You’ll need Git installed of course.

shell> git clone https://github.com/oracle/mysql-connector-python.git cpy
shell> virtualenv ENVCPY
shell> source ENVCPY/bin/activate
(ENVCPY)shell> cd cpy
(ENVCPY)shell> python setup.py install
(ENVCPY)shell> python
>>> import mysql.connector
>>> mysql.connector.__version__ …

A new major version of Connector/Python is available: v2.0.0 alpha has been been released and is available for download! As with any alpha-software, it’s probably not good to throw it in production just yet.

Our manual has the full change log but here’s an overview of most important changes for this relase.

Some incompatibilities

The world evolves, at least the software does, and Python is not different. I’m not as bold as the guys at Django who dropped support of Python v2.6 with the Django v1.7 release. I’m leaving it in because I’m nice.

Supported Python: 2.6 and 2.7 and 3.3 and 3.4

We do not …

There are a lot of holy wars between programming language advocates in the industry.

I use Python.

Why?

Because I have found that programs written in Python are significantly more likely to Work Correctly. They more often run correctly the first time, therefore I spend less time debugging.

There are lots of other reasons, but it's mainly the "It just works".

A few years ago, I had 10+ years of industry experience of Perl, but only 1 year of Python. I already found that my Python programs initially worked correctly FAR MORE OFTEN.

This is comparing a language that I'd been using commercially, most days, for 10 years, with something that I'd only just picked up.

That's why I use Python.

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Other stuff?

DEBUGGING: Stack traces. In Perl, it's possible to get a stack trace from an exception, but you …

MySQL Bugs On Dolphins, Panda's and Bugs

Like any good OpenSource project the MySQL Bugs website is open for anyone to search through. This ofcourse doesn't include the security bugs.

There is a second collection of bugs in the My Oracle Support and these bugs are only accesseble by customers with a support contract. Even when I have access to MOS I still prefer to use the community bugs site. For service requests etc. I would use MOS.

The openness of the bugs database is one of the topic the IOUG MySQL Council discusses with Oracle.

The bugs database has more to offer than just information about initial bugs:

• Bugs Statistics: This has a big matrix with …

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, …

As you might have noticed in the press release, we just released MySQL Utilities 1.4.3, containing MySQL Fabric, as a General Availability (GA) release. This concludes the first chapter of the MySQL Fabric story.

It all started with the idea that it should be as easy to manage and setup a distributed deployments with MySQL servers as it is to manage the MySQL servers themselves. We also noted that some of the features that were most interesting were sharding and high-availability. Since we also recognized that every user had different needs and needed to customize the solution, we set of to create a framework that would support sharding and high-availability, but also other solutions.

With the release of 1.4.3, we have a range of features that are now available to the community, and all under an open source license and wrapped in an …