For Official MySQL Release Policy    https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/en/mysql-releases.html      At Oracle, we constantly look for ways to improve our products to better fit your needs. We are excited to introduce MySQL Innovation and Long-Term Supported releases, which is an important improvement in the MySQL versioning model. The patch releases of MySQL 5.7 and previous […]

Preface This blog begins by introducing an alternative and optional thread handling mechanism called MySQL Thread Pool, available in the MySQL Enterprise Edition. It then delves into the “Max Transaction Limit” feature that was added to MySQL Thread Pool in MySQL 8.0. The blog shows the recommended MySQL Thread pool configuration and proceeds to compare […]

Last year, in March 2022, our MySQL Operator for Kubernetes became Generally Available. Since then, several new features were added to our operator and along with the release of MySQL Server 8.0.32 comes a new release of our MySQL Operator for Kubernetes 8.0.32-2.0.8.  The goal of the MySQL Operator for Kubernetes is to provide an easy way […]

On January 17 2023, MySQL Server 8.0.32 was released. It is the latest release of our MySQL 8.0 General Availability Release. The new release introduces a few new features alongside with some deprecations, as well as bugfixes and security fixes. Let’s dive into some detail on these new features and changes MySQL Enterprise Optimizer mysql> […]

The MySQL Enterprise Tools Development Team is pleased to announce the maintenance release of MySQL Enterprise Monitor 8.0.14 is now available for download on the My Oracle Support (MOS) web site. It will also be available for download via the Oracle Software Delivery Cloud in a few days. If you are not familiar with MySQL Enterprise Monitor, it is […]

Securing a database includes securing sensitive items such as keys, passphrases, and more. Its important to protect from misuse by using cryptography and access controls to limit usage by only the components that use them or admins that require them.  MySQL Enterprise Keyring security component provides integrated Key Management with secure vaults.  Starting with MySQL Enterprise Edition 8.0.22, […]

MySQL Enterprise Data Masking and De-Identification hides sensitive information by replacing real values with substitutes in order to protect sensitive data while they are still look real and consistent.

The old adage that time is money does not give any hints about buying more time. A MySQL Enterprise subscription does allow you to purchase time. Your technical staff has to do more with less time than ever before and operational delays add up extremely quickly.  Having the right tools when things go critical means staff can do what they need to do, when they need to do it.

So how does MySQL Enterprise Edition buy you more time?

When things inevitably go wrong, searching for free answers to problems on web sites with many dubious or flat out wrong solutions is a waste of precious time.  Informational websites like are fine sources of general information for researching technical issues but not when mission critical services are degraded or down.  An online recommendation to do what very large Enterprise Company does may not make sense for your company if you are not …

The MySQL Enterprise Tools Development Team is pleased to announce the maintenance release of MySQL Enterprise Monitor 8.0.3 is now available for download on the My Oracle Support (MOS) web site. It will also be available for download via the Oracle Software Delivery Cloud in a few days.

If you are not familiar with MySQL Enterprise Monitor, it is the best-in-class tool for monitoring and management of your MySQL assets and is part of MySQL Enterprise Edition and MySQL Cluster Carrier Grade Edition subscriptions. You are invited to give it a try using our 30-day free customer trial. Go to http://www.mysql.com/trials, or contact Sales at http://www.mysql.com/about/contact. …

Recently our team was tasked to implement MySQL 8.0 in production for a client. While MySQL 8.0 is looking very promising and has a lot of cool new features and revamped old features, it’s still pretty young. The MySQL development team is working very hard on stabilizing the product but, reading the latest release notes for version 8.0.12, it is still very much a bugfix release and not something you will want to put in production immediately. Also, given the fact that a lot of tools such as Percona Xtrabackup do not support MySQL 8.0 yet, we were a bit reluctant to proceed with this idea. But … the client had a strong use case to make use of roles and resource groups and we like challenges so we decided to give it a go.

Another use case that was presented is the one where …