From June 16th to 17th, the MySQL Team will be attending and speaking at the Hong Kong Open Source Conference 2018.

Unfortunately I won’t be present but some of my great colleagues will be speaking about MySQL.

If you are planning to attend HKOSCon2018, don’t miss their talks:

• Heading to the New Stage of MySQL 8.0 – Ivan Ma
• Crossing Relation and Document Database using …

Today the call for participation for Oracle Open World 2018 has started.

The 2018’s edition will take place in San Francisco as usual, from October 22nd to 25th.

As every year, MySQL will be present and if you want to participate, we encourage you to submit a session. We encourage the submission on the following topics:

• case studies / user stories of your use of MySQL
• lessons learned in running web scale MySQL
• Production DBA/DevOps perspectives into Architecture, Performance, Replication, InnoDB, Security, etc

The call for paper is open until March 22nd, don’t miss the chance to be part …

MySQL 8.0 RC2 has just been released with a lot of new features compared to MySQL 5.7. In this blog post, I will list the top 10 new features that should excite developers.

These functionalities are presented in descending order of preference of our MySQL Community.

TOP 10

1. MySQL Document Store
2. Default to utf8mb4
3. JSON enhancements
4. CTEs
5. Window Functions
6. Descending Indexes
7. Better Optimizer Cost Model
8. MySQL Server Components
9. Improvement in GIS
10. InnoDB NO WAIT & SKIP LOCKED

MySQL Document Store

This is the most expected and liked feature in MySQL 8.0 … and it’s …

From September 25th to 27th 2017, the MySQL engineers and community team will be speaking at Percona Live Europe in Dublin.

MySQL is also part of the contributing sponsors.

For the conference, we tried to bring new faces to the Community. Usually, it’s always the same famous team leaders speaking at the conferences, this time, it’s not. A lot of key developers will present their own work. We have so much talented people in MySQL we want to present to our community.

Of course, once again we will focus our talks on MySQL 8.0. This is the list of sessions the MySQL Team will deliver:

Monday, Sep 25th

On Monday, I will deliver a tutorial with my friend …

Embedding Structured Query Language (SQL) within PHP, or other programming languages, has been problematic for some. Mixing two programming languages together is just plainly not aesthetically pleasing. Especially when you have a declarative language (SQL) mixed with a procedural-object oriented language. But now, with the MySQL XDevAPI PECL extension, PHP developers can now stop mixing the two languages together together. MySQL Document StoreThe MySQL Document Store eliminates the heavy burden for SQL skills. It is designed to be a high speed, schema-less data store and is based on the MySQL JSON data type. This gives you roughly a gigabyte of store in a document format to do with as needed. So you do not need to architect you data before hand when you have no idea how it will evolve. No need to normalize your data. Now behind the scenes …

I am starting a series of videos on the MySQL Document Store. The Document Store allows those who do not know Structured Query Language (SQL) to use a database without having to know the basics of relational databases, set theory, or data normalization. The goal is to have sort 2-3 minute episodes on the various facets of the Document Store including the basics, using various programming languages (Node.JS, PHP, Python), and materializing free form schemaless, NoSQL data into columns for use with SQL.

The first Episode, Introduction, can be found here.

Please provide feedback and let me know if there are subjects you would want covered in the near future.

Last Thursday, I was introducing MySQL Document Store in Ghent, BE at Percona University.

I was explaining how great is this technology and how MySQL can replace your NoSQL database but still provides you all the benefits from a RDBMS.

This is the full presentation:

Introduction to MySQL Document Store from Frederic Descamps

Then somebody came with a nice question. Let me put first some context:

• we will create a collection to add people in it
• we will create a virtual column on the age
• we will index that column
• we will query and add records to that collection

Collection creation and add some users

mysql-js> schema = …

In this blog post, we’ll look at what MySQL does under the hood to transform NoSQL requests to SQL (and then store them in InnoDB transactional engine) when using the X Plugin.

X Plugin allows MySQL to function as a document store. We don’t need to define any schema or use SQL language while still being a fully ACID database. Sounds like magic – but we know the only thing that magic does is make planes fly!

Alexander already wrote a blog post exploring how the X Plugin works, with some examples. In this post, I am going to show some more query examples and how they are transformed.

I have enabled the slow query …

In this blog, I will provide answers to the Q & A for the “Introduction into storage engine troubleshooting” webinar.

First, I want to thank everybody for attending the July 14 webinar. The recording and slides for the webinar are available here. Below is the list of your questions that I wasn’t able to answer during the webinar, with responses:

Q: At which isolation level do 

pt-online-schema-change

 and 

pt-archive

  copy data from a table?

A: Both tools do not change the server’s default transaction isolation level. Use either

REPEATABLE READ

 or set …

In this blog post, I’ll discuss how to use MySQL 5.7 Document Store to track data from Internet of Things (IoT) devices.

Using JSON in MySQL 5.7

In my previous blog post, I’ve looked into MySQL 5.7.12 Document Store. This is a brand new feature in MySQL 5.7, and many people are asking when do I need or want to use the JSON or Document Store interface?

Storing data in JSON may be quite useful in some cases, for example:

• You already have a JSON (i.e., from external feeds) and need to store it anyway. Using the JSON datatype will be more convenient and more efficient.
• For the Internet of Things, specifically, when storing events from …