When I wrote the book MySQL Concurrency I included a Python module for MySQL Shell that would help reproducing the examples in the book. Since things change, it has been necessary to update the code. In this blog I will explain what the changes are which also give me a chance to say thanks to those that have submitted pull requests.

MySQL Concurrency

Version v1.1 was mostly about correcting the directory structure of the repository which was not as it was meant to be – and different from the instructions in the book. Additionally some files with code listings and images were missing. Finally, I added a check whether the set_current_schema() method is available for the session in the load() method. This check is needed as only the new X Protocol (the …

MySQL, an open source database developed by Oracle, powers some of Facebook’s most important workloads. We actively develop new features in MySQL to support our evolving requirements. These features change many different areas of MySQL, including client connectors, storage engine, optimizer, and replication. Each new major version of MySQL requires significant time and effort to migrate our workloads. The challenges  include:

• Porting our custom features to the new version
• Ensuring replication is compatible between the major versions
• Minimizing changes needed for existing application queries
• Fixing performance regressions that prevent the server from supporting our workloads

Our last major version upgrade, to MySQL 5.6, took more than a year to roll out. When version 5.7 was released, we were still in the …

With MySQL 8.0, the version of MySQL Database Service aka MDS, the default character set has changed from latin1 to ut8mb4. The default collation is utf8mb4_0900_ai_ci but what does that mean ? and why are the utf8mb4_0900_* the recommended ones ?

Collations like utf8mb4_unicode_520_ci and utf8mb4_0900_ai_ci are based on Unicode Collation Algorithm (UCA). The number in the collation defines the UCA version:

• UCA 9.0.0 (recommended)
  - example: utf8mb4_0900_ai_ci
• UCA 5.2.0 (not recommended, see problems below)
  - example: utf8mb4_unicode_520_ci

The …

With MySQL 8.0, the version of MySQL Database Service aka MDS, the default character set has changed from latin1 to ut8mb4. The default collation is utf8mb4_0900_ai_ci but what does that mean ? and why are the utf8mb4_0900_* the recommended ones ? Collations like utf8mb4_unicode_520_ci and utf8mb4_0...

MySQL Server 8.0.26 and 5.7.35, new versions of the popular Open Source Database Management System, have been released in conjunction with the 8.0.26 Connector and Component products. 

We are also pleased to announce the release of MySQL Cluster 8.0.26, the latest GA, along with 7.6.19, 7.5.23, 7.4.33. MySQL Cluster is the distributed, shared-nothing variant of MySQL. 

These releases are recommended for use on production systems and are available in source and binary form for a number of platforms from our MySQL Community download pages at:

https://dev.mysql.com/downloads/

Windows packages are available via the Installer for Windows or .ZIP (no-install) packages for more advanced needs. The point and click configuration wizards and all MySQL products are …

MySQL Server 8.0.26 and 5.7.35, new versions of the popular Open Source Database Management System, have been released in conjunction with the 8.0.26 Connector and Component products. We are also pleased to announce the release of MySQL Cluster 8.0.26, the latest GA, along with 7.6.19, 7.5.23, 7.4.3...

    Pandas is a Python software library for data analysis and manipulation.  It allows you to import data from CSV files, SQL, and Excel.  And it is open source.

    Pandas works well with the MySQL Shell.  After installing Pandas with pip install pandas on my Fedora test system, I was able to load Pandas.  The documentation is excellent at pandas.pydata.org   and I was quickly able to get one of their examples working from within mysqlsh.

Did I mention SQL as a source of data? Reading from MySQL is very easy.  

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You may have noticed that MySQL 8.0.26 was released today (yea!)  and I recommend reading the release notes but here are some of the highlights.

• TLS version 1 and 1.1 are deprecated. Please use later versions such as 1.2 and 1.3 (you made need OpenSSL 1.1.1 or higher too).
• More information in the server log on client timeouts includes the timeout value, and client user and host when that information is available
• Internal functions to copy values between columns are improved and test at about11% faster (YMMV)

There are a lot of interesting bits of information in the release notes and they show the amount of work that the MySQL Engineering Teams put into a release to give you a better product.
But What Are Those Warnings?

But some of you may be seeing the …

Following the announcement late last year that we’d made our flagship product Tungsten Cluster available on the Amazon Marketplace in an easy-to-access and deploy AMI format, we published some useful resources in the past few months to help users getting started with Tungsten Clustering in the AWS cloud.

Tags: amazon awstungsten cluster amiCloudcloudformation

We might have had one of our largest, most well attended webinars in recent times, for both EMEA and North American timezones, and we thank you for attending. We had many good questions, and we realise that this is a popular topic, so expect to get more blog posts around this. It also helps us drive the development of Galera Manager further, to know what you want (a new release, is just around the corner).

The video recording  of the webinar is available and we encourage you to take a gander.

We did demo a 9-node Galera Cluster running across San Francisco, London and Singapore, and also discussed latency for local nodes, a local Galera Cluster, as well as what penalty you …