During many decision-making phases in programming code (conditional logic), there are times execution depends on several different factors. Multiple conditional tests are powerful and constraining, oftentimes requiring more than one test to be passed in order for program flow to proceed. For MySQL (and standard SQL in general) the CASE expression is used for IF/THEN/ELSE conditional logic. The post, MySQL Simple CASE Expression – with examples, covered Simple CASE queries which are essentially equality tests. MySQL Simple CASE is but one variant of 2, with the other being a MySQL Searched CASE Expression.  A MySQL Searched CASE Expression can have multiple conditional tests in each WHEN …

We are pleased to announce the release of MySQL Cluster 8.0.25. MySQL Cluster is the distributed, shared-nothing variant of MySQL. This storage engine provides: In-Memory storage – Real-time performance (with optional checkpointing to disk) Transparent Auto-Sharding – Read & write scalability Active-Active/Multi-Master geographic replication 99.999% High Availability with no single point of failure and on-line […]

Magento is an Open-Source e-commerce platform written in PHP using multiple other PHP frameworks such as Laminas and Symphony. Magento source code is distributed under Open Software License v3.0.

Deploying Magento is not always easy as it often requires registration. However the source code is also availble on GitHub.

Magento supports MySQL 8.0 since version 2.4.0 (July 28th 2020).

In Magento’s documentation, there is a warning about GTID support:

This is not anymore a …

Dear MySQL users,

MySQL Connector/NET 8.0.25 is the latest General Availability release
of the MySQL Connector/NET 8.0 series. This version supports .NET 5.0
and the X DevAPI, which enables application developers to write code
that combines the strengths of the relational and document models
using a modern, NoSQL-like syntax that does not assume previous
experience writing traditional SQL.

To learn more about how to write applications using the X DevAPI, see

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/x-devapi-userguide/en/

For more information about how the X DevAPI is implemented in
Connector/NET, see

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/dev/connector-net

NuGet packages provide functionality at a project level. To get the
…

Data Analytics is important in any company as you can see what happened in the past to be able to make smart decisions or even predict future actions using the existing data.

Analyze a huge amount of data could be hard and you should need to use more than one database engine, to handle OLTP and OLAP workloads. In this blog, we will see what is HeatWave, and how it can help you on this task.

What is HeatWave?

HeatWave is a new integrated engine for MySQL Database Service in the Cloud. It is a distributed, scalable, shared-nothing, in-memory, columnar, query processing engine designed for fast execution of analytic queries. According to the official documentation, it accelerates MySQL performance by 400X for analytics queries, scales out to thousands of cores, and is 2.7X faster at around one-third the cost of the direct competitors. MySQL Database Service, with HeatWave, is the only service for running OLTP and OLAP …

MySQL Server 8.0.25, a new version of the popular Open Source Database Management System, has been released. This release is recommended for use on production systems. For an overview of what’s new, please see http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/mysql-nutshell.html For information on installing the release on new servers, please see the MySQL installation documentation at http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/installing.html This server release […]

Dear MySQL users,

MySQL Connector/J 8.0.25 is the latest General Availability release of the
MySQL Connector/J 8.0 series.  It is suitable for use with MySQL Server
versions 8.0, 5.7, and 5.6.  It supports the Java Database Connectivity (JDBC)
4.2 API, and implements the X DevAPI.

This release includes the following new features and changes, also described in
more detail on

https://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/connector-j/8.0/en/news-8-0-25.html

As always, we recommend that you check the “CHANGES” file in the download
archive to be aware of changes in behavior that might affect your application.

To download MySQL Connector/J 8.0.25 GA, see the “General Availability (GA)
Releases” tab at  …

Dear MySQL users,

MySQL Connector/Python 8.0.25 is the latest GA release version of the
MySQL Connector Python 8.0 series. The X DevAPI enables application
developers to write code that combines the strengths of the relational
and document models using a modern, NoSQL-like syntax that does not
assume previous experience writing traditional SQL.

To learn more about how to write applications using the X DevAPI, see

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/x-devapi-userguide/en/

For more information about how the X DevAPI is implemented in MySQL
Connector/Python, and its usage, see

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/dev/connector-python

Please note that the X DevAPI requires at least MySQL Server …

Dear MySQL users,

MySQL Connector/ODBC 8.0.25 is a new version in the MySQL Connector/ODBC
8.0 series, the ODBC driver for the MySQL Server.

The available downloads include both a Unicode driver and an ANSI driver
based on the same modern codebase. Please select the driver type you
need based on the type of your application – Unicode or ANSI.
Server-side prepared statements are enabled by default. It is suitable
for use with the latest MySQL server version 8.0.

This release of the MySQL ODBC driver is conforming to the ODBC 3.8
specification. It contains implementations of key 3.8 features,
including self-identification as a ODBC 3.8 driver, streaming of out (for
binary types only), and support of the SQL_ATTR_RESET_CONNECTION
connection attribute (for the Unicode driver only).

The release is now available in source and binary form for a number …

Dear MySQL users,

MySQL Connector/C++ 8.0.25 is a new release version of the MySQL
Connector/C++ 8.0 series.

Connector/C++ 8.0 can be used to access MySQL implementing Document
Store or in a traditional way, using SQL queries. It allows writing
both C++ and plain C applications using X DevAPI and X DevAPI for C.
It also supports the legacy API of Connector/C++ 1.1 based on JDBC4.

To learn more about how to write applications using X DevAPI, see
“X DevAPI User Guide” at

https://dev.mysql.com/doc/x-devapi-userguide/en/

See also “X DevAPI Reference” at

https://dev.mysql.com/doc/dev/connector-cpp/devapi_ref.html

and “X DevAPI for C …