Dear Community,

Today we are pleased to announce the release 10 of Percona Server with XtraDB storage engine.

Since the previous release 9.1 there are following changes

• MySQL 5.1.45 as a basis for the release
• I_S SYS_TABLES
• New patch page_size_and_expand_log. It allows to change InnoDB pages size to 4K or 8K. Also InnoDB log files now can be bigger 4G
• New patch innodb-fast-checksum. It adds new faster checksum algorithm used in InnoDB tables
• New supported platforts are added. The full list includes (karmic is new):
  • CentOS 5 (x86_64 and i386)
  • CenOS 4 (x86_64 and i386)
  • Debian lenny (x86_64 and i386)
  • Debian etch (x86_64 and i386)
  • Ubuntu Karmic  (x86_64 and i386)
  • Ubuntu Jaunty (x86_64 and i386)
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600 new customers for SugarCRM. James Gosling leaves Oracle. And more.

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# SugarCRM added nearly 600 customers in the first quarter of 2010.

# James Gosling resigned from Oracle.

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# EnterpriseDB hired Sun’s former MySQL VP Karen Tegan Padir as vice president of products and marketing.

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We’re proud to announce Beta 8 of MySQL Workbench 5.2.
Since beta 7 we have fixed additional bugs as well as put in some improvements requested by the community so we decided to pack up another release for you to check out. This Beta includes fixes for 35 bugs (P1 – 1, P2 – 10 , P3 – 24)

Also we have added new HUD-style (FADE IN) UI elements to show wait-times while WB is setting up connections (currentlz windows only, will be added to linux/mac in next release).

Additionally we have added Connection-/Instance-sorting, now you can go to the connection/instance manager and sort using up/down buttons.

For more on these new features check out http://wb.mysql.com

A big “thank you” to all the people who have been testing MySQL Workbench 5.2 alphas and betas and taking the time to file bugs and provide valuable feedback. We have fixed many bugs since last release and worked on some other details as …

Everybody at the MySQL Conference & Expo 2010 who is interested in MySQL Workbench, please feel free to join me for an in-depth presentation about the current MySQL Workbench 5.2 product and future plans. Looking forward to see you there!

Follow this link to the Conference Schedule for time and coordinates.

For everybody who could not joins us at the MySQL Conference & Expo this year I have uploaded the slides below. I included a lot of tips & tricks in the presentation. So even if you are not able to see the live demo, taking a look at the slides might still be a good idea.

MySQL_Conference2010_MySQL_Workbench_V3.pdf

Enjoy!

Dear Community,

The notice is hereby given that next version 1.2 of XtraBackup software is released.

The list of changes in this version includes:
Changelog:

• XtraBackup supports now XtraDB 10
• tar4ibd supports variable page size and fast_checksum of XtraDB
• Supported 32bit platform for Centos 5, Centos 4, Debian lenny and etch, Ubuntu Karmic, Jaunty, Intrepid, Hardy, FreeBSD

Fixeb bugs in this release:

• Bug #550776: "--use-memory" is not used at InnoDB-Plugin based version

The binary packages for as well as source code of the XtraBackup is available on http://www.percona.com/percona-builds/XtraBackup/XtraBackup-1.2/.

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MySQL Cluster 7.1 has been declared GA – including MySQL Cluster Connector for Java and MySQL Cluster Manager – see http://www.mysql.com/products/database/cluster/ for details.

MySQL 5.5 Highlights - It's a lot faster! InnoDB

Multiple Buffer Pool Instances Multiple Rollback Segments Extended change buffering and purge scheduling Improved Log Sys and Flush List mutex Improved locking Improved statistics on InnoDB mutexes, rw-locks, threads and I/O operations.

Improved performance/scale with Win32, 64 Scales to 32 cores  Semi-synchronoous replication Performance

In the old days, before SQL and Relational and all that, not when Vikings toured the world, drinking, being violent and causing mayhem, but still in the old days, the databases in use, the first reasonably generic database systems, were Hierarchical or Network based. These had a strict schema and data was extracted by navigation (i.e. Find company X, find orders for company X, find items etc.), and there was no way of searching data (which wasn't much of a problem, as data was largely stored on tape anyway, which isn't really searchable in the now common sense).

When SQL came around, the relations style schema allowed a much more free way of navigating data, and it also allowed searching. The SQL search as we know it is still contextual (i.e. you have to specify what to search, a SELECT from a customer table based on address, will not retrieve employees with a matching address). All the same, when SQL came around, the ability to search …

The end of the killer feature by Scott Berkun. Scott will be speaking at WordCamp San Francisco 2010.

Edward Screven – Chief Corporate Architect of Oracle provided the opening keynote at the 2010 MySQL Users Conference.

Overall I was disappointed. The first half was more an Oracle Sales pitch, we had some product announcements, we had some 5.5 performance buzz. While a few numbers and features were indeed great to hear, there was a clear lack of information to the MySQL ecosystem including employees, alumni and various support services. I hope more is unveiled this week.

Some notes of the session.

• Oracle’s Strategy covers storage, servers, virtual machines, operating system, database, middleware, applications
• We build a complete technology stack that is “open” and “integrated” based on “open standards”
• products talk via open standards with the intention for customers to not feel locked in to any technology
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