Dear MySQL users,

The MySQL developer tools team announces 8.0.19 as our General Availability
(GA) for MySQL Workbench 8.0.

For the full list of changes in this revision, visit
https://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/workbench/en/news-8-0.html

For discussion, join the MySQL Workbench Forums:
http://forums.mysql.com/index.php?152

The release is now available in source and binary form for a number of
platforms from our download pages at:

http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/tools/workbench/

Enjoy!

A few days ago I wrote about how grossly outdated statistics returned through MySQL’s Information_Schema can be. In that post, Øystein Grøvlen suggested taking a look at mysql.innodb_table_stats and mysql.innodb_index_stats as a better source of information. Let’s do just that!

Let’s start with the good news. Unlike MySQL Data Dictionary Tables (mysql.table_stats, etc),  mysql.innodb_table_stats and mysql.innodb_index_stats can be queried by the user. They also contain a lot of interesting statistics. Before we get to that though, let’s examine where those tables come from in more detail.

As the manual tells us, these tables are storing …

Dear MySQL users,

MySQL Connector/NET 8.0.19 is the latest General Availability release of
the MySQL Connector/NET 8.0 series. This version supports .NET Core 3.0
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/index.html. 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 …

The MySQL Development Team is thrilled to announce a new 8.0 Maintenance Release of MySQL Shell AdminAPI – 8.0.19!

This release sets the bar higher, by introducing a new integrated solution based on a very well known Replication technology – MySQL InnoDB ReplicaSet!…

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During this webinar, we will review the MySQL 8.0 upgrade process. In this deep dive session, we will review the latest version of MySQL 8.0, discuss upgrade challenges, bugs, gotchas and how to successfully upgrade to MySQL 8.0.  Please join Percona Senior Technical Manager Alkin Tezuysal on Thursday, January 16th at 9 am EST for his webinar “How to Upgrade to MySQL 8 Like a Boss”.

View the Recording

If you can’t attend, sign up anyway and we’ll send you the slides and recording afterward.

Following MySQL InnoDB Cluster as our first, fully integrated MySQL High Availability solution based on Group Replication, MySQL Shell 8.0.19 includes MySQL InnoDB ReplicaSet which delivers another complete solution, this time based on MySQL Replication.

The basic idea for InnoDB ReplicaSet is to do the same for classic MySQL Replication as InnoDB Cluster did for Group Replication.…

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In this blog post series, we will discuss an overview of Vitess technology. Vitess is a database clustering solution for horizontal scaling of data sets currently suitable to 250Gb – 300Gb in sizes*. It’s a proven technology used by several web-scale companies including YouTube. PlanetScale is the company behind developing and supporting this open-sourced project. 

Introduction to Vitess 

Here’s high-level Vitess architecture visually explained. 

Ref: Sugu Sougoumarane presents an overview of Vitess at Highload in Moscow.

Basic Vitess Components

There are two main components of Vitess. One of them is vtgate which works as a query router where vttablet is a proxy to MySQL to serve the data. 

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Dear MySQL users,

MySQL Connector/Node.js is a new Node.js driver for use with the X
DevAPI. This release, v8.0.19, is a maintenance release of the
MySQL Connector/Node.js 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.

MySQL Connector/Node.js can be downloaded through npm (see
https://www.npmjs.com/package/@mysql/xdevapi for details) or from
https://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/nodejs/.

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

Dear MySQL users,

MySQL Connector/J 8.0.19 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-8-0-19.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 8.0.19 GA, see the “General Availability
(GA) Releases” tab at …

Dear MySQL users,

MySQL Connector/Python 8.0.19 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 …