The MySQL Server Team has announced the General Availability of MySQL 8.0. You can download it here. Quoting their blog post, some key enhancements include:

SQL Window functions, Common Table Expressions, NOWAIT and SKIP LOCKED, Descending Indexes, Grouping, Regular Expressions, Character Sets, Cost Model, and Histograms.

JSON Extended syntax, new functions, improved sorting, and partial

Well here we go another MySQL conference / Percona Live.

Another huge and important event/milestone for the MySQL community. 

But this time I will not be there.

First time in many years I had to decline, drop my speech and say... "No I am so sorry, this time I cannot come".

Was not an easy choice, not only because I am always excited to meet old colleagues, but also because PLSC is a great moment for brainstorming and to identify what could be good to push-on or to investigate better.

Especially this year where we have so many different interesting topics and so many different technologies as well. 

And of course the MySQL 8 GA will make a huge wave, but that was expected. To be honest what I am more interested to see is... what the real adoption of it will means. In Percona, we are working to be able to have it's adoption to happen as smoother as possible.

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I am now in an airport, waiting for one of the four flights that will bring me to Percona Live Santa Clara 2018.  This is a good time to write some details about my tutorial on parallel replication.  But before talking about Percona Live, I will share thoughts on MySQL/MariaDB bugs that caught my attention in the last weeks/months (Valeriy: you clearly have an influence on me).

MySQL/MariaDB

It is a great today for whole MySQL community: MySQL 8.0 was just released as GA!

Geir Høydalsvik has a great summary in his “What’s New in MySQL 8.0” blog post. You can find additional information about MySQL 8.0 Replication and MySQL 8.0 Document Store that is also worth reading.

If you can’t wait to upgrade to MySQL 8.0, please make sure to read the  …

It is with extreme delight and a big smile on our face that we share the news that a new major MySQL release has been declared Generally Available (GA). The road to MySQL 8 was pretty eventful, sometimes painful and sometimes hard, always challenging, but nonetheless a great ride and an extremely rewarding journey for the engineers that have worked on it.…

The MySQL Connector/Python Team is pleased to announce MySQL Connector/Python 8.0.11, the first GA 8.0 release series of the official MySQL driver for Python. This release introduces the first Python driver that adds full MySQL 8.0 support.

Document Store

MySQL 8.0 includes many improvements and new features, with Document Store being the biggest.

MySQL Document Store is schema-less with a flexible data structure storage system for documents. This removes the requirement for schema design, normalization, foreign keys, constrains, and data types.

The Document Store is accessible by the X DevAPI, an API that introduces a new modern and easy-to-learn way to …

MySQL 8.0 is now finally GA, bringing into play the powerful Document Store set of feature along with Connectors for many of the most popular languages! Also PHP is coming with it’s own extension designed to support all of the new exciting feature coming with this latest MySQL milestone.

The complete web documentation for the MySQL X DevAPI Extension for PHP is available here.

About Document Store.

The X DevAPI for PHP is an extension which allows the user to access MySQL with installed the X Plugin as a document store via the X DevAPI and the related underlying protocol.

A …

General information about MySQL Connector/ODBC 8.0:

MySQL Connector/ODBC 8.0 is a successor of the Connector/ODBC 5.3 line.
The Connector/ODBC driver 8.0 becomes available starting from the version 8.0.11.

Where is 8.0.10? The family of MySQL products is growing and with so many products and different versions it is easy to get confused about functionality and product compatibility. Therefore, we decided to unify the versioning and synchronize the version numbers across all MySQL products. The current GA version of MySQL Server is 8.0.11 and the family of MySQL Connectors including Connector/ODBC has been aligned with the new versioning model and became 8.0.11 too. This will ensure that Connector/ODBC 8.0.11 can work with MySQL Server 8.0.11.

Among bug fixes and internal improvements the Connector/ODBC 8.0.11 received the support for a new authentication methods introduced in MySQL Server 8.0. These new …

Members of the .NET and MySQL communities and anyone interested in the subject, we are glad to announce the release of Connector/NET 8.0.11. This is the first GA release in the 8.0 series and it comes with full support for MySQL 8.0 (also now a GA) including its main feature… the MySQL Document Store!

What is new in MySQL 8.0?

X Protocol / X Plugin

The X Protocol is a new, highly extensible protocol optimized for SQL and CRUD API operations. It is based on the popular open source protocol definition language and provides a common interface for connectors to communicate with MySQL server through the …

In this blog I’ll explain the big wins that come with the MySQL Document Store in the MySQL 8.0 GA.

Basically

SQL + NOSQL
= Winning Combination
= Relational + Document Store + Hybrid
= Big Win For Devs
= Big Win for DBAs
= Big Win for Data Analysts
= Big Win for LOB owners

First, let’s start by considering some modern software facts

• Move faster, change rapidly
• Time to market is critical
• Rapid prototyping, iterate fast and frequently
• Relational Models ask for schema up front
• Potentially saving time later
• Less variation, less code for edge cases
• Easy to run in-depth analytics
• Document Models do not ask for a schema
• Saves time up front
• Often adds operational costs in the long term
• Getting Analytics from the data can be way more work
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