There was a time when tag-clouds were the thing for website owners to fancy oneself. These clouds are mostly gone, but seen from the perspective of how to implement such a thing, one can learn quite a lot, especially with large amounts of links. Anyway, imagine you publish some articles on your website, which are stored in a table "post" and you want to to add tags to every post in order to print a tag-cloud.

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There was a time when tag-clouds were the thing for website owners to fancy oneself. These clouds are mostly gone, but seen from the perspective of how to implement such a thing, one can learn quite a lot, especially with large amounts of links. Anyway, imagine you publish some articles on your website, which are stored in a table "post" and you want to to add tags to every post in order to print a tag-cloud.

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Percona announces the release of Percona Server 5.5.50-38.0 on July 8, 2016. Based on MySQL 5.5.50, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server 5.5.50-38.0 is now the current stable release in the 5.5 series.

Percona Server is open-source and free. Details of the release can be found in the 5.5.50-38.0 milestone on Launchpad. Downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories.

New Features: …

Percona announces the release of Percona XtraBackup 2.3.5 on July 8, 2016. Downloads are available from our download site or Percona Software Repositories.

Percona XtraBackup enables MySQL backups without blocking user queries, making it ideal for companies with large data sets and mission-critical applications that cannot tolerate long periods of downtime. Offered free as an open source solution, Percona XtraBackup drives down backup costs while providing unique features for MySQL backups.

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MySQL sys version 1.5.1 has just been released.

This is a purely bug fix release, and has been merged in to the upcoming MySQL 5.7.14 release.

Here’s a full summary of the changes:

Improvements

• A quote_identifier function was added, which can be used to properly backtick identifier names
• The `Tls_version` column was added to the output from the `mysql.slave_master_info` table, from the `diagnostics` procedure (backported from 5.7 upstream change)

Bug Fixes

• MySQL Bug #77853 / Oracle Bug #21512106 – The `format_path` function did not consider directory boundaries when comparing variables to paths – it now does. Also fixed to no longer translate …

In this post we are going to explain how to connect a Node.js application to a MySQL server using the new MySQL Connector/Node.js; needless to say that we will be using the MySQL server as a document store.

There are two types of session that a connection can provide: XSession and NodeSession.
An XSession encapsulates access to a single MySQL server running the X Plugin or
multiple MySQL Cluster nodes; and the NodeSession serves as an abstraction for a physical connection to exactly one MySQL server running the X Plugin. To enable the XPlugin in the MySQL server using the MySQL Client command line you need to use the root account or an account with INSERT privilege to mysql.plugin table:

• Invoke the MySQL command-line client: mysql -u user –p
• Run the following command: INSTALL PLUGIN mysqlx SONAME …

Percona announces the release of Percona Server 5.6.31-77.0 on July 7th, 2016. Download the latest version from the Percona web site or the Percona Software Repositories.

Based on MySQL 5.6.31, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server 5.6.31-77.0 is the current GA release in the Percona Server 5.6 series. Percona Server is open-source and free …

In this blog post, we’ll look at pipelining versus parallel query execution when using X Plugin for MySQL 5.7.

In my previous blog post, I showed how to use X Plugin for MySQL 5.7 for parallel query execution. The tricks I used to make it work:

• Partitioning by hash
• Open N connections to MySQL, where N = number of CPU cores

I had to do it manually (as well as to sort the result at the end) as X Plugin only supports “pipelining” (which only saves the round trip time) and does not “multiplex” connections …

Percona announces the GA release of Percona Server 5.7.13-6 on July 6, 2016. Download the latest version from the Percona web site or from the Percona Software Repositories.

Based on MySQL 5.7.13, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server 5.7.13-6 is the current GA release in the Percona Server 5.7 series. Percona’s provides completely open-source and free software. All the details of the release can be found in the …

If you haven’t heard the news yet, MySQL 8.0 is apparently the next release of the world-famous database server.

Obviously abandoning plans to name the next release 5.8, Percona Server’s upstream provider relabelled all 5.8-related bugs to 8.0 as follows:

Reported version value updated to reflect release name change from 5.8 to 8.0

What will MySQL 8.0 bring to the world?

While lossless RBR has been suggested by Simon Mudd (for example), the actual feature list (except a Boost 1.60.0 upgrade!) remains a secret.

As far as bug and feature requests go, a smart google query revealed which bugs are likely …