This week marks the beginning of the second season of the Inside MySQL: Sakila Speaks podcast. This season will be all about the MySQL Community. Check out the latest episode, where Fred and Scott discuss how they each discovered MySQL and some of their favorite features.  

To further advance the MySQL Retrospective for the Advent Calendar in anticipation of the 30th Anniversary, today, let’s discuss the very first version of MySQL that became availble to a wide audient though the popular InfoMagic distribution: MySQL 3.20! In 1997, InfoMagic incorporated MySQL 3.20 as part of the RedHat Contrib CD-ROM (MySQL 3.20.25). Additionally, […]

For the 16th day of our Advent Calendar of Content, we bring you a summary of all the MySQL Blog posts that discuss handy features of MySQL Shell.

For the 15th day of our Advent Calendar of Content, we bring you a summary of all the MySQL Shorts that are focussed on how to use various SQL commands.

This post is a brief retrospective on MySQL certification over the years and versions.

Earlier this year, we published a series of blog posts focusing on MySQL Shell’s more helpful features. Here is a summary of each post. Sandboxes in MySQL Shell This feature allows you to spin up sandbox instances on your local machine quickly and easily. These instances can be used for various purposes, such as working […]

MySQL Shorts is a playlist on the MySQL YouTube channel dedicated to short form tutorials that focus on a single feature or solution to a problem. This video series covers a variety of different topics. For this post, we will sumamrize all the ‘Shorts’ that highlight various SQL commands. Episode 6 Episode 6 shows how to […]

For today’s retrospective post on the MySQL Advent Calendar 2024, we will examine the MySQL Certifications. MySQL AB released certifications in 2002 as you can see in the following announcement: For a long time, the two exams were proposed and maintained. I remember when I passed my first one, you first needed to validate the […]

In this series, “MySQL with Diagrams,” I’ll use diagrams to explain internals, architectures, and structures as detailed as possible. In basic terms, here’s how replication works: the transactions are written into a binary log on the source side, carried into the replica, and applied. The replica’s connection metadata repository contains information that the replication receiver […]

For the 12th day of our Advent Calendar of Content, we bring you a summary of all the MySQL Blog posts that discuss regular expressions and how they can be used in MySQL.