The preFOSDEM MySQL Belgian Days 2025 will occur at the usual place (ICAB Incubator, Belgium, 1040 Bruxelles) on Thursday, January 30th, and Friday, January 31st, just before FOSDEM. Again this year, we will have the chance to have incredible sessions from our Community and the opportunity to meet some MySQL Engineers from Oracle. DimK will […]

Just before the end of the MySQL Advent Calendar, let me announce (or remind you) that MySQL will turn 30 next year!! The first version of MySQL was released in 1995, three decades ago. That database would become MySQL, the open-source relational database management system that has since transformed how developers build and scale applications. […]

Let’s stay a bit longer with MySQL 3.2x to advance the MySQL Retrospective in anticipation of the 30th Anniversary. The idea of this article was suggested to me by Daniël van Eeden. Did you know that in the early days, and therefore still in MySQL 3.20, MySQL used the ISAM storage format? IBM introduced the […]

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 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 […]

Did you know that in previous versions of MySQL there were some “hidden” functions that not many users knew about? One of them disappeared on the 16th of October 2012 with the release of 5.6.8rc. Did you find which one it was? SHOW AUTHORS SHOW AUTHORS was last present in 5.6.7rc and displayed a list […]

Last month we released MySQL 9.1, the latest Innovation Release. Of course, we released bug fixes for 8.0 and 8.4 LTS but in this post, I focus on the newest release. Within these releases, we included patches and code received by our amazing Community. Here is the list of contributions we processed and included in […]

As announced yesterday, the MySQL Devroom is back at FOSDEM! For people preparing for their travel to Belgium, we want to announce that the MySQL Belgian Days fringe event will be held on the Thursday and Friday before FOSDEM. This event will take place on January 30th and 31st, 2025, in Brussels at the usual […]

We are pleased to announce the Call for Participation (CfP) for the FOSDEM 2025 MySQL Devroom. The Devroom will be held on February 2 (Sunday), 2025 in Brussels, Belgium. The submission deadline for talk proposals is December 1, 2024. FOSDEM is a free event for software developers to meet, share ideas, and collaborate. Every year, […]

Stewardship of a community is easy for new and emerging technology. After 29 years, MySQL has become one of the most-used and trusted open-source databases by millions of users worldwide. Leadership of a community at this scale can be complex. We strive to find a balance of stability and innovation, provide a stable and predictable […]