Planning to attend Oracle Open World 2020 in London?  Make sure to:

• Visit our booth
• Join us at our evening reception
• Check out our MySQL sessions

MySQL Booth:

Located in Zone 4 , stop by to meet the MySQL EMEA team and learn the latest about MySQL from our local experts. 

MySQL Reception

Feb 12, 2020 - 6:00 PM - 11:00 PM
Tapa Tapa Warehouse K, Western Gateway ExCel West
London E16 1DR

Join us for a drink and a conversation on all things related to MySQL. Meet with Rich Mason, General Manager of the MySQL GBU and additional members from MySQL’s EMEA team for an open discussion.

Get face-to-face with MySQL executives, learn more about MySQL’s product strategy and mingle with peers and other MySQL …

We are pleased to announce the release of MySQL Cluster 8.0.19, a newGA, along with 7.6.13, 7.5.17, 7.4.27, and 7.3.28. MySQL Cluster is the distributed, shared-nothing variant of MySQL. This storage engine provides: In-Memory storage – Real-time performance (with optionalcheckpointing to disk) Transparent Auto-Sharding – Read & write scalability Active-Active/Multi-Master geographic replication 99.999% High Availability […]

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!

MySQL Server 8.0.19, 5.7.29 and 5.6.47, new versions of the popular Open Source Database Management System, have been released. These releases are recommended for use on production systems. For an overview of what’s new, please see http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/mysql-nutshell.html http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/mysql-nutshell.html http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/mysql-nutshell.html For information on installing the release on new servers, please see the MySQL installation documentation at […]

We are happy to announce that on Monday, Jan 13, 2020 there will be a meetup in Dubai on the "MySQL 8 - State of the Dolphin" topic. Please find details below:

• Name: MySQL User Group U.A.E meetup
• Topic: MySQL 8 - State of the Dolphin
• Date: Monday, January 13, 2020
• Time: 7pm - 10pm
• Place: Dubai Internet City
• Agenda:
  • Kenny Gryp from the MySQL Product Management Group talk about MySQL Database Architectures (MySQL InnoDB cluster)
  • Frederic (LeFred) Descamps from the MySQL Community team will talk about MySQL Shell (including NoSQL)
  • Mario Beck, Manager of MySQL Enterprise PreSales team & Chetan …

What a great way to start the New Year!  I woke up this morning to find in the news that MySQL won the DBMS of the year award for 2019.

“MySQL is the database management system that gained more popularity in our DB-Engines Ranking within the last year than any of the other 350 monitored systems.
We thus declare MySQL as the DBMS of the Year 2019”, says DB-Engine.

Getting the highest popularity gain among over 350 monitored systems is really impressive but this could only happen because of you, the users of MySQL.  Thank you all for your ongoing support and your feedback to help us continue to make MySQL always better.

As for the method used for determining the winner every year, DB-Engine explained it …

Starting with version 8.0.18 the MySQL Workbench source package finally ships also all our GPL unit and integration tests, which we are using internally to control code quality. For that we had first to replace our old, outdated testing framework by something new and more appropriate. We evaluated quite a few C++ testing frameworks but found them either not to be sufficient or difficult to use. Instead we had something in mind that comes close to the Jasmine framework which is widely used among JS developers. The way it hides all the boring test management details and the clear structure it uses, was quite an inspiration for us and we decided to develop our own testing framework modeled after that.

Casmine – C++17 BDD Testing Framework

Casmine is a C++ unit and integration testing …

As follow up to the regular shows announcements, we would like to inform you about places & shows where you can find MySQL Community team or MySQL experts at during December to February timeframe. Please find the list below:

December 2019:

• UKOUG Tech Fest, Brighton, UK, December 1-4, 2019

  • Oracle is having a big booth at this show, however this time MySQL is not part of this. Instead David Stokes, the MySQL Community Manager has a MySQL talk on "MySQL 8.0" scheduled for December 2nd @16:45-17:30. Please see the schedule.
• …

Fedora 31 is out today; another rev on one of the most popular community Linux distros out there. As usual, we support the latest Fedora from day one, and we have added the following MySQL products to our official MySQL yum repos: MySQL Server (8.0.18 and 5.7.28) Connector C++ 8.0.18 Connector Python 8.0.18 Connector ODBC […]

MySQL Server 8.0.18, 5.7.28 and 5.6.46, new versions of the popular Open Source Database Management System, have been released. These releases are recommended for use on production systems. For an overview of what’s new, please see http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/mysql-nutshell.html http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/mysql-nutshell.html http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/mysql-nutshell.html For information on installing the release on new servers, please see the MySQL installation documentation at […]