Important notice: with this release we have changed registration keys. Please have your new key available when upgrading. As usual registered users will get it from our Customer Portal.

This new release of SQLyog has a lot of internal changes: our Visual Studio build environment was upgraded from the old 2010 version, we used before – what required a lot of code changes, actually – and also OpenSSL and SQLite libraries were upgraded for improved security and performance. Additionally we have added features and fixed bugs with this release.

Also note that the upgrade of Visual Studio means that Windows older than Vista (ie. WinXP/2003) and Wine older than version 2.0 are not supported any more.

Changes as compared to MySQL GUI 12.5.1 include:

Features:

Server manufacturers and cloud providers offer different kinds of storage solutions to cater for your database needs. When buying a new server or choosing a cloud instance to run our database, we often ask ourselves - how much disk space should we allocate? As we will find out, the answer is not trivial as there are a number of aspects to consider. Disk space is something that has to be thought of upfront, because shrinking and expanding disk space can be a risky operation for a disk-based database.

In this blog post, we are going to look into how to initially size your storage space, and then plan for capacity to support the growth of your MySQL or MariaDB database.

How MySQL Utilizes Disk Space

MySQL stores data in files on the hard disk under a specific directory that has the system variable "datadir". The contents of the datadir will depend on the MySQL server version, and the loaded configuration parameters …

Or How ProxySQL Out-performs Native Aurora Cluster Endpoints

In this blog post, I'll look at how you can use ProxySQL with AWS Aurora to further leverage database performance. My previous article described how easy is to replace the native Aurora connector with ProxySQL. In this article, you will see WHY you should do that. It is important to understand that aside from the basic optimization in the connectivity and connection management, ProxySQL also provides you with a new set of features that currently are not available in Aurora. Just think:

• Better caching
• Query filtering
• Sharding
• Query substitution
• Firewalling
• ... and more

We will cover areas like scalability, security and performance. In short, I think is …

At the end we all agree that what really matters is the Query Response Time, isn’t it ?

MySQL 8.0 engineers have added more visibility in the summary tables as explained in this previous post. But to add more details, now the Performance_Schema also collects the statements latency and provide their distribution thanks to the collected histogram data.

Two tables have been added to Performance_Schema:

• events_statements_histogram_by_digest: details about latency related to schema and query digest
• events_statements_histogram_global: global latency summary across all schemas and queries

Let’s have a look at what we can see: …

Continuent is very pleased and excited to announce that the new Tungsten Clustering 6.0 and Tungsten Replicator 6.0 are now available for download by our customers. The 6.0 release is the culmination of over a years work within our clustering product in order to improve the functionality and manageability of what we now call our ‘Multimaster Clustering’ solution. This is the replacement for what we called the multi-site, multi-master (MSMM) clustering functionality in earlier releases. The multimaster clustering allows for multiple clusters, in multiple locations, to be linked together into a single composite cluster. Because it’s a composite cluster, you gain all of the functionality that’s already available in a cluster, such as:

• High availability
• Failover
• Automated recovery
• Read-write split
• Maintenance without downtime

But it’s now applied to the …

In this blog, I will provide answers to the Q & A for the Performance Schema for MySQL Troubleshooting webinar.

First, I want to thank everybody for attending my March 1, 2018, webinar. The recording and slides for the webinar are available here. Below is the list of your questions that I was unable to answer fully during the webinar.

Q: Is Workbench able to take advantage of the enhancements to Perf schema?

A: MySQL Workbench is a graphical tool for database …

Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) is a free and open-source platform for managing and monitoring MySQL® and MongoDB® performance. You can run PMM in your own environment for maximum security and reliability. It provides thorough time-based analysis for MySQL® and MongoDB® servers to ensure that your data works as efficiently as possible.

There are a number of significant updates in Percona Monitoring and Management 1.9.0 that we hope you will like, some of the key highlights include:

• Faster loading of the index page: We have enabled performance optimizations using gzip and HTTP2.
• AWS improvements: We have added metrics from CloudWatch RDS to 6 dashboards, as well as changed our AWS add instance workflow, and made …

Pretend you have a JSON array of data that looks roughly like the following.

mysql> insert into x(y) values('["a","b","c","d"]');
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.10 sec)

You could get all the values from that array using $[*]

mysql> select y->"$[*]" from x;
+----------------------+
| y->"$[*]"            |
+----------------------+
| ["a", "b", "c", "d"] |
+----------------------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)

Or the individual members of the array with an index that starts with zero.

mysql> select y->"$[0]" from x;
+-----------+
| y->"$[0]" |
+-----------+
| "a"       |
+-----------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)

But what about the times you want the last item in the array and really do not want to loop through all the items? How about using …

We are happy to announce a list of events which we - MySQL &/or MySQL Community Team - are attending and speaking at during the period of time of April to June 2018. Please be aware that the list does not have to be final, during the time more events could be added or some of them removed. 

April 2018:

• PHP Yorkshire, Yorkshire, UK, April 13-Workshop, April 14-Conference, 2018

  • Same as last year we are sponsoring and attending this conference as Silver sponsor. You can find us at MySQL booth in expo area.
• Darkmira PHP Tour, Brasilia/DF, April 14-15, 2018
  • Do not miss the Keynote given by Sheeri K. Cabral, who is the leader of MySQL Community.  Sheeri will …

In this blog post, we’ll compare the performance of pattern matching queries vs. full-text indexes.

In my previous blog post, I looked for a solution on how we can search only a part of the email address and how can we make faster queries where the condition is email LIKE '%n.pierre%'. I showed two possible ways that could work. Of course, they had some pros and cons as well but were more efficient and faster than a like '%n.prierre%'.

But you could also ask why I would bother with this? Let’s add a FULLTEXT index, and everybody is happy! Are you sure about that? I’m not. Let’s investigate and test a bit. (We have some nice blog posts that explain how FULLTEXT …