Watch and listen to Laurent Blume, Unix Systems Engineer & PCI Specialist and Vinay Joosery, CEO at Severalnines, as they discuss all there is to know about how to achieve PCI compliance for MySQL & MariaDB with ClusterControl in the replay of our latest webinar.

The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS) is a set of technical and operational requirements defined by the PCI Security Standards Council (PCI SSC) to protect cardholder data. These standards apply to all entities that store, process or transmit cardholder data – with requirements for software developers and manufacturers of applications and devices used in those transactions.

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MySQL Connector/ODBC 5.3.10, a new version of the ODBC driver for the MySQL database management system, has been released.

The available downloads include both a Unicode driver and an ANSI driver based on the same modern codebase. Please select the driver type you need based on the type of your application – Unicode or ANSI. Server-side prepared statements are enabled by default. It is suitable for use with any MySQL version from 5.5.

This is the fifth release of the MySQL ODBC driver conforming to the ODBC 3.8 specification. It contains implementations of key 3.8 features, including self-identification as a ODBC 3.8 driver, streaming of output parameters (supported for binary types only), and support of the SQL_ATTR_RESET_CONNECTION connection attribute (for the Unicode driver only).

Also, Connector/ODBC 5.3 introduces a GTK+-based setup library providing a GUI DSN setup dialog on some Unix-based systems, currently …

MySQL Connector/Node.js is a new Node.js driver for use with the X DevAPI. This release, v8.0.9, is the third development release of the MySQL Connector/Node.js 8.0 series.

The X DevAPI enables application developers to write code that combines the strengths of the relational and document models using a modern, NoSQL-like syntax that does not assume previous experience writing traditional SQL.

MySQL Connector/Node.js can be downloaded through npm (see https://www.npmjs.com/package/@mysql/xdevapi for details) or from https://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/nodejs/.

To learn more about how to write applications using the X DevAPI, see http://dev.mysql.com/doc/x-devapi-userguide/en/. For more …

Percona announces the release of Percona Server for MySQL 5.5.59-38.11 on January 30, 2018. Based on MySQL 5.5.59, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server for MySQL 5.5.59-38.11 is now the current stable release in the 5.5 series.

Percona Server for MySQL is open-source and free. Downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories.

Bugs Fixed:

• With innodb_large_prefix set to 1, Blackhole storage engine was incompatible with InnoDB table …

Dear MySQL users,

MySQL Connector/Net 8.0.10 is the first release candidate of MySQL
Connector/Net to add support for the new X DevAPI. The X DevAPI enables
application developers to write code that combines the strengths of the
relational and document models using a modern, NoSQL-like syntax that
does not assume previous experience writing traditional SQL.

To learn more about how to write applications using the X DevAPI, see
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/x-devapi-userguide/en/index.html. For more
information about how the X DevAPI is implemented in Connector/Net, see
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/dev/connector-net.

Please note that the X DevAPI requires at least MySQL Server version
5.7.12 or higher with the X …

In this blog post, I’ll look at whether optimizing indexing is always the key to improving MySQL query performance (spoiler, it isn’t).

As we look at MySQL query performance, our first concern is often whether a query is using the right indexes to retrieve the data. This is based on the assumption that finding the data is the most expensive operation – and the one you should focus on for MySQL query optimization. However, this is not always the case.

Let’s look at this query for illustration:

mysql> show create table tbl G
*************************** 1. row ***************************
      Table: tbl
Create Table: CREATE TABLE `tbl` (
 `id` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
 `k` int(11) NOT NULL DEFAULT '0',
 `g` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL,
 PRIMARY KEY (`id`),
 KEY `k_1` (`k`)
) ENGINE=InnoDB …

Security of data is critical for any organisation. It’s an important aspect that can heavily influence the design of the database environment. When deciding upon which MySQL flavour to use, you need to take into consideration the security features available from the different server vendors. In this blog post, we’ll come up with a short comparison of the latest versions of the MySQL Community Edition from Oracle, Percona Server and MariaDB:

mysqld  Ver 5.7.20-19 for Linux on x86_64 (Percona Server (GPL), Release 19, Revision 3c5d3e5d53c)
mysqld  Ver 5.7.21 for Linux on x86_64 (MySQL Community Server (GPL))
mysqld  Ver 10.2.12-MariaDB for Linux on x86_64 (MariaDB Server)

We are going to use Centos 7 as the operating system - please keep in mind that results we present here may be slightly different on other …

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Windowing functions are way to group rows of data for analysis. This provides a 'window' to look at only the relevant data only.  Plus there are about a dozen supporting functions to take advantage of all this. There is some carry over logically from the aggregate (or group by) functions but they open up some easy ways to dig statistically into your data.

Now for a contrived example.

mysql> Select row_number() over w as '#', 
       Name, Continent, Population, 
       sum(Population) over w as 'Pop' 
       from country where continent='South America' 
window w as (partition by Continent Order by Continent);                                                                                
+----+------------------+---------------+------------+-----------+
| #  | Name             | Continent     | Population | Pop       | …

We are pleased to announce that MySQL Enterprise Monitor 4.0.3 is now available for download on the My Oracle Support (MOS) web site. It will also be available for download via the Oracle Software Delivery Cloud in a few days. MySQL Enterprise Monitor is the best-in-class tool for monitoring and management of your MySQL assets and is included with your MySQL Enterprise Edition and MySQL Enterprise Carrier Grade subscriptions.

You can find more information on the contents of this release in the change log.

Highlights of MySQL Enterprise Monitor 4.0 include:

• Modern look and feel: a redesigned user interface delivers a vastly improved overall user experience. The visible changes--the layout, the icons, the and the overall aesthetics--provide a more natural and intuitive experience. Views dynamically change and …