Configuring Perl to work with MySQL is the last part creating a complete Fedora Linux LAMP stack for my students. Perl is already installed on Fedora Linux.

I’ve also shown how to use PHP, Python, and Ruby languages to query a MySQL database on Linux. After installing this additional Perl DBI library, my students will have the opportunity to choose how they implement their LAMP solution.

You can find the Perl version with the following version.pl program:

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#!/usr/bin/perl -w
 
# Print the version.
print "Perl ".$]."\n";

This post works through the Python configuration of Fedora instance, and continues the configuration of my LAMP VMware instance. It covers how you add the MySQL-python libraries to the Fedora instance, and provides the students with one more language opportunity for their capstone lab in the database class.

A standard Fedora Linux distribution installs Python 2.7 by default. Unfortunately, the MySQL-python library isn’t installed by default. You can verify the Python version by writing and running the following version.py program before installing the MySQL-python library:

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# Import sys library.
import sys
 
# Print the Python version.
print sys.version

You can run the version.py program dynamically like this from the current working directory:

Folks, as usual Pythian is organizing the community dinner. After many years, food, (responsible) drinking and photos, this event has become an important moment for all of us, to know each other better, discuss and have fun.

This year is also the 20th year for MySQL so … YEAAAH let us celebrate, with more food, fun and responsible drinking.

If you had not done it yet … register yourself here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-pythian-mysql-community-pay-your-own-way-dinner-tickets-15692805604

Info about the event:

When: Tuesday April 14, 2015 – 7:00 PM at Pedro’s (You are welcome to show up later, too!
Where: Pedro’s Restaurant and Cantina – 3935 Freedom Circle, Santa Clara, CA 95054

I know, I know … we are that kind of …

Folks, as usual Pythian is organizing the community dinner. After many years, food, (responsible) drinking and photos, this event has become an important moment for all of us, to know each other better, discuss and have fun.

This year is also the 20th year for MySQL so … YEAAAH let us celebrate, with more food, fun and responsible drinking.

If you had not done it yet … register yourself here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-pythian-mysql-community-pay-your-own-way-dinner-tickets-15692805604

Info about the event:

When: Tuesday April 14, 2015 – 7:00 PM at Pedro’s (You are welcome to show up later, too!
Where: Pedro’s Restaurant and Cantina – 3935 Freedom Circle, Santa Clara, CA 95054

I know, I know … we are that kind of …

What the MySQL team is doing with JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) in MySQL 5.7 is great! The MySQL Server Blog (Rick Hillegas and Dag Wanvik) published two key articles about new JSON functions. If you don’t follow these, let me highlight them as a set:

• JSON Functions, Part 1 – Manipulation JSON Data
• JSON Functions, Part 2 – Querying JSON Data

Most folks know how important JSON is to web development. I like the following visual that …

After you install Ruby and build the Rails framework, you need to create the mysql gem. This blog post shows you how to create the mysql gem and how to write a simple Ruby program that queries the MySQL database.

The first step creates the mysql gem for Ruby programming:

yum install mysql

It should show you the following:

Fetching: mysql-2.9.1.gem (100%)
Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
Successfully installed mysql-2.9.1
Parsing documentation for mysql-2.9.1
Installing ri documentation for mysql-2.9.1
Done installing documentation for mysql after 0 seconds
1 gem installed

After you install the mysql Ruby Gem, you can write and …

The MySQL 5.7.7 JSON Lab release introduces a native JSON datatype. In part 1 of this blog post series, Rick Hillegas introduced the new functions for creating and manipulating JSON documents using the new native JSON data type. In this blog post we will be using some of the same sample tables and JSON documents as in part 1, so it will be helpful to read that blog post now, if you haven’t already.

Here we look closer at the functions provided to search through and peer into JSON documents to find values inside of them, and we’ll also cover a few utility functions as we go along. The functions described here are also summarized at the end of this blog for ease of reference.

Please note that the exact set of functions and their semantics may evolve …

The MySQL 5.7.7 JSON Lab release introduces a native JSON datatype. See Knut Anders Hatlen’s blog post for more details on this new datatype. In this release we also introduced a number of functions for creating and querying JSON documents. In this post we’ll explore the following new functions related to manipulating JSON documents:

• jsn_array()
• jsn_object()
• jsn_insert()
• jsn_remove()
• jsn_set()
• jsn_replace()
• jsn_append()
• jsn_merge()
• jsn_extract()

Dag Wanvik’s follow up blog …

In the MySQL 5.7.7 JSON labs release, we have introduced a new data type for storing JSON data in MySQL tables. Now you can do this:

mysql> CREATE TABLE employees (data JSON);
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0,01 sec)

mysql> INSERT INTO employees VALUES ('{"id": 1, "name": "Jane"}');
Query OK, 1 row affected (0,00 sec)

mysql> INSERT INTO employees VALUES ('{"id": 2, "name": "Joe"}');
Query OK, 1 row affected (0,00 sec)

mysql> select * from employees;
+---------------------------+
| data                      |
+---------------------------+
| {"id": 1, "name": "Jane"} |
| {"id": 2, "name": "Joe"}  |
+---------------------------+
2 rows in set (0,00 sec)

Sure, you could always store JSON data in a TEXT or VARCHAR column, but having a native data type for JSON provides some major benefits over that approach:

1. Document Validation

   Only …

New in MySQL 5.7.7, the MySQL sys schema (originally the ps_helper project) is now included by default within the MySQL server!

For those unfamiliar with the sys schema project, it is a database schema with a set of objects (views, stored procedures, stored functions, and table with a couple of triggers on it) that were implemented to give easy, human readable, DBA and Developer based use case access to the wealth of instrumentation data implemented primarily within Performance Schema, but also with various …