MySQL Connector/Net 6.3.9, the latest maintenance release of our
6.3 version series, has been released. Connector/Net is our
all-managed .NET driver for MySQL. This release will be the
last release of our 6.3.x series and contains more than 25 fixes
from the 6.3.8 base. Users looking for additional fixes or
features should upgrade to our most recent version. You can
see the list of changes and read more about the connector
at http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/connector-net.html
Version 6.3.9 is appropriate for use with versions of MySQL
5.0-5.5.
It is now available in source and binary form from http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/net/6.3.html#downloads
and mirror sites (note that not all mirror …
Collaborate 2012 started on Sunday but for me I began on Monday. I enjoyed Bob Burgess, SalesForce, presentation on shell scripting for MySQL Administration today. It preceded my presentation in the same room, which I thought was an interesting coincidence since we got our conference credentials together.
I presented on portable SQL between Oracle and MySQL. The presentation went well. Before I took questions, I got to ask them because I had three copies of my new Oracle Press book to give away: Oracle Database 11g and MySQL 5.6 Developer Handbook. Handing out the books served as a nice ice breaker for the audience to ask questions about the presentation.
My favorite …
[Read more]Log Buffer Editions are marching along, and this Log Buffer #268 is once again all about Oracle, MySQL, and SQLServer plus some peeks at some of other glittering database technologies like PostgreSQL and DB2. Sit back and enjoy. Oracle: Martin has produced another scenario based blog post about Shrinking Tables to Aid Full Scans. What [...]
For the week of April 18th, 2012: Oracle Announces It’s First Sponsored MySQL Conference A New Development Milestone Release of MySQL 5.6 is now available IOUG’s Real World Performance Tour Returns to California this Month IOUG’s Plug-In to Vegas! adds … Continue reading →
At Collaborate, and on the Web, come on and join us and F2F with the tech-saavy! COLLABORATE Social Media Hour Tues, 4/24, 1–2 pm Exhibit Hall-IOUG Booth There’s no 140 character limit for this meet up! Stop by the IOUG … Continue reading →
Plug-in to Vegas The program focuses on key topics such as high availability, virtualization, security, business intelligence, Exadata, Cloud Computing and internals. Recently added, we switched around the schedule to include the Thursday Deep Dive, Avoiding Downtime through the Maximum … Continue reading →
The MySQL UC this past week was the best in years. Percona
did an outstanding job of organizing the main Percona Live event that ran Tuesday through
Thursday. About 1000 people attended, which is up from the
800 or so at the O'Reilly-run conference in 2011. There
were also excellent follow-on events on Friday for MariaDB/SkySQL, Drizzle, and Sphinx.
What made this conference different was the renewed energy around
MySQL and the number of companies using it.
- Big web properties like Facebook, Twitter, Google, and Craigslist continue to anchor the …
It seems like yesterday that the blogs appeared. Over the years they have proved to be of much value for the technical and not-so-technical masses. The big boom in this social media outlet has enabled unprecedented sharing of ideas for the database professionals. The nature of databases and the blogging is to always be changing, [...]
Oracle VM Administration: Oracle VM Server for
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pool and repository creation, and virtual machine management.
You can follow this class that brings you great hands-on experience either in-class or from your own desk.
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