In TokuMX 1.5 that is right around the corner, the big feature will be partitioned collections. This feature is similar to partitioned tables in Oracle, MySQL, SQL Server, and Postgres. A question many have is “why should I use partitioned tables?” In short, it’s complicated. The answer depends on your workload, your schema, and your database of choice. For example, this Oracle related post states “Anyone with un-partitioned databases over 500 gigabytes is courting disaster.” That’s not true for TokuDB or TokuMX. Nevertheless, partitioned tables are valuable; it’s why we …

Another MySQL User Group meeting called "MySQL User Camp-Bangalore" is announced for Jun 20 in Bangalore, India!! Please find more details below:

• Date and time: June 20, 2014 at 3PM IST
• Place: Bangalore, Kalyani Magnum campus
• Registration: Registration is needed, please contact mysql.bangalore@gmail.com
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Agenda:

• MySQL 5.7 New Features and NoSQL support in MySQL
• Sharding as implemented in MySQL Fabric
• Open discussion with MySQL developers

We are looking forward to seeing you on Jun 20!!

As an update to the previous announcement from Mar 25, 2014 please find below the updated list of events where MySQL Community team is attending and/or supporting. This time you can find not only EMEA & APAC ones but also conferences & events we are covering in the US & Canada. You are invited to meet our engineers at the events below.  

EMEA 

• NEW!! BGOUG, Sandanski, Bulgaria, June 13, 2014
  •  Georgi Kodinov will attend and speak at this local Oracle User Group event. Feel free to come.
• PHP Tour Lyon, Lyon, France, June 23-24, 2014
  • MySQL team is …

The architecture of MySQL-powered applications is one of my favorite topics to talk about. It’s a very important topic because if you do not get the architecture right then you’re very likely to fail with your project – either from the standpoint of failing with performance, high availability or security requirements… or failing to deliver on time and at the planned cost.

It’s also a great topic because there is so much knowledge available these days about MySQL-powered applications. MySQL has been around for a rather long time compared with many other solutions – and now we know what architectures have enabled people to build successful MySQL-powered applications and grow them to hundreds of millions of users as well as what applications did not work out.

This level of maturity really allows us to essentially take “off-the-shelf” MySQL architectures that can be used to build very …

A few weeks ago MySQL Fabric got GA and shipped together with MySQL Utilities 1.4. Today, 2 weeks late, a tooth less and having fixed my website(s), I can blog about MySQL Connector/Python v1.2 going GA.

My previous post about the release candidate already summed up the important changes, and nothing changed since then except few bug fixes. Here are again the important new features/bugs fixed for Connector/Python v1.2:

• Added support for MySQL Fabric.
• Support for MySQL’s Authentication Plugins: mysql_clear_password and sha256_password are now supported over an SSL connection.
• Failing over connections (note: not MySQL Fabric HA)

Of course, …

The MariaDB project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of MariaDB 5.5.38. This is a Stable (GA) release.

See the Release Notes and Changelog for detailed information on this release and the What is MariaDB 5.5? page in the MariaDB Knowledge Base for general information about the MariaDB 5.5 series.

Download MariaDB 5.5.38

Release Notes Changelog …

The MySQL Windows Experience Team is proud to announce the release of MySQL for Excel version 1.3.0.  This is a beta release for 1.3.x.

As this is a beta version the MySQL for Excel product can be downloaded only by using the product standalone installer at this link: http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/windows/excel/

Your feedback on this beta version is very well appreciated, you can raise bugs on the MySQL bugs page or give us your comments on the MySQL for Excel forum.

If you’re going to be near Edinburgh this week then consider registering for OUG Scotland. I’ll be presenting on how to acheive the benefits of NoSQL (scalability, HA, ease of use. simple APIs) while at the same time still benefiting from the RDBMS features people have grown to rely on (ACID transactions, rich schemas, flexible access patterns) – the presentation will be at 11:25 on Wednesday as part of the developers’ track.

Hint for those that can’t make it – MySQL Cluster is the key

Hosting a shared MySQL instance for your internal or external clients (“multi-tenant”) was always a challenge. Multi-tenants approach or a “schema-per-customer” approach is pretty common nowadays to host multiple clients on the same MySQL sever. One of issues of this approach, however, is the lack of visibility: it is hard to tell how many resources (queries, disk, cpu, etc) each user will use.

Percona Server contains userstats Google patch, which will allow you to get the resource utilization per user. The new MySQL 5.6 performance_schema has even more instrumentation which can give you a better visibility on per-user or per-schema/per-database level. And if you are running MySQL 5.6.6 or …

I was suitably heartened to hear about the new mine opening up in the Devon here in the UK to mine the element Tungsten.

I comment on this to my associates at Continuent, where comments were made by Csaba as to the appropriate quotes in the article:

“Tungsten is an extraordinary metal.”

“It’s almost as hard as a diamond and has one of the highest melting points of any mineral.”

“Adding a small amount to steel makes it far harder, far more resistant to stress and heat. The benefits to industry are obvious.”

Leading to him to suggest Adding a small amount of Tungsten to MySQL makes it far harder, far more resistant to stress and failures. The benefits to industry are obvious.

I couldn’t possibly agree more!

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