Google senior systems engineer Jeremy Cole is once again teaming with LinkedIn senior software engineer Davi Arnaut for two InnoDB-focused sessions at the upcoming Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo 2014 this April 1-4 in Santa Clara, California.
The duo will present “InnoDB: A journey to the core II” on April 2 and “InnoDB: A hands-on exploration of on-disk storage with innodb-ruby” on April 4. Based on Jeremy’s InnoDB blog series, both sessions will be a continuation of …
[Read more]The MySQL developer tools team is pleased to announce 6.1 Beta 2 - the start of the public beta testing phase of MySQL Workbench 6.1
MySQL Workbench 6.1 is the upcoming major update for the official
MySQL graphical development tool.
Introducing over 30 new features, this version has many
significant enhancement focusing on real-time performance
assessment and analysis from the SQL statement level to server
internals and file IO. You'll see this in additions to the SQL
Editor as well as new dashboard visualization and reporting that
takes advantage of MySQL Server 5.6 and 5.7 Performance Schema,
and enhancements to the MySQL Explain Plans.
Additionally Workbench 6.1 this leveraging work from various
teammates in MySQL Engineering in introducing a schema called
"SYS" that provides simplified views on Performance Schema,
Information Schema, and other areas.
Special thanks to the server optimizer team, …
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Toolkit 2.1.11 on March 4th, 2013 (Downloads are available here).
Bugs Fixed:
Fixed bug 1279502: –version-check behaves like spyware
The configuration for what information Percona Toolkit should retrieve is not hard-coded in the scripts. Instead, it is downloaded from v.percona.com. One of the possible parameters was the name of a binary file to execute with “–version.” This was fixed by removing the ability to execute arbitrary binary files with the version parameter. You can find more information about the benefits of …
[Read more]Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve probably heard about driverless cars. Google and the large car makers have been creating cars that doen’t need a human driver. This is tremendous news. Over 30,000 people die in car crashes every year in the US. While not all of those could be prevented by removing the meatbag driver, a lot of them could. Driverless cars are the right way forward and I can’t wait until they come. Every time I see a car wreck or hear about a drunk driver, I wish we had this tech right now.
That said, our teens shouldn’t stop learning to drive defensively, our cops …
[Read more]March 5, 2014 By Severalnines
The Severalnines team is pleased to announce the release of ClusterControl 1.2.5. This release contains key new features along with performance improvements and bug fixes. We have outlined some of the key features below.
For additional details about the release:
In January we encouraged you to prepare for the MySQL Connect Call for Papers, indicating how.
While dates are still subject to change, we wanted to let you
know that the CFP (for MySQL Connect and Oracle OpenWorld
overall) will likely open around March 18th. Remember to prepare
your submissions in advance in order to swiftly submit them
during the 4 to 5 weeks that the CFP will remain open!
Awhile ago I wrote a blog post regarding a funding one of my team members (in the MySQL Support at Oracle) have started, to cover the costs for his wife’s medical treatment. Today it is Amie’s birthday, so I would like to share the funding once more. Please see: Amie’s lottery chances were better..
When someone you know, or somebody close to someone you know, get sick, it is hard to know what to say. While the illness may be a nightmare, needing to pass around the hat, like Shawn have to, does not make things better.
I did not know what to put in my old post, but I did get quite some positive feedback on it. If you would like to read it you may find it at When one of our most talented MySQL Support Engineers …
[Read more]The wild and crazy guys over at S&T Geotronics, James Sanderson and Marc Tessier, have decided to go full tilt with a Kickstarter version of their DIY Open Enigma Project. For those who missed the fanfare last year, they were featured on Instructables showing how to build an Arduino-based encryption machine that works exactly like a WWII era Enigma. You know, the thing that Alan friggin' Turing and his team at …
[Read more]If you haven't read the Wikipedia article on deprecation, you might not know it's from the Latin word deprecare, meaning "to ward off (a disaster) by prayer." That pretty well describes the quandary for any software product that has a big established user base. Is it better to keep junk features, in case removing them will cause disasters for the old users? Or is it better to remove junk features, to avoid ridicule and to make the manual slimmer for the new users?
Historically MySQL has deprecated with caution, and usually MySQL
has followed these steps:
(1) In version X, for any SQL statement that appears to use the
feature, return a warning that the feature "has been deprecated
and may be removed in a future release".
(2) Also in version X, put a notification in the manual.
Notifications have a regular pattern so they're easy to find by
looking in the …
It was quite a while ago since I released a new version of
MyQuery, my Windows based query tool for MariaDB and MySQL. I did
build a 3.5.3 version, but I decided not to do a public release
of that. But now we have 3.5.4 ready, and there is some new shiny
features in it. The main feature is that the dialog that you can
use to inspect individual fields with, which pops up when you
doubleclick (or now you can Right-click and select Show Menu) in
a field, has been expanded.
To being with, you can use this to navigate the fields, so that
you don't have to close this dialog and open it in the next
field, instead there are navigational buttons in the
Dialog.
But there is also some additions to the dialog itself. If you are
using MariaDB and the Dynamic Columns feature, which is mostly
used with the Cassandra Storage Engine but can be used with any
blob data in any engine, then you can view these in the ShowData
dialog, either …
