Dear MySQL users,

MySQL Connector/ODBC 5.3.7, 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 fourth 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 …

One of the most requested features for InnoDB cluster has been Windows support that we have now delivered as part of the InnoDB Cluster 5.7.17 Preview Release 2. This blog post will show you how to get your InnoDB cluster running on your MS Windows 10 64bit system.…

An important thing to know when managing an InnoDB cluster are the states that the cluster can be in, especially to know how to interpret the reported status of the cluster and specifically what to do to recover from failure various scenarios.…

Traditionally, setting up high availability (HA) in MySQL has been a challenging task, especially for people without advanced knowledge of MySQL. From understanding concepts and technologies, to the tooling, specific commands and files to execute and edit, there’s a lot of things you need to know even when planning a test deployment (the Quick Start Guide for Group Replication should give you an idea).…

We carefully listened to the feedback we got from the last preview release and incorporated most of the suggested changes, the rest will follow in the next release.

Here are the highlights of this release!

Remote Instances support

The last preview release of InnoDB cluster only allowed to work with sandbox instances on localhost.…

The MySQL Development Team is happy to announce a new release of the MySQL InnoDB Cluster – 5.7.17 Preview, now available for download at http://labs.mysql.com/. This release contains the following packages.

• MySQL Router 2.1.1 labs & MySQL Shell 1.0.6 labs
  • Download for Windows 10 (also see Windows Tutorial blog post)
  • Download for MacOS 10.12
  • …

In this blog series, I will discuss common questions I receive as a database Solutions Engineer at Percona. In this role, I speak with a wide array of MySQL and MongoDB users responsible for both extremely large and complex environments to smaller single-server environments. Typically we are contacted when the customer is about to embark on an architecture migration or redesign, or they have performance issues in their production environment. The purpose of this blog is to put together a list of common questions I field while speaking with active MySQL and MongoDB users.

We are considering a migration to AWS. What solution is right for us: EC2, RDS, or Aurora?

We get this question a lot. Moving to AWS is a hot trend. Fellow Solution Engineer Rick Golba wrote …

MySQL is well known and widely spread because of its philosophy of Keep it Simple (KISS).

We recently had the discussion that with newer releases also MySQL and MariaDB relational databases becomes more and more complicated.

One indication for this trend is the number of MySQL server system variables and status variables.

In the following tables and graphs we compare the different releases since MySQL version 4.0:

mysql> SHOW GLOBAL VARIABLES;
mysql> SHOW GLOBAL VARIABLES LIKE 'innodb%';
mysql> SHOW GLOBAL STATUS;
mysql> SHOW GLOBAL STATUS LIKE 'innodb%';

I have chatting with others who want to use the new X Devapi Document Store features but have not been able to find simple example programs. Finding the bridge between 'Hello World' and something useful can often be discouraging.

Example Code Here is a very short Node.JS Docstore example program that accesses the 'countryinfo' collection. More on why Node.JS and what software you need below. But for now regard this code to get one specific record from the database.

var mysqlx = require('@mysql/xdevapi');

mysqlx.getSession({             //Auth to server
        host: 'localhost',
        port: '33060',
        dbUser: 'root',
        dbPassword: 'password'
}).then(function (session) {    // use world_x.country.info
     var schema = session.getSchema('world_x');
     var collection = schema.getCollection('countryinfo');

collection                      // Get row for 'CAN'
 …

It’s a wonderful news, we have released MySQL 5.7.17 with Group Replication Plugin (GA quality).

From the definition, Group Replication is a multi-master update everywhere replication plugin for MySQL with built-in conflict detection and resolution, automatic distributed recovery, and group membership.

So we can indeed compare this solution with Galera from Codership which is a Replication Plugin implementing the WSREP API. WSREP, Write Set Replication,  extends the replication API to provide all the information and hooks required for true multi-master, “virtually synchronous” replication.

With Group Replication, MySQL implemented all this information …