Oracle Open World 2016 has just finished in San Francisco and we are now about to embark on Percona Live Europe in Amsterdam. I offered a presentation in San Francisco on the MySQL X protocol, the new protocol that Oracle is using to make the DocumentStore work. This new protocol also allow you to send … Continue reading OOW16 talk – MySQL X protocol – Talking to MySQL directly over the Wire

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MySQL 8.0.0 exists.

For general impressions we already have comments by Giuseppe Maxia and Stewart Smith and Serdar Yegulalp.

Two new features looked important to me: modern UCA collations, and roles. So I downloaded and tried them out.

Modern UCA collations

MySQL is going to switch to utf8mb4 for the default character set and add collations based on the the latest version of the Unicode Collation Algorithm (UCA 9.0.0). I still see …

We are very excited about the next release of MySQL Group Replication 0.9.0 in MySQL 5.7.15 and the great work that has been done to improve its stability. Release after release, MySQL Group Replication becomes more stable and more user-friendly and has reached a maturity level that made us declare 0.9.0 a release candidate.…

Software Packaging EngineerJob Description & Main Responsibilities

Codership is looking for a part-time Build and Packaging Engineer. We use Jenkins to build various packages for multiple distros and the engineer will take ownership of the build pipeline and extend it to cover additional platforms and testing scenarios.

There are plenty of interesting problems to tackle on the job, from crafting .spec files with complex dependencies to automatically testing no-downtime rolling upgrades of a distributed system.

Main Responsibilities

•  take the ownership of and maintain Galera Cluster packages on Linux (.RPM and .DEB) and BSD

• maintain the automatic package building pipeline and extend it to cover additional platforms and testing scenarios

Desired Skills & Requirements

• knowledge of …

Welcome to this week’s Planets9s, covering all the latest resources and technologies we create around automation and management of open source database infrastructures.

This Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.7.14-26.17 GA release is dedicated to the memory of Federico Goncalvez, our colleague with Percona’s Uruguayan team until his tragic death on September 6, 2016.

Fede, we miss you.

Percona announces the first general availability (GA) release in the Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.7 series on September 29, 2016. Binaries are available from the downloads area or our software repositories.

The full release notes are available …

The first DMR of MySQL 8 was recently released. While a DMR (or Developer Milestone Release) is not yet a GA product, it does come with our commitment that each feature has been tested and qualified for inclusion.

In MySQL 8.0 we have made additional improvements to the MySQL test framework (MTR) and the test suite.…

Nodejs is very popular in Todays for make chat system realtime notification realtime developing etcSo Today I am going to give you very simple example of How to use MySQL Query in Node JS If you use nodejs then you can see how it is work and there are several driver for different task li

Nodejs is very popular in Todays for make chat system realtime notification realtime developing etcSo Today I am going to give you very simple example of How to use MySQL Query in Node JS If you use nodejs then you can see how it is work and there are several driver for different task li

We’ve just completed Part 2 of our webinar trilogy on MySQL Query Tuning this week and if you didn’t get the chance to join us for the live sessions (or would like to watch them again), the recording is now available to view online as a replay.

As announced in our communications, these webinars are almost 1.5hrs long, as the content is quite dense (and we got some great questions from participants as well), so be sure to make sufficient time available to watch the replay ;-)

Watch the replay

About 40% of our audience indicated that they currently either use MySQL / Percona Server 5.5 (or earlier), MySQL / Percona Server 5.6 or MariaDB 10.1, so it was an interesting mix. We also found that the majority of participants don’t have a process to check for unused indexes, which was a good opportunity to …