If you haven’t heard the news yet, MySQL 8.0 is apparently the next release of the world-famous database server.

Obviously abandoning plans to name the next release 5.8, Percona Server’s upstream provider relabelled all 5.8-related bugs to 8.0 as follows:

Reported version value updated to reflect release name change from 5.8 to 8.0

What will MySQL 8.0 bring to the world?

While lossless RBR has been suggested by Simon Mudd (for example), the actual feature list (except a Boost 1.60.0 upgrade!) remains a secret.

As far as bug and feature requests go, a smart google query revealed which bugs are likely …

In this post, I’ll discuss how MySQL 5.7 handles UTF8MB4 and the load data infile.

Many of my clients have told me that they do not like using the LOAD DATA INFILE statement and prefer to manually parse and load the data. The main reason they do it is issues with the character sets, specifically UTF8MB4 and the load data infile. This was surprising to me as nowadays everyone uses UTF8. MySQL 5.7 (as well as 5.6) has full support for UTF8MB4, which should fix any remaining issues (i.e., you can now load new emoji, like ).

Last week I was investigating an interesting case where we were loading data and got the following error:

mysql -e 'select version()'
+-----------+
| version() |
+-----------+
| 5.7.12    |
+-----------+
$ mysql -vvv testdb < load_data.sql
ERROR 1300 (HY000) at line 1: Invalid …

I am very happy that my talk, MySQL Parallel Replication: inventory, use-cases and limitations, is included in the Sneak Peek of Percona Live Amsterdam.  As a member of the Conference Committee, I knew this was being discussed, but I refrained from commenting on discussion about my talk and the submissions of my colleagues from Booking.com.

Mentioning the conference committee, as you can guess,

• Texas LinuxFest – July 8-9 2016 – Austin, Texas – I’ve never spoken at this event before but have heard great things about it. I’ve got a morning talk about what’s in MariaDB Server 10.1, and what’s coming in 10.2.
• db tech showcase – July 13-15 2016 – Tokyo, Japan – I’ve regularly spoken at this event and its a case of a 100% pure database conference, with a very captive audience. I’ll be talking about the lessons one can learn from other people’s database failures (this is the kind of talk that keeps on changing and getting better as the software improves).
• …

In this new webinar on July 12th, we’ll discuss the most important metrics MongoDB offers and will describe them in ordinary plain MySQL DBA language. We’ll have a look at the open source tools available for MongoDB monitoring and trending. And finally, we’ll show you how to leverage ClusterControl’s MongoDB metrics, dashboards, custom alerting and other features to track and optimize the performance of your system.

To operate MongoDB efficiently, you need to have insight into database performance. And with that in mind, we’ll dive into monitoring in this second webinar in the ‘Become a MongoDB DBA’ series.

Date, Time & Registration Europe/MEA/APAC

Tuesday, July 12th at 09:00 BST / 10:00 CEST (Germany, France, Sweden)
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North America/LatAm

Tuesday, …

Examples are a great way to learn new things. As many of you may or may not know we’ve added some new things to MySQL Server 5.7.12  and the ecosystem around it, extending it  to allow you to use the MySQL as a Document Store. Meeting the challenge meant expanding Developer Interfaces and Database tools.

• Addressing information with a both classic and modern data architectures
• For all types of data – structured, semi, and unstructured
• Empowering developers – Simpler, Faster, Flexible
• Leveraging latest NoSQL oriented tools/methods – JavaScript, Node.js, JSON, CRUD, Methods chaining, and more

From the developer side the MySQL Document Store new APIs by …

As an update to the previous announcement, please find below list of events where you can find either MySQL Community team or MySQL experts at.  Please find more details at each conference below.  New events are marked with NEW! Any update to already announced event is marked as UPDATE!:

• July 2016:
  • NEW! Debian Conference 2016, Cape Town, Africa (July 2-9, 2016) 
    • MySQL Community team is going to support this conference financially even without staffing. 
  • Open Source Conference Okinawa 2016, Japan (July 2, 2016)
    • As tradition we are going to actively participate at this OS event, this time in Okinawa, Japan. There will …

The MariaDB project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of MariaDB 10.2.1 Alpha, MariaDB Connector/C 2.3.0, MariaDB Galera Cluster 5.5.50, and MariaDB Galera Cluster 10.0.26. See the release notes and changelogs for details on these releases. Download MariaDB 10.2.1 Alpha Release Notes Changelog What is MariaDB 10.2? MariaDB APT and YUM Repository Configuration Generator […]

The post MariaDB 10.2.1 Alpha and other releases now available appeared first on MariaDB.org.

After studying the differences between MySQL 5.6 and 5.7, and going through a vigorous regression test process, it’s now time for perform the actual upgrade itself. How do we best introduce 5.7 in our live environment? How can we minimize risks? What do we do if something goes wrong? And what tools are available out there to assist us?

The upgrade process

You will most likely perform a rolling upgrade - this means that you will upgrade one slave at a time, taking them out of rotation for the time needed to complete the upgrade. As the binary, in-place upgrade is supported for 5.6 -> 5.7, we can save lot of time by avoiding long dump and reload operations. This makes the upgrade process prompt and easy to perform.

The MySQL Windows Experience Team is proud to announce the release of MySQL for Visual Studio 2.0.3 m2. Note that this is a development preview release and not intended for production usage.

MySQL for Visual Studio 2.0.3 M2 is the second development preview release of the MySQL for Visual Studio 2.0 series.  This series adds support for the new X DevAPI. The X DevAPI enables application developers to write code that combines the strengths of the relational and document models using a modern, NoSQL-like syntax that does not assume previous experience writing traditional SQL.

To learn more about how to write applications using the X DevAPI, see http://dev.mysql.com/doc/x-devapi-userguide/en/. For more information about how the X DevAPI is implemented in MySQL for Visual Studio, and its usage, see …