Wednesday night at Percona Live 2016 was reserved for fun, fun, fun! Once again, the Percona Live Game Night proved to be a popular and amazing event. There were more games this year than last, as well as food, drinks, and lots of friendly competition!

This year, besides the ever-crowd-pleasing Meltdown Challenge, there were Segway Races, pool, foosball, shuffleboard, Wii Boxing, Pac-Man Attack, a shootout gallery, darts, as well as virtual reality stations and a death-defying trampoline.

You can see Percona’s CEO Peter Zaitsev demonstrating how you use it, pro-level:

Below are some more photos of this outstanding night:

Coed boxing: guys, you need to improve your skills!

Some very …

We’re heading into the final day here at Percona Live 2016! People are looking a little tired, but still excited for some excellent talks today. Once again the day started off with two great keynote lectures. Read to the end for an important announcement!

Peter Zaitsev, CEO of Percona
Winning with Open Source Databases

Peter discussed what makes the open source community so vibrant and powerful, and why it is essential to preserve that spirit. Data is critical to the success of your business. You rely on your database and its …

RENAME DATABASE statement was removed from MySQL because it was found to be dangerous. However, MySQL still supports the RENAME TABLE command.

There's a new JSON data type available in MySQL 5.7 that I've been playing with. I wanted to share some examples of when it's useful to have JSON data in your MySQL database and how to work with the new data types (not least so I can refer back to them later!)

MySQL isn't the first database to offer JSON storage; the document databases (such as MongoDB, CouchDB) work on a JSON or JSON-ish basis by design, and other platforms including PostgreSQL, Oracle and SQL Server also have varying degress of JSON support. With such wide adoption as MySQL has, the JSON features are now reaching a new tribe of developers.

Why JSON Is Awesome

Traditional database structures have us design table-shaped ways of storing all our data. As long as all your records (or "rows") are the same shape and have the same sorts of data in approximately the same quantities, this works brilliantly well. There are some common problems that aren't a good …

Ubuntu 16.04 artwork by Canonical Ltd (CC-BY-SA).

Congratulations to Ubuntu on releasing 16.04 LTS with MySQL 5.7! As far as I know, it’s the first stable release of a Linux distro that contains MySQL 5.7. Fedora and openSUSE also have MySQL 5.7, but not yet in a stable release.…

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The MySQL Engineering Team at their BOF session on Tuesday night. Sunny Bains in focus answering InnoDB questions.

On behalf of the entire team, I would like to thank you for stopping by our “meet the MySQL engineering team” BOF held Tuesday night.…

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