Dear MySQL users,

MySQL Connector/Net 6.7.9, 6.8.7, and 6.9.8 are maintenance releases for the series of the .NET driver for MySQL. They can be used for production environments.

They are appropriate for use with MySQL server versions 5.5-5.7.

• The GB18030 Chinese character set is now supported, a character set that was added in MySQL 5.7.4.
• The JSON type is now supported, a type that was added in MySQL 5.7.8.
• Generated columns (GENERATION_EXPRESSION) are now supported, a feature added in MySQL 5.7.6.

An additional entry added for 6.8.7:

• A connection string that included Chinese characters for a database or uid property would emit the following exception;
  “MySqlException: Unknown database ‘???'”. To solve this, the handshake process was hanged to use bytes instead of encoded strings.

The …

The MySQL developer tools team announces 6.3.5 as our GA release for MySQL Workbench 6.3.

For the full list of changes in this revision, visit
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/workbench/en/changes-6-3.html

For discussion, join the MySQL Workbench Forums:
http://forums.mysql.com/list.php?152

Download MySQL Workbench 6.3.5 GA now, for Windows, Mac OS X 10.7+,
Oracle Linux 6 and 7, Fedora 21 and Fedora 22, Ubuntu 14.04 and
Ubuntu 15.04 or sources, from:
http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/tools/workbench/

Enjoy!

Dear MySQL users,

The MySQL developer tools team announces 6.3.5 as our GA release for
MySQL Workbench 6.3.

For the full list of changes in this revision, visit
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/workbench/en/changes-6-3.html

For discussion, join the MySQL Workbench Forums:
http://forums.mysql.com/index.php?152

Download MySQL Workbench 6.3.5 GA now, for Windows, Mac OS X 10.7+,
Oracle Linux 6 and 7, Fedora 21 and Fedora 22, Ubuntu 14.04 and
Ubuntu 15.04 or sources, from:

http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/tools/workbench/

On occasion, one will produce the script that will not work in _ISE or on some particular version of Powershell. So, before allowing script to run, I always do several checks depending on the task at hand. Here's the code:

#region Check
if ($host.Name -ne 'ConsoleHost')
{
    #Running in ISE
    $host.UI.WriteErrorLine("`t Script can not be run in _ISE. Exiting.")
    Exit 1
}

if (($PSVersionTable).PSVersion.Major -lt 3) {
    $host.UI.WriteErrorLine("`t Script can not be run in PS 2. Exiting.")
    Exit 2
}

$clrV = 
  ((Get-ChildItem 'HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\NET Framework Setup\NDP' -recurse |
  Get-ItemProperty -name Version,Release -EA 0 |
  Where { $_.PSChildName -match '^(?!S)\p{L}'} |
  Select Version | Sort Version -Desc | Select -First 1).Version).Split('.')[0]
if ( $clrV -lt 4) {
    $host.UI.WriteErrorLine("`t Script can not be …

Requires ClusterControl 1.2.11 or later. Applies to MySQL based clusters.

From time to time it is necessary to tune and update your configuration. Here we will show you how you can change/update  individual parameters using the ClusterControl UI. Navigate to Manage > Configurations.

Pretend that you want to change max_connections from 200 to 500 on all DB nodes in your cluster.

Click on Change Parameter. Select all MySQL Servers in the DB Instances drop down and select the Group (in this case MYSQLD) where the Parameter that you want to change resides, select the parameter (max_connections), and set the New Value to 500:

…

When you have read my previous blog post about MariaDB 10.1 GA performance, you have probably wondered why I didn’t include any numbers for MySQL 5.7. There are two reasons: first MySQL wasn’t GA at that time and secondly MySQL is not running stable on Power8. Today I will come up with a comparison benchmark. […]

The post MariaDB 10.1 and MySQL 5.7 performance on commodity hardware appeared first on MariaDB.org.

MySQL uses a cost-based optimizer to determine the best way to execute a query. It usually does a great job, but not all the time. There are different reasons for that. In some cases, it might not have enough information about the data and plan queries in a non-optimal way.  

The optimizer makes decisions based on statistics and some fixed costs per operation, but it does not understand the differences in hardware. For instance, disk access may have different costs depending on the type of storage used - SSD drives will have quicker access times than spindles, and can perform more operations in a given time. 

However, it is possible to impact how a query will be executed, and this is the topic of today’s blog. 

(Note that in MySQL 5.7, a lot of work has been done in order to improve this - users can modify the cost of different types of operations.)

This is the fourteenth installment in the …

Good news !

FOSDEM accepted our devroom for the next edition.

The MySQL devroom will take place on Saturday, January 30th 2016.

Stay tuned for the Call For Paper !!

Many years ago, I wrote about importing XML data into MySQL using ExtractValue(). The reason I'm revisiting the subject now is that I recently received an email request in relation to my old blog post:

I came across one of your blogs on importing XML data to MySQL using ExtractData() and I am trying to do the same using MySQL (5.5) database. However, I am new to this kind of method and would like to seek your expertise on this.

I have an XML file that looks like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <wovoml xmlns="http://www.wovodat.org"
 xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
 version="1.1.0" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.wovodat.org phread2.xsd">
 <Data>
 <Seismic>
 <SingleStationEventDataset>
  <SingleStationEvent code="VTAG_20160405000000" owner1="169" …

A friend of mine asked me how they could automatically follow and unfollow people on Twitter. But they didn’t want to follow just anyone and everyone. He had a Twitter account which they used for recruiting in a very narrow construction industry. He wanted to find people in the same industry and follow them – hoping they would follow him back and learn about his open jobs. When I joined Twitter back in 2008, I wrote a similar program to automatically follow/unfollow users, but the Twitter API has changed quite a bit since then. So I decided to re-write the program with the latest Perl-Twitter API – Net::Twitter::Lite::WithAPIv1_1.

Before you attempt to use these scripts, you will need to register your application with twitter via apps.twitter.com, and obtain the following:

consumer_key
consumer_secret
access_token …