Improvements for many-table joins in MySQL 5.6
A lot has happened in MySQL 5.6 for queries joining many tables. For the most common use cases we have drastically reduced the cost of finding the execution plan. We have also improved the heuristics...
View ArticleNew Replication, Optimizer and High Availability features in MySQL 5.6.5!
As the Product Manager for the MySQL database it is always great to announce when the MySQL Engineering team delivers another great product release. As a field DBA and developer it is even better when...
View ArticleGoogle-Hacking MySQL and More MySQL Security Slides Are Up
If you missed my 3-hour tutorial on “Google-Hacking MySQL and More MySQL Security at the Percona Live: MySQL Conference & Expo this morning, the PDF slides are now available at...
View ArticleMySQL Workbench 5.2.39 GA Released
The MySQL Developer Tools team is announcing the next maintenance release of its flagship product, MySQL Workbench, version 5.2.39. This version contains MySQL Utilities 1.0.5, a set of command line...
View Article[Live !] Slides from MySQL Conf 2012
Hi everybody, I’m sure you’re all listening about what is happening at the MySQL annual conference (no ? really ?) So, you can find bellow all the slides I can grab from Twitter or other, enjoy ! I’ll...
View ArticleMySQL Conference 2012 Day 0
Wow what a lot has changed since the last MySQL conference I blogged about in 2007 MySQL has been acquired twice, once as MySQL by Sun and the second time around bundled with Sun when Oracle bought...
View ArticleInnoDB transportable tablespaces
The Problem In the past users were unable to take full advantage of the FLUSH TABLES WITH READ LOCK statement. InnoDB simply ignored the flush to disk part. If the table did not have any dirty pages in...
View ArticleImproved DBT-3 Results with MySQL 5.6.5
In addition to the Optimizer features added in earlier 5.6 Development Milestone Releases, the newly released MySQL 5.6.5 Development Milestone Release adds a few more. I think this is a good time to...
View ArticleThanks to Everyone who has been Sharing info from the Conference!
I just wanted to give a quick shout out and say thank you to all who have been sharing talks and exciting news from the conference for those of us who weren’t able to attend! It’s greatly appreciated!...
View ArticleSkySQL and MariaDB Consulting Lounge and Solutions Day this Friday
If you’re attending the conference, be sure to stay the extra day (this Friday) for the SkySQL and MariaDB Consulting Lounge and Solutions Day. You can register for the Free Solutions Day here (just...
View ArticleMySQL 5.0.96 is Now Available (for 5.0 Users)
This is just a post to let you 5.0 users know that 5.0.96 is now available. You may have read about some of the security bugs fixed in the recent 5.0.95, and now 5.0.96 is available (it’s been nearly 9...
View ArticleApril 2012 Labs Release – Online DDL Improvements
This feature is a continuation of the “Fast Index Creation” feature introduced in Fast Index Creation in the InnoDB Storage Engine. Now you can perform other kinds of DDL operations on InnoDB tables...
View ArticleAnother great MySQL 5.6 milestone release
Oracle has released another huge batch of improvements to MySQL slated for MySQL 5.6. The pace of innovation in MySQL is accelerating rapidly and the improvements are impressive. I have not read all of...
View ArticleInnoDB performance improvements
The problem After making several performance fixes, notable among them being the kernel mutex split and the new handling of read-only transaction and in particular non-locking auto-commit read-only...
View ArticleSkySQL’s Updated Training Schedule
This is just an update to let you know that the new SkySQL Training Schedule is now available online. The schedule extends as far as September 2012. There are courses in the Belgium, Germany, France,...
View ArticleMySQL 5.6.5-m8 DMR Table-of-contents
In the spirit of supporting the community, Baron asked for a table-of-contents blog post that encapsulated all of the recent Oracle 5.6 DMR posts. I agree with Baron, a huge amount of information came...
View ArticleMemcached With SASL Support
In this April MySQL Lab release, we’ll provide you a more robust and release-ready InnoDB Memcached Engine with a few enhancements. The most notable addition is the SASL support, which gives users the...
View ArticlePictures from Pedro’s Dinner 2012
A very well attended Pedro’s dinner – I didn’t count, but we had 9 tables of 8-10 people or so – dare I say almost a 100 people? Lots of beer, margaritas and good conversations! Here are a few pictures...
View ArticleInnoDB persistent stats got a friendly UI
After introducing InnoDB persistent statistics in MySQL 5.6 we have now dressed it up in a nice UI and refactored the internals a bit to make the code more elegant and straight-forward. The persistent...
View ArticleMySQL Backup Updated
As MySQL continues to grow (as a technology and as an ecosystem) the need and importance of creating and deploying robust MySQL backup solutions grows as well. In many circles Zmanda is known as “The...
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