The long awaited first release candidate of MySQL 8.0 is now available. The theme of this release is “making MySQL better for modern apps”. What does that mean exactly?
In MySQL 8.0, we will be introducing a new configuration parameter called innodb_dedicated_server=bool. When ON, this option will look at the system memory, and then automatically set the these configuration parameters using the following rules:
As Rene wrote on the ProxySQL blog yesterday:
Although MySQL Query Cache was meant to improve performance, it has serious scalability issues and it can easily become a severe bottleneck.
This is indeed something we have observed in the MySQL team for a while.…
Long time MySQL users will recognize that there are two varieties of utf8 support in MySQL; utf8mb3 and utf8mb4. Let me dig a little bit deeper in explaining the history between the two:
The MySQL Development Team is happy to announce the first GA release of InnoDB Cluster–our integrated, native, full stack HA solution for MySQL. You can see highlights of the changes and improvements made since the RC release here, and you can download the GA packages from our MySQL APT (Ubuntu, Debian) and YUM (Redhat, OEL, Fedora) repositories or from dev.mysql.com.…
In MySQL 5.7, one of the most popular new features is the introduction of JSON:
In MySQL 8.0 we plan to extend this functionality (for example: with the addition of JSON aggregate functions), but we are also considering changing the behaviour of one of the existing functions.…
You might already have seen the announcement of the MySQL InnoDB Cluster Release Candidate (RC), available for download from our MySQL APT (Ubuntu, Debian) and YUM (Redhat, OEL, Fedora) repositories and from dev.mysql.com. As usual, this releases contains the following three components.…
One of the most requested features for InnoDB cluster has been Windows support that we have now delivered as part of the InnoDB Cluster 5.7.17 Preview Release 2. This blog post will show you how to get your InnoDB cluster running on your MS Windows 10 64bit system.…
The MySQL Development Team is happy to announce a new release of the MySQL InnoDB Cluster – 5.7.17 Preview, now available for download at http://labs.mysql.com/. This release contains the following packages.
The InnoDB Cluster 5.7.17 Preview supports and requires the latest MySQL Server 5.7.17 GA release that now ships with Group Replication feature in GA quality.…
In the MySQL team, one of our focuses over the last few releases has been improving the usability of the MySQL Server for operations teams. The results can be seen in a number of areas: