All posts by Rene Ramirez

About Rene Ramirez

Juan Rene Ramirez Monarrez (a.k.a. rennox) is a Software Engineer with a master degree in Computer Science residing in Mexico. He started his career at IBM almost 20 years ago in application development, had a pass on Automation at Freescale Semiconductor (now MXP) and landed at the MySQL world 8 years ago. At MySQL he started working at the Workbench team and now is leading the efforts to make the MySQL Shell the client by excellence for different MySQL products.

Getting Help in MySQL Shell

MySQL

The MySQL Shell has a collection of commands and APIs that allow performing a variety of tasks on MySQL instances  interactively or through scripts.

Although there’s documentation for the JavaScript and Python APIs as well as the User Guide, it comes handy being able to get help about how to use specific elements of the application while working with it, this is what the centralized help system does.…

MySQL Shell 8.0 – What’s New?

MySQL

MySQL Document Store

In MySQL 8.0 a new stack of components is introduced, turning MySQL to a competitive Document Store solution.

The MySQL Document Store takes advantage of existing capabilities including:

  • Efficient and safe data management from the InnoDB storage engine
  • ACID compliance and Transactional Operations
  • High Availability with Group Replication and InnoDB cluster

One of the most attractive components introduced in MySQL 8.0 is a development API (DevAPI) that enables you to create JSON document based applications through a fluent API.…