(Dave Stokes) How do you dig down into the JSON data, say like in comments on a blog post? This is a badly paraphrased question from Peter Zaitsev of Percona at the end of a recent presentation of mine at the Great Wide Open conference.

(João Osorio) Sometimes it’s useful to have a set of data prepared to be used on a fresh MySQL install for testing purposes. Or you might be preparing some training or workshop and want to prepare examples with fake information.

(Muhammad Irfan) This is the second and last tutorial blog post on how to use pt-table-checksum / pt-table-sync tools for MySQL replication.

(João Osorio) For learning, testing and keep up with things, one might want to install/update the MySQL version to the latest DMR (Development Milestone Release). At the time of this writing the latest DMR for MySQL is MySQL Community Server 5.7.8-rc.

(Alexey Stroganov, Laurynas Biveinis and Vadim Tkachenko) In this blog post, we’ll be discussing Percona Server 5.7 performance improvements.

(João Osorio) Developing a prototype, I found myself wanting a trustworthy cloud provider. Having heard of Openshift, I got my hands on it. It’s Red Hat’s Platform as a Service. With it, you can host and scale applications in a cloud environment.

(Peter Zaitsev and Vadim Tkachenko) Vadim Tkachenko and I have been working with Fractal Tree storage engines (Fractal Tree engines are available in Percona Server for MySQL and MongoDB as TokuDB and PerconaFT, respectively).

(Daniel van Eeden) This is a response to the JSON document fast lookup with MySQL 5.7 article by Frederic Descamp.

(Tibor Korocz and Kenny Gryp) This blog post discusses Orchestrator: MySQL Replication Topology Manager.

(Morgan Tocker) In a previous post I took the new JSON datatype and functions for a test drive, using sample data provided by SF OpenData. Today I will extend that example to include indexing.