(Norvald H. Ryeng) The client library — libmysqlclient — is part of the same source code repository as the server. It comes both as a dynamic link library (.so), also called a shared library, and as a static link library (.a).

(Nilnandan Joshi) Recently, I was working on a MySQL support ticket where a customer was facing an issue while transporting tablespace from MySQL 5.6 to MySQL 5.7.

(Peter Gulutzan) Support for storing and querying JSON within SQL is progressing for the ANSI/ISO SQL Standard, and for MySQL 5.7. I’ll look at what’s new, and do some comparisons.

(Ted Wennmark) In my last post playing with MySQL fabric here and here I used MySQL fabric version 1.4.1 and MySQL 5.6, i must say lot’s of things have happened over the last 20 months! MySQL have released several new versions of MySQL Fabric and also a new version of the server with MySQL 5.7.

(Tony Darnell) 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.

(Mario Beck) Starting with the new release MySQL 5.7 there is support to store JSON documents in a column. During our recent Tech Tour events we got questions about document validation, so ensuring that a JSON document has a certain structure.

(Giuseppe Maxia) Among the many New features introduced by MySQL 5.7, we can notice a strong trend towards improving the server security by default. Two features stand out in this respect:

(Alex Slotnick) Indexes are usually built by way of a data structure; typically, that structure takes the form of a “tree.” Most commonly, the structure of choice is a B-Tree, which is a hierarchical organization defined by the arrangement and interactions of its nodes.

(Norvald H. Ryeng) The client library — libmysqlclient — is part of the same source code repository as the server. It comes both as a dynamic link library (.so), also called a shared library, and as a static link library (.a). During the 5.7 development cycle, we’ve made several improvements to the

(Giuseppe Maxia) We’re going to explore the choices and the differences between various types of deployments. We will consider four use cases: