(Alfranio Correia) MySQL Fabric 1.5.2 is out. In this release, you will find fixes for some bugs and, specially, new exciting features:

(Anders Karlsson) The theme for this series of posts is, and indicated in the previous post, “Try and try, again”, and there will be more of this now when I start to make this work by playing with Oracle, with PL/SQL and with the restrictions of Oracle Express (which is the version I have available)

(Rob Gravelle) One of the hottest trends in the world of databases right now is administration using mobile devices. Today’s database administrator doesn’t have to be chained to his/her desktop workstation all day long and then hope that he/she doesn’t get the dreaded wakeup call at 3 AM! I rememb

(mriddoch) The MaxScale team have been working hard fixing bugs and improving performance. On Friday we released a update of MaxScale, the pluggable proxy for MySQL and MariaDB, I wanted to write a little about a few of those changes. I will not mention every change, there are release notes that giv

(Paulo Jesus) We are very happy to introduce a new MySQL utility named “mysqlbinlogmove“, which is used to relocate binary log files. This utility is one of two new utilities included in MySQL Utilities release-1.6.0 Alpha. The other utility is “mysqlgrants“, which is used to display the privileges

(Shlomi Noach) Did you know common_schema supports a complete breakdown of all accounts on your database server? It can provide you with the GRANT statements required to set up an account, the REVOKE statements to undo the former, and this can be broken down on a per-object & per-object-type basis.

(Nelson Gonçalves) We are happy to announce mysqlgrants, a new utility that allows users to display the privileges of grantees over database objects. Together with mysqlbinlogmove, these are the new utilities included in MySQL Utilities release-1.6.0 Alpha.

(Ulf Wendel) It is official: MySQL listens to HTTP and speaks JSON. MySQL got a new plugin that lets HTTP clients and JavaScript users connect to MySQL using HTTP. The development preview brings three APIs: key-document for nested JSON documents, CRUD for JSON mapped SQL tables and plain SQL with JS

(Luis Soares) The latest and greatest MySQL 5.7 development milestone release (DMR) is out (changelog). It is great to see such a strong and steady cadence of development releases. The latest one, 5.7.5, is packed with awesome features. Let me highlight a few ones related to replication.

(Anders Karlsson) Yes, there is a simple way to do this. Although it might not be so simple unless you know how to do it, so let me show you how this can be done. It’s actually pretty cool. But I’ll do this over a number of blog posts, and this is just an introductory blog, covering some of the […]