New collations in MySQL 8.0.0
Since MySQL 5.5, MySQL has supported the utf8mb4 character set.  With the character-set defining the repertoire of characters that can be stored (utf8mb4 can present Unicode characters from U+0000 to U+10FFFF), a collation defines how sorting order and comparisons should behave.…

MySQL Cluster Manager 1.4.2 released!
MySQL Cluster Manager 1.4.2 is now available for download from My Oracle Support. In this blog post we will highlight some of the details of the MCM 1.4.2 release. Progress reporting First, some eye candy. With MCM 1.4.2 we added simple progress reporting.…

Improved Logging Messages
Introduction Logging is a very important diagnostic tool for understanding the behavior of the application as well as troubleshooting any issue with the application. Since MySQL Enterprise Backup (MEB) is a command line application, there is little interaction with the myriad of operations...

Optimistic Incremental Backup
MySQL Enterprise Backup Team is pleased to announce major improvements in incremental backup performance starting with release 4.1. Introduction The current incremental backup algorithm scans all the tables to gather changed pages even if very few tables are modified since the...

Improved Redo Log Copying During Backup
MySQL Enterprise Backup Team is pleased to announce redo log performance improvements during the backup operation starting with release 4.1.  Introduction  As explained in Redo Logging in InnoDB, redo logs are written to the redo log files in a circular fashion. Unless the...

Upgrading your MySQL Server Farm
There are several advantages to keeping up to date with the latest major versions of MySQL. To provide a short example using MySQL 5.7: Let application developers benefit from new functionality, e.g. JSON in 5.7 Use your hardware infrastructure more efficiently with parallel slaves in...

MySQL Workbench 6.3.9 GA has been released
The MySQL developer tools team announces 6.3.9 as our GA release for MySQL Workbench 6.3. For the full list of changes in this revision, visit http://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/workbench/en/changes-6-3.html For discussion, join the MySQL Workbench Forums: http://forums.mysql.com/index.php?152 ...

Group Replication @ FOSDEM 2017
Early February, we had the please to engage the MySQL community at FOSDEM. Thanks  everybody for a great event and an amazing MySQL Community dinner. We had a great  time. We did some presentations, while at the MySQL devroom @ FOSDEM 2017, where we...