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Archived MySQL Articles
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05 Oct 2012
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MySQL 5.6 Release Candidate Now Available for Download [27914]
Offers Increased Performance, Scalability, Reliability and Manageability
Oracle announced the availability of MySQL 5.6 Release Candidate featuring increased performance, scalability, reliability and manageability to help users meet the most demanding Web, Cloud-based and embedded application requirements. With this Release Candidate, users can experience simplified query development and execution, better transactional throughput and application availability, flexible NoSQL access, improved replication and enhanced instrumentation. MySQL 5.6 RC provides enhanced linear scalability, helping users to leverage modern hardware capabilities. MySQL 5.6 RC includes additional enhancements and is a feature-complete aggregation of the Development Milestones Releases Oracle previously delivered to the MySQL community.
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05 Oct 2012
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Oracle Anounces Development Mileston Release of MySQL Cluster 7.3 [27915]
New Features Include Foreign Keys, Workload Optimization, Auto Discovery
A significant announcement at the recent MySQL Connect Conference concerned the Development Milestone Release (DMR) of MySQL Cluster 7.3, which is available now to the MySQL Community. MySQL Cluster is an open source, write-scalable, real-time, ACID-compliant transactional database for new generation web, cloud, social and mobile applications that now features native support for Foreign Keys. Oracle is also delivering early access to features under development including a new Node.js NoSQL API and a new MySQL Cluster Auto-Installer. MySQL Cluster now also features Workload Optimization and Auto-Discovery.
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27 Sep 2012
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OurSQL Hosts Appear on Meet the MySQL Experts [27813]
Offer Tips for Getting the Most out of MySQL Connect
MySQL Connect and OurSQL is the topic of discussion hosted by Keith Larson on Meet the MySQL Experts who are, in this episode, the hosts of the OurSQL podcast, Sheeri Cabral of Mozilla and Gerry Narvaja of Big Door. The trio review plans for the imminent MySQL Connect Conference. Cabral praised the quality of papers submitted in response for the conference call for papers. Both tout the top five sessions they plan to attend. Both also opined that the conference will be heavier in its focus on DBA-related matters rather than those directed at developers.
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20 Sep 2012
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MySQL Enterprise Monitor 2.3.12 [27716]
Release Now Available on My Oracle Support Site
MySQL Enterprise Monitor 2.3.12, a maintenance release that contains several new features and fixes a number of bugs, is now available for download on the My Oracle Support (MOS) web site, and, in approximately two weeks, will also be available via the Oracle Software Delivery Cloud, reports Andy Bang in a MySQL Enterprise Tools Blog. Complete details on the release can be found in the changelog.
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13 Sep 2012
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Interview about MySQL Connect [27610]
with Lenz Grimmer
Some year and a half since his responsibilities shifted from MySQL to his current assignment as a member of the Oracle Linux product management team, Lenz Grimmer nonetheless maintains a keen interest in MySQL. In an interview with Keith Larson, he discusses the MySQL Connect conference and applauds Oracle's decision to hand over the gathering to the MySQL Community. Grimmer said he regards MySQL 5.6 as a "very promising release," and recommends Oracle Linux as the ideal choice for running MySQL. He also highlights several MySQL Connect sessions that strike him as especially attractive.
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27 Aug 2012
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Blog Explains Parallel Backup Operations in MySQL Enterprise Backup v3.8.0 [27334]
Pipeline Processing Enables Parallelism, Speeds Backups
In a post on parallel backup in MySQL Enterprise Backup (MEB) v3.8.0 jothir (Hema Sridharan) explains how read/write operations are now performed in parallel using pipeline parallelism. The post explains that the pipelined parallel execution of read, process (if requested) and write operations is achieved by invoking multiple threads for different operations and usage of buffers. Each operation is split into segments, and threads operate on different segments from different iterations concurrently. Each segment is assigned one or more worker threads and in-queue buffers which store the work to be processed by that stage. The post provides an example.
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