Recent Posts by Michel Gerin

  Planning to attend Oracle Open World 2020 in London?  Make sure to: Visit our booth Join us at our evening reception Check out our MySQL sessions   MySQL Booth: Located in Zone 4 , stop by to meet the MySQL EMEA team and learn the latest about MySQL from our local experts.    MySQL Reception Feb 12, 2020 - 6:00 PM - 11:00 PM Tapa Tapa Warehouse K, Western Gateway ExCel West London E16 1DR Join us for a drink and a conversation on all things related to MySQL. Meet with Rich Mason,...

New Year 2020 and New Product Release.  The MySQL Development team just released the new MySQL 8.0.19 version.   The new generally available version can be downloaded at dev.mysql.com. In addition to bug fixes, a few new features made it into the release.  You can download 8.0.19 from dev.mysql.com or from the MySQL  Yum,  APT, or SUSE repositories. The source code is available at GitHub. You can find the full list of changes and bug fixes in the 8.0.19 Release Notes. Here are...

MySQL will be in Dubai from JAN13-15.   JAN 13 – 7PM-10PM – MySQL Meetup at Place: Dubai Internet City Learn more: https://www.meetup.com/MySQL-User-Group-U-A-E/events/267697018/   JAN 14-15 - Oracle Open World - Dubai Meet the MySQL team at our dedicated MySQL booth.  Attend two great MySQL sessions, including a case study with the Digital Solutions’s company Digital 14, which delivers cyber defense and security intelligence solutions with MySQL8.0.   OOW Dubai is located at...

What a great way to start the New Year!  I woke up this morning to find in the news that MySQL won the DBMS of the year award for 2019. “MySQL is the database management system that gained more popularity in our DB-Engines Ranking within the last year than any of the other 350 monitored systems. We thus declare MySQL as the DBMS of the Year 2019”, says DB-Engine. Getting the highest popularity gain among over 350 monitored systems is really impressive but this could only happen...

WORDS OF WISDOM: Like they say in Asia, nobody should use a fork.  Tradition even dictates to “chop” all your forks and “stick” to the original. Now, for those few of you, who by mistake, ventured to use a fork, Matthias from Pythian will show you the many reasons why you should always use the original and will demo the easy way to get back to using the real thing. Register now: http://ora.cl/zy5BH This webinar will cover the advantages and process for migrating from...

We just wrapped up what was a very exciting OOW 2019 - San Francisco for MySQL.  Our MySQL track included 29 sessions, a keynote with 2 customer testimonials (Mercari and WePay), 1 tutorial, 1 Hands-on lab, 1 Birds of a Feather, and our always fun and enjoyable MySQL Community Reception.   A BIG Thank You to the companies who came to share their experience and testimonial about how MySQL helps scale their company such as Facebook, JP Morgan Chase WePay, Credorax, Mercari,...