Recent Posts by Michel Gerin

Oracle Live. On Wednesday, December 2, the world’s most popular open source database takes a leap forward in the cloud. Edward Screven, Oracle’s chief corporate architect, will share MySQL innovation that enables you to reduce cost and complexity while accelerating business insights.  We have really exciting news for MySQL users, including some amazing testimonials from early adopters who will share their experiences. And, yes of course, there will be benchmarks! Join us on this...

MySQL 8.0.22 introduces many new improvements and updates, many of which deserve their own blog post for a deep dive into the new features.  Among the notable changes are: Prepared Statements, SHOW PROCESSLIST, TIMESTAMP, Read Only Schema, Error Log, User Management, Optimizer, Replication, Keyring, Router, and more.   Here are the MySQL 8.0.22 top blog posts: Server The MySQL 8.0.22 Maintenance Release is Generally Available Announcing MySQL Server 8.0.22, 5.7.32 and 5.6.50 Shell M...

Watch our MySQL Database Service racing car compete in Forza Horizon 4, the racing car video game developed by Playground Games and published by Microsoft Studios.  Special thanks go to Shumber Rivera from Mazatlan in Mexico.  Shumber is a MySQL fan and an avid car racer on Forza Horizon 4.  So, when he approached us with his idea of reproducing our real McLaren MySQL Database Service racing car for a video game racing car, we immediately thought that it was a cool idea. Shumber...

Join us on OCT 13 or 15 for some of the best MySQL sessions from the most renown MySQL experts. This is your opportunity to discover the latest developments in MySQL 8.0 and learn about the new MySQL Database Service directly from the software engineering team. Get advice from experienced developers and DBAs who use MySQL to power some of the world’s most well-known web properties. x2 days: 18 speakers. 10 sessions. 1 Panel discussion. 2 Hands-on labs. Register now: https://deve...

We have scheduled a series of several live webinars about MySQL Database Service, the only service 100% developed, managed and supported by the MySQL Team.   Our webinars will cover a full introduction to the new service.  We will discuss the business benefits of using the MySQL Database Service compared to on-premises and vs services of “forked” cloud versions of MySQL.  We will show you how to migrate your existing database from on-premises directly into the new service.  We...

As with any new releases, MySQL 8.0.21 introduces many new improvements and updates, many of which deserve their own blog post for a deep dive into the new features.  Among the notable changes are: Account Management Notes, JSON Notes, Authentication Notes and changes related to InnoDB, Optimizer, Group Replication, and more. Here are the MySQL 8.0.21 top blog posts: Server: - The MySQL 8.0.21 Maintenance Release is Generally Available - MySQL 8.0 – Who stopped mysqld and how...

MySQL Day Virtual Event Join us on July 29th, 2020 (8AM - 1PM PST) for a virtual event about why and how to upgrade to MySQL 8.0.  Learn the key reasons you should upgrade to 8.0. Discover the best practices developed by our support team based on their experience working directly with customers.  Get tips and techniques from our community evangelists.  Find out why the University of California at Irvine chose to upgrade to 8.0, learn about their process, their experience, and...

Webinar date: July 8th, 2020 @9AM PST Webinar title: Learn How Credorax is Increasing its SaaS Application Security with MySQL EE.   Speakers: Mike Frank, MySQL Product Management Director Greg Paks, VP R&D and Operations IT  for Credorax Register now In this webinar, you will learn how Credorax leverages MySQL EE security features for their SaaS platform. Credorax’s SaaS application handles global and domestic domestic payments for merchants and partners, so security is a top...

Day: Wednesday, June 3, 2020 Time: 10:00am – 12:00pm PST Register: https://go.oracle.com/LP=92944?elqCampaignId=247342 Join our virtual conference organized by WePay, a JP Morgan and Chase company, and MySQL.  Learn about Waltz - a distributed write-ahead log, some great high availability architectures, Microservices and the power of using NoSQL and SQL with the same database. Talk 1: Introduction to Waltz: A Distributed Write-Ahead Log Talk 2: MySQL High Availability Architectures T...