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- January 12, 2021
MySQL Best of 2020
2020 was a very eventful year at MySQL. Now that we just started 2021, this is a great time to look back at everything we accomplished in 2020, from the anniversary celebrations to the year's best webinars, the best events, the best customer quotes, the best new product addition, the best animated videos, the best social media contribution, the best social media posts and of course, Larry’s best quote and many more. Here is our "Best of 2020," enjoy! (We'd love to see your favorites too. Feel free to share your favorites with us in the comment section)
1. 2020 was our MySQL 25th anniversary which we shared and celebrated with our friends from Java and PHP. Watch the animated video that celebrates 25 years of community contribution and loyal customers and users.
2. Introduction of MySQL Database Service with HeatWave. The launch generated over 100 news media articles. Read the full press release and Watch the official launch event
3. First Oracle Developer Live event fully dedicated to MySQL. The event generated over 12k attendees and many more viewers on YouTube. So, we’ll call it the best MySQL event of the year. You can visualize the 11 sessions online at: https://developer.oracle.com/developer-live/mysql/
4. Larry Ellison's awesome quote about the new MySQL Database Service introduction with HeatWave analytics engine. We’ll call it the best MySQL quote of the year.
5. Top 2020 cloud webinars
- Migrating from Amazon RDS to Oracle MySQL Database Service
- Business Benefits of Using MySQL Database Service with HeatWave
- Getting Started with MySQL Database Service plus HeatWave
- Migrating From On-Premises to Oracle MySQL Database Service
- Top Reasons to Use MySQL Database Service
- Using MySQL Database Service with Oracle Analytics Cloud
6. Top 2020 on-premises webinars
- Top Features that Makes MySQL 8.0 the Most Innovative Database of the Year
- Demoing Oracle MySQL Transparent Data Encryption
- Road to Success to MySQL
- Discover New Insights for Your High Availability Strategy
- Benefits of Using MySQL for SQL and NoSQL
7. Top 2020 cloud blog posts
- Introducing the MySQL Database Service
- Introducing MySQL Database Service and MySQL HeatWave Analytics Engine
- MySQL Database Service Analytics Engine and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure: Run applications and analytics with better performance, scale, and efficiency
- Migrate from on-premises MySQL to MySQL Database Service
- Announcing the MySQL Database Service support for E3 shapes
- Step by Step Guide to Take your MySQL Instance to the Cloud
- HeatWave for MySQL – Technical Deep Dive
- How to deploy a MySQL Database Service Instance with PHPMyAdmin
- Using MySQL Workbench with MySQL Database Service
- Manage MySQL Database Service (MDS) DB Systems with OCI CLI
- Deploy the Spring Boot framework on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure with MySQL Database Service.
- Deploy cloud native applications that use Oracle MySQL Database Service to the cloud.
- Deploying WordPress on OCI with MySQL Database Service: the easy way !
- Using MySQL Database Service for WordPress
- Testing MySQL Database Service without VPN
- Testing MySQL Database Service without VPN – part 2
8. Top 2020 on-premises blog posts
- New Release: MySQL 8.0.22 - Top Blog Posts
- MySQL Shell Dump & Load part 1: Demo!
- More Robust Network Partition Handling in Group Replication
- MySQL Shell and storing passwords
- From MySQL Group Replication to MySQL InnoDB Cluster
- MySQL: who’s filling my error log?
- MySQL Performance : Understanding InnoDB IO Internals & "Checkpointing"
- Three Bad MySQL Query Types You May Be Writing
- InnoDB Data Locking – Part 1 “Introduction”
- Upgrading from MySQL 5.7 to MySQL 8.0 Part I
- Upgrading from MySQL 5.7 to 8.0 on Windows
- Upgrading from MySQL 5.7 to MySQL 8.0 Part II
8. Top customer video testimonials
- SCSK achieves faster results (0:58)
- Square Enix sees performance gains (1:00)
- Credorax Selects MySQL EE for Increased Security
9. Best new feature from the MySQL Certification and Training team
- MySQL Explorer. Learn MySQL basics and earn the Explorer badge today!
10. Best Social Media contribution: MySQL Database Service in Forza Horizon 4
- Shumber Rivera from Mazatlan in Mexico made a video game version of the MySQL racing car. Congrats to Shumber for the most original social media contribution to MySQL. Watch his car race.
11. Coolest videos
- Ready to take MySQL Database Service for a spin?
- Introduction to MySQL Database Service
- Introduction to MySQL Enterprise Edition
- MySQL 25th Anniversary
12. 2020 Product Releases
13. Top white papers
- Guide to MySQL Database Service with Analytics Engine
- Guide to HeatWave: Real-time Analytics for MySQL Database Service
14. 2020 Top Customer Cases Studies
- University of Toronto (Canadian University)
- French Billet (French online ticket sales company)
- Seat24 (Swedish e-commerce travel group)
- Dhimyotis (French Certificate Authority)
- Flashnetworks (Israeli optimization solution provider)
- Globo.com (media group in Latin America)
- Mobitel (Sri Lanka's mobile communications provider)
- NJ India Invest (Indian financial services)
- K-Bank (the first Internet bank in Korea)
- BSE (Asia's number one stock exchange)
- Timon (Korean e-commerce company)
- SQUARE ENIX (Japanese gaming company)
- KDDI (Japanese telecom company)