MySQL User Camp is a forum where MySQL Engineers and community users come together to connect, collaborate, and share knowledge. This year’s first MySQL User Camp was held on 27th April 2018, at Oracle India Pvt Ltd, Kalyani Magnum Infotech Park, Bangalore with an excellent turnout of 60 attendees. The event began with a welcome note from Balasubramanian Kandasamy, (Principal Member... Read More
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Give me a MySQL and Make it Snappy!
MySQL is available for a huge variety of platforms, in a wide range of packaging formats and through many channels. Part of our mission is to keep up with the times by making sure that all MySQL products are available where people expect and need them to be. As part of that we have invested a lot of work in modernizing our Linux packaging and distribution, improving our story on Windows and... Read More
MySQL User Camp, Bangalore – 26th June, 2015
MySQL User Camp Bangalore, organized on 26th June, 2015, was a huge success with an excellent turnout of 49 attendees. We got many users from different companies, like Flipkart, Snapdeal, CTS, Capgemini, Yahoo, VMware, HCL, Datavail, Bosch, Rakuten and more. The event started on time with a welcome speech by Balasubramanian Kandasamy, (Principal Member Technical Staff, MySQL Release... Read More
MySQL Repos for Debian 8
Hi, everyone. Just a quick note here to let you all know that we’ve just added Debian 8 support to our Apt repos. We have the latest MySQL Server 5.6 ready for you, as well as the latest 5.7 Development Milestone, and more of our products for Debian 8 are in our QA pipeline as we speak. Head over to the Apt repo page on dev.mysql.com, and we should have you up and running in next to no... Read More
MySQL in Dockerland
Around 18 months ago, we launched the first MySQL Linux package repos, marking an important milestone in our efforts to modernize and improve the way we package and deliver MySQL products to our user community. MySQL product development had gone through radical improvements in terms of quality, dependability and sheer output, but the way we delivered those products had quite frankly fallen way... Read More
They’re Here: Official MySQL Repos for Debian and Ubuntu
As we’ve hinted at for some time now, we have been busy preparing some good stuff for our Debian and Ubuntu users. And today we’re delighted to launch our own official MySQL apt repos for Debian and Ubuntu. After working closely with the Debian and Ubuntu communities to make sure that the native MySQL packages in those distros work really well, we have now taken all the valuable... Read More
Repos and Distros: Upstream and Downstream
When we launched the official MySQL repos back in October, we wanted to achieve a number of things: First, we closed a gaping hole in our distribution on Linux. Some Linux distros do not ship all the MySQL products, and not everyone is able to or always wants to use the distro packages. And the distros naturally focus on stable releases, while some users want to test development releases from... Read More
Utilities! Fresh Utilities! Get Your Utilities Here!
MySQL Utilities is one of those gems that every MySQL user should know about. They simplify and help automate a wide range of tasks and activities that everyone from casual users to seasoned DBAs may need to carry out on their MySQL setup from time to time, all the way from cloning users, copying databases and exporting data to managing replication topologies and failover. This has been on our... Read More
Giving Red Hat 7 Users a Choice
Red Hat recently released a beta of what will become the next version of their Enterprise Linux. As many people have noticed, Red Hat opted for a forked version of MySQL 5.5 (which GA’d 3 years ago). MySQL has come a long way in those three years, and MySQL 5.6 was released just under a year ago. It has much improved performance, it is easier to manage and it has a boatload of new and... Read More
Fedora 20 Is Here: We Support It From Day One
Today, we congratulate the Fedora community on their newest release. We believe it is a great platform to run the real, official MySQL on, and today we are adding Fedora 20 support in our Yum repos. We have the latest MySQL Server 5.6, the latest 5.7 development release and Connector ODBC ready for you on Fedora 20. Workbench is coming, it just needs a little bit of tweaking first. In addition,... Read More