MySQL Information Indepth Newsletter October 2012

Welcome to the Oracle Information InDepth Newsletter: MySQL Edition For October 2012. We recently held a very successful first edition of MySQL Connect, where we shared exciting news with the MySQL community. NEWS Oracle Announces MySQL 5.6 Release Candidate New version of the world’s most popular open source database is faster and more scalable. Learn More Oracle Unveils First Development Milestone Release of MySQL Cluster 7.3 Delivers increased flexibility and simplicity. Learn More Oracle Releases New Commercial Extensions for MySQL Enterprise Edition Delivers advanced security and high-availability options. Learn More Back to Top MySQL CONNECT KEYNOTES AND PRESENTATIONS Watch the MySQL Connect keynotes online including The State of the Dolphin Featuring Oracle Chief Corporate Architect Edward Screven and MySQL Vice President of Engineering Tomas Ulin. MySQL Perspectives Featuring power users of MySQL who share their experiences and perspectives Jeremy Cole, DBA team manager, Twitter Daniel Austin, chief architect, PayPal Ash Kanagat, IT director, Verizon Wireless Shivinder Singh, database architect, Verizon Wireless Presentation Slides Access slides from MySQL Connect presentations in the content catalog. Back to Top UPCOMING WEBCASTS Getting the Best MySQL Performance in Your Products: Part III, Query Tuning Friday, October 26 9:00 a.m. PT In part III of our four-part performance series, Alexander Rubin gives you expert advice on how to tune queries in your product's MySQL embedded or bundled database. Register for the Webcast. MySQL on Windows: Reducing Costs with the New Migration Wizard Tuesday, October 30 10:30 a.m. CET Discover the new Microsoft SQL Server to MySQL migration Wizard. Register for the Webcast. MySQL Enterprise Audit: Policy-Based Auditing Compliance for Your MySQL Applications Tuesday, October 30 9:00 a.m. PT Learn how the MySQL Database provides easy to use, flexible, policy-based auditing solutions for new and existing MySQL applications. Register for the Webcast. Back to Top DEVELOPER ARTICLES What's New in the MySQL 5.6 Release Candidate New MySQL Cluster 7.3 Previews: Foreign Keys, NoSQL Node.js API, and Autotuned Clusters Back to Top VIDEO TUTORIALS MySQL Cluster Autoinstaller MySQL Replication Utilities Back to Top PRODUCT RELEASES MySQL Community Edition 5.6.7 Release Candidate Learn More Download MySQL Cluster 7.3 Development Milestone Release Learn More Download MySQL Connector/Python 1.0.7 Generally Available Learn More Download MySQL Workbench 5.2.44 Generally Available Learn More Download MySQL Connector/ODBC 5.2.2 Generally Available Learn More Download MySQL Enterprise Monitor 2.3.12 Generally Available Learn More Download (login required) Try the MySQL Enterprise Monitor MySQL Community Edition 5.5.28 Generally Available Learn More Download Back to Top WHITE PAPERS MySQL Enterprise Edition Product Guide MySQL Enterprise Edition includes the most comprehensive set of advanced features, management tools, and technical support to achieve the highest levels of MySQL scalability, security, reliability, and uptime. It reduces the risk, cost, and complexity in developing, deploying, and managing business-critical MySQL applications. Download the white paper. MySQL High Availability: Distributed Replication Block Device—Configuration and Deployment Guide There are many different ways to achieve high availability for MySQL. This guide details Distributed Replication Block Device (DRBD) along with Corosync and Pacemaker, offering users An end-to-end integrated stack of mature and proven open source technologies, fully supported by Oracle Automatic failover and recovery for service continuity Mirroring via synchronous replication, to ensure failover between nodes without the risk of losing committed transactions The ability to build high-availability clusters from commodity hardware, without the requirement for shared-storage Download the white paper. Back to Top CASE STUDIES Emblacom Oy Maximizes Database Availability and Reduces Costs with MySQL Cluster Carrier Grade Edition EmblaCom Oy provides turnkey and cloud-hosted voice solutions to mobile operators around the globe. The company needed to replace several database engines with a standardized, scalable, development-friendly database solution to maximize availability and cut costs. Discover why Emblacom chose MySQL Cluster Carrier Grade Edition. Read the case study. Verizon Wireless Supports Its Mission-Critical Employee Portal with MySQL Verizon Wireless, the #1 mobile carrier in the United States, operates the nation’s largest 3G and 4G LTE network, with the most subscribers (109 million) and the highest revenue (US$70.2 billion in 2011). Read the case study to understand why Verizon Wireless selected MySQL Enterprise Edition to power its mission-critical employee portal, and how the company achieved 1,400 percent performance improvement. Read the case study. Back to Top ON DEMAND WEBCASTS MySQL Utilities: Time-Saving Scripts for DBAs MySQL DBAs often manage dozens of MySQL databases. Tools that bundle a set of related tasks into a common utility can be a big time saver, allowing them spend more time improving performance and less time executing repeated tasks. The MySQL utilities library helps save time. The Webcast focuses on Use cases for each utility How to group utilities for even more usability How to modify utilities for your needs How to develop and contribute new utilities The Value of MySQL for SaaS Vendors In this technical Webcast, MySQL expert Mario Beck reviews the capabilities and features that make MySQL ideally suited for SaaS, including performance and scalability, high availability, fault tolerance and reliability, ease of use, and low cost. He also touches on some of the improvements in MySQL 5.6 such as NoSQL options. The Webcast includes examples of MySQL in SaaS and provides practical tips on how to get the most of MySQL in a SaaS environment. Back to Top BLOGS InnoDB Compression Improvements in MySQL 5.6 By Inaam Rana Performance Enhancement in Full-Text Search Query By Calvin Sun Helping to Reduce Page Compression Failures Rate By Vasil Dimov New Enhancements for InnoDB Memcached By Calvin Sun Foreign Keys in MySQL Cluster By Andrew Morgan Online ALTER TABLE in MySQL 5.6 By Marko Mäkelä My Thoughts About MySQL 5.6 By Sheeri Cabral MySQL Now Provides Support for Distributed Replication Block Device By Andrew Morgan MySQL Performance—Welcome 5.6 Release Candidate: The Best MySQL Ever By Dimitri Kravtchuk New in MySQL Enterprise Edition: Policy-Based Auditing! By Rob Young MySQL Oracle Connect 2012 Keynotes By Marco Tusa MySQL Connector/Python v1.0 Goes Generally Available! By Geert Vanderkelen New in MySQL Utilities Release 1.1.0 By Chuck Bell Binary Log Checksums in MySQL 5.6 By Baron Schwartz Big Data Is a Big Scam—Most of the Time By Sheeri Cabral A Sneak Peek Inside the Row-Based Replication in MySQL 5.6 By Rohit Kalhans Failover and Flexible Replication Topologies in MySQL 5.6 By Sven Sandberg Scalability Improvements in MySQL 5.6 By Mikael Ronström Parallel Slave in MySQL Replication By Andrei Elkin Back to Top UPCOMING EVENTS Scale with MySQL—London, England October 30 Scale with MySQL—Utrecht, the Netherlands November 7 Scale with MySQL—Bucharest, Romania November 13 Scale with MySQL—Dreieich, Germany November 14 Scale with MySQL—Madrid, Spain November 27 MySQL OEM/Embedded Tech Tour—Dublin, Ireland December 13 Find a MySQL event near you Find an Oracle event near you Back to Top TRAINING New: MySQL Performance Tuning on Demand You can now learn the essential skills to monitor, evaluate, and tune the performance of MySQL with the new training-on-demand format. The training is available for 90 days, 24/7, via streaming video. Plus, you can view the course on an iPad. New: MySQL for Developers Get the tools, skills, and in-depth knowledge required for writing applications with the MySQL database. Students perform lab work with Java and PHP, connect to MySQL databases, and execute queries and stored routines. New: MySQL for Developers with Developer Techniques Accelerated This is an accelerated course, covering eight days' worth of content in only five days. Students will learn the topics found in two courses: MySQL for Developers and MySQL Developer Techniques. New: MySQL Developer Techniques with Advanced Stored Procedures This is an accelerated course. Students will learn advanced topics from two courses: MySQL Developer Techniques and MySQL Advanced Stored Procedures, all in only five days. Pursuing your certification? Have you considered the new training on demand certification value packages? Now it is easier for you to pursue your certifications. Save up to 20 percent and get a free second chance to take the certification exam if you do not pass the first time. Choose from MySQL Database Administrator package MySQL Database Associate package Back to Top STAY IN TOUCH Receive the latest MySQL updates and interact with the MySQL Community. Read Oracle's MySQL Blog Listen to Oracle’s Meet the MySQL Experts Podcast Join MySQL on Facebook Follow MySQL on Twitter Back to Top DOWNLOADS Want to evaluate the advanced capabilities in MySQL Enterprise Edition? Download the MySQL Enterprise Edition trial. 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