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MySQL 5.6.23 Community Release Notes

Thank you to the MySQL Community, on behalf of the MySQL team @ Oracle. Your bug reports, testcases and patches have helped create a better MySQL 5.6.23. In particular: Thank you to Inaam Rana for...

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MySQL 5.6.24 Community Release Notes

Thank you to the MySQL Community, on behalf of the MySQL team @ Oracle. Your bug reports, testcases and patches have helped create a better MySQL 5.6.24. In particular: Thank you to Simon Mudd for...

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A quick update on our native Data Dictionary

In July 2014, I wrote that we were working on a new native InnoDB data dictionary to replace MySQL's legacy frm files. This is quite possibly the largest internals change to MySQL in modern history,...

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MySQL is 20 years old tomorrow!

According to Wikipedia, the initial release of MySQL was 23 May 1995. This places it at 20 years old young tomorrow. 2015 is actually a year of anniversaries. As well as MySQL reaching the big two-oh,...

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SHOW ENGINE INNODB MUTEX is back!

We received feedback from a number of users in the MySQL community that the command SHOW ENGINE INNODB MUTEX remains useful in a number of scenarios. We listened, and the command is scheduled to make a...

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An update on GROUP BY implicit sort

In the MySQL team, we have been planning for some time to remove the implicit sorting that is provided by GROUP BY. In doing so, we will make a number of existing queries faster (by no longer requiring...

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Plan to deprecate PROCEDURE ANALYSE

In the MySQL team, we have been refactoring the SQL parser to be more maintainable. Gleb Shchepa lists the goals of this project in more details on the MySQL Server Team blog. As part of this, we have...

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Proposal to deprecate MySQL INTEGER display width and ZEROFILL

In the MySQL team we are currently discussing if we should deprecate the integer display width in numeric types. For example: CREATE TABLE my_table ( id INT(11) NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY auto_increment );...

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Proposal to deprecate INSERT and REPLACE alternative syntax

In the MySQL team we are currently considering a proposal to deprecate a number of alternative syntax uses with the INSERT and REPLACE commands. To provide examples: CREATE TABLE `city` ( `ID` int(11)...

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MySQL 5.7.8 - Now featuring super_read_only and disabled_storage_engines

I wanted to highlight two new features that are making their way into MySQL 5.7 via the not-yet-released 5.7.8-rc2: A new system variable super_read_only allows a more strict definition of 'read-only'...

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The MySQL 5.7 Optimizer Challenge

In the MySQL team, we have been working really hard on refactoring the optimizer and improving the cost model. The hacks of storage engines lying to the optimizer are being rolled back, and your...

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MySQL 5.7.8 - mysqlpump caveat

MySQL 5.7.8-rc2 was released today, and features a new server utility called mysqlpump. This utility contains a number of major improvements over mysqldump including: Parallel processing of databases,...

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Proposal to extend binary operators in MySQL

In order to make it easier to work with data stored as binary strings (BINARY/VARBINARY) we are considering extending the &,|,^,~,> operators, to accept any-size binary strings and return binary...

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A followup on show_compatibility_56

Giuseppe and Shlomi both blogged on one of the recent changes introduced to MySQL 5.7.8-rc, where the setting show_compatibility_56 is now set OFF by default. Both raise very good points. Here is how...

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What would you like to see in MySQL 5.8?

By my count MySQL 5.7 added over 150 new features, and some of my favourite ones are based on community ideas and contributions: Statement Timeout (contributed by Davi Arnaut) Disabled Storage Engines...

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MySQL Community Reception at Oracle OpenWorld

If you are in San Francisco on October 27, 2015, please come along to our MySQL team reception at Jillian's at Metreon. You do not require an Oracle OpenWorld pass to attend, all we ask is that you...

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Moving to Product Management & European Tour

Welcome all to 2016. Just a quick update to say that I'm moving teams inside Oracle. My new position is as Product Manager for the MySQL Server This is a great opportunity for me to be more directly...

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