Dear MySQL users,

The MySQL Windows Experience Team is proud to announce the release
of MySQL for Visual Studio 1.2.8.

This is a maintenance release for 1.2.x. It can be used for
production environments.

MySQL for Visual Studio is a product that includes all of the
Visual Studio integration functionality to create and manage
MySQL databases when developing .NET applications.

MySQL for Visual Studio is installed using the MySQL Installer
for Windows which comes in 2 versions:
* Full (386.6 MB) which includes a complete set of MySQL products
with their binaries included in the downloaded bundle.
* Web (1.7 MB – a network install) which will just pull MySQL
for Visual Studio over the web and install it when run.

You can download MySQL Installer from our official Downloads page at
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Dear MySQL Users,

A new GA (general availability) version of MySQL Connector/C++ has been made available: MySQL Connector/C++ 1.1.11 GA. The MySQL Connector/C++ provides a C++ API for connecting client applications to the MySQL Server 5.5 or newer.

You can download the production release at:

http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/cpp/1.1.html

MySQL Connector C++ (Commercial) will be available for download on the My Oracle Support (MOS) website. This release will be available on eDelivery (OSDC) in next month’s upload cycle.

The MySQL driver for C++ offers an easy to use API derived from JDBC 4.0. MySQL Workbench has used it successfully for years.

We have improved the driver since the last GA release. Please see the documentation and the CHANGES file in the source distribution for a detailed description of …

Dear MySQL users,

MySQL Connector/NET 6.10.7 is the fourth GA release with .NET Core
now supporting various connection-string options and MySQL 8.0 server
features.

To download MySQL Connector/NET 6.10.7 GA, see the “Generally Available
(GA) Releases” tab at http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/net/

Changes in MySQL Connector/NET 6.10.7 (2018-04-30, General Availability)

Functionality Added or Changed

* Connections made to MySQL 8.0 (up to and including
version 8.0.3) and compatibility with the new data dictionary are
now supported. For information about the data dictionary, see
MySQL Data Dictionary
(http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/data-dictionary.html).

* Support for the caching_sha2_password …

This post serves as a quick start guide on how to use the MySQL Document Store with the official Node.js connector. It mainly highlights how easy it is to leverage CRUD-style operations and getting up and running with the X DevAPI.

Before you jump in

Make sure you have Node.js 7.6.0 (or higher) and MySQL 8.0.11 (or higher) installed on your machine.

Setting up your Node.js project

First, using the command line, let’s start by creating a directory for our sample application.

$ mkdir myproject
$ cd myproject

Create a …

Dear MySQL users,

MySQL Connector/Python 8.0.11 is the first GA release version of the MySQL Connector Python 8.0 series. This series adds support for the new X DevAPI. The X DevAPI enables application developers to write code that combines the strengths of the relational and document models using a modern, NoSQL-like syntax that does not assume previous experience writing traditional SQL.

To learn more about how to write applications using the X DevAPI, see http://dev.mysql.com/doc/x-devapi-userguide/en/. For more information about how the X DevAPI is implemented in MySQL Connector/Python, and its usage, see http://dev.mysql.com/doc/dev/connector-python.

Please note that the X DevAPI requires MySQL Server version 5.7.12 or higher with the X Plugin enabled. For general …

By now you’ve read Mike Frank’s excellent introduction to the MySQL 8.0 release and it’s Document Store.  In that post Mike laid out the benefits of the new Document Store model and briefly outlined the different components involved.  While it’s fair to consider the Document Store as the first pillar of the new MySQL 8 Document story, we must identify the X DevAPI to be the second.  The post covers our motivation, goals, and overall design principles of this new API.

Motivation

Most of our connectors have not implemented their own API.  Rather, most of them implement externally defined interfaces.   Examples include our Connector/J that implements the JDBC standard, Connector/Net that implements the ADO.Net standard, and our Connector/ODBC.  None of these standards work well for a document-oriented database.  In …

As you may have heard, MySQL 8.0 is now officially GA, and it comes with a bunch of additional goodies. Among those is the brand new Connector/Node.js, which is the official MySQL driver for Node.js and, currently, the only one with support for the latest server versions and features (such as the MySQL document store).

Here’s a rundown of what’s available:

• Out-of-the box support for MySQL 8.0
• Document-store API as a first-class citizen
• TLS/SSL and SHA256 authentication
• Fluent API with support for flexible parameters
• Semantic methods to encode common CRUD operations
• Modern Node.js asynchronous interface based on Promises
• Abstractions for common database development tasks
• Transactions, savepoints and row locking

MySQL 8.0

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The MySQL Connector/Python Team is pleased to announce MySQL Connector/Python 8.0.11, the first GA 8.0 release series of the official MySQL driver for Python. This release introduces the first Python driver that adds full MySQL 8.0 support.

Document Store

MySQL 8.0 includes many improvements and new features, with Document Store being the biggest.

MySQL Document Store is schema-less with a flexible data structure storage system for documents. This removes the requirement for schema design, normalization, foreign keys, constrains, and data types.

The Document Store is accessible by the X DevAPI, an API that introduces a new modern and easy-to-learn way to …

MySQL 8.0 is now finally GA, bringing into play the powerful Document Store set of feature along with Connectors for many of the most popular languages! Also PHP is coming with it’s own extension designed to support all of the new exciting feature coming with this latest MySQL milestone.

The complete web documentation for the MySQL X DevAPI Extension for PHP is available here.

About Document Store.

The X DevAPI for PHP is an extension which allows the user to access MySQL with installed the X Plugin as a document store via the X DevAPI and the related underlying protocol.

A …

Dear MySQL users,

MySQL Connector/Net 8.0.11 is the first general availability release of
MySQL Connector/Net to add support for the new X DevAPI. The X DevAPI
enables application developers to write code that combines the strengths
of the relational and document models using a modern, NoSQL-like syntax
that does not assume previous experience writing traditional SQL.

To learn more about how to write applications using the X DevAPI, see
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/x-devapi-userguide/en/index.html. For more
information about how the X DevAPI is implemented in Connector/Net, see
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/dev/connector-net.

Please note that the X DevAPI requires at least MySQL Server version
5.7.12 or higher …