This year’s MySQL Central at Oracle Open World was an exhilarating experience. In contrast to the previous year’s MySQL Connect events, MySQL have now got their own Central at the main Oracle Open World. In the previous years, we were always short on time and trying to get a lot of sessions into just two days was just to much. This time I could both present sessions, attend sessions by other users, and also to talk to people in the MySQL community: something that I really enjoy and also find very valuable to see where we should be heading.

This year, the “MySQL Fabric Team” representation on MySQL Central was me and Narayanan Venkateswaran, which is heading the sharding solution in MySQL Fabric. Together with the conference, we also released MySQL Fabric 1.5.2 as the GA release of MySQL Fabric 1.5 containing a few new features:

• Server …

In time for Oracle OpenWorld 2014, we released Connector/Python 2.0. We also released a labs release Connector/Python 2.1 and we have a new feature: a C Extension which uses Connector/C.

This C Extension is an optional, an alternative to the pure Python MySQL Client protocol implementation. One of the reasons to implement it was to improve performance in some situations, for example, when huge result sets are returned. Pure Python is still default, if C Extension is not available.

The following post will get your through downloading and installing the MySQL Connector/Python 2.1.0 labs release.

Requirements

• Windows users out of luck; the labs release only compiles on Linux, OSX …

In time for Oracle OpenWorld 2014, we released Connector/Python 2.0. We also released a labs release Connector/Python 2.1 and we have a new feature: a C Extension which uses Connector/C.

This C Extension is an optional, an alternative to the pure Python MySQL Client protocol implementation. One of the reasons to implement it was to improve performance in some situations, for example, when huge result sets are returned. Pure Python is still default, if C Extension is not available.

The following post will get your through downloading and installing the MySQL Connector/Python 2.1.0 labs release.

Requirements

• Windows users out of luck; the labs release only compiles on Linux, OSX and other …

Both MySQL Connector/Python 2.0.1 and 1.2.3 are now available through the Python Package Index or PyPI. Leaving the previous version available is probably a good idea as you can always go back if needed.

Note that we still have no files hosted at PyPI.

Both MySQL Connector/Python 2.0.1 and 1.2.3 are now available through the Python Package Index or PyPI. Leaving the previous version available is probably a good idea as you can always go back if needed.

Note that we still have no files hosted at PyPI.

We have relocated the MySQL Connector/Python repository on GitHub to the following location:

https://github.com/mysql/mysql-connector-python

The old location will redirect to the above URL.

No, we have not updated the README.txt or made something special for GitHub. I personally don’t mind what is currently showing on GitHub: it is readable, and it is correct. I still hope GitHub will make it easier to show something else, like asking which document to display and as what format.

MySQL Connector/Python v2.0 goes GA with version 2.0.1 GA. It is available for download from the MySQL Developer Zone! The previous post about 2.0 described what changed and what was added, here’s an overview:

• Incompatibilities
  • Supported Python: 2.6 and 2.7 and 3.3 and 3.4
  • Raw Cursors Return bytearray Objects
  • LOAD LOCAL DATA INFILE On by Default
• New features
  • New Cursors return dictionaries and named tuples
  • Options Files Support Added
• Packaging and support files removed
…

The MySQL Utilities Team is pleased to announce the general availability (GA) release of MySQL Utilities. This release includes a number of improvements for useabilty, stability, and a few enhancements. A complete list of all improvements can be found in our release_notes.
New Enhancements! This release represents a stable release of the product. Along with several defect patches, we also include the following enhancements.

• The mysqlserverclone utility now checks diskspace as a prerequisite to cloning the server.
• The --force option was removed from the mysqlfailover utility to remove confusion on its purpose.
• A warning is issued if the mysqld --skip-innodb option is used because this option is ignored in MySQL 5.7 and later.
• Utilities can correctly parse and display the PROXY …

Are you attending Oracle Open World? Would you like to know more about Oracle DevOps products for managing your MySQL servers? If so, stop by Tuesday, September 30 at 10:15 in the Hotel Nikko - Bay View and join us for a hands on lab (HOL9234) for MySQL Utilities and Connector/Python.

We will present the basics for getting started using Python to manage your MySQL servers. MySQL Utilities includes utilities for a wide variety of operations from displaying GRANT statements to setting up automatic failover for replication.

Check out the abstract for the HOL here.

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