To be honest, the comparison between the two MySQL distributions is not something that excited me a lot. Mainly because from my MySQL memories, I knew that there is not a real difference between the two distributions when talking about the code base.To my knowledge the differences in the enterprise version are in the additional […]

Securing a database includes securing sensitive items such as keys, passphrases, and more. Its important to protect from misuse by using cryptography and access controls to limit usage by only the components that use them or admins that require them.  MySQL Enterprise Keyring security component provides integrated Key Management with secure vaults. 

Starting with MySQL Enterprise Edition 8.0.22, you can manage your MySQL encryption keys for TDE and more using the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Vault. OCI Vault lets you securely store, manage, and audit arbitrary keys and …

MySQL Enterprise Data Masking and De-Identification hides sensitive information by replacing real values with substitutes in order to protect sensitive data while they are still look real and consistent.

The MySQL Enterprise Tools Development Team is pleased to announce the maintenance release of MySQL Enterprise Monitor 8.0.14 is now available for download on the My Oracle Support (MOS) web site. It will also be available for download via the Oracle Software Delivery Cloud in a few days.

If you are not familiar with MySQL Enterprise Monitor, it is the best-in-class tool for monitoring and management of your MySQL assets and is part of MySQL Enterprise Edition and MySQL Cluster Carrier Grade Edition subscriptions. You are invited to give it a try using our 30-day free customer trial. Go to http://www.mysql.com/trials, or contact Sales at http://www.mysql.com/about/contact. …

The old adage that time is money does not give any hints about buying more time. A MySQL Enterprise subscription does allow you to purchase time. Your technical staff has to do more with less time than ever before and operational delays add up extremely quickly.  Having the right tools when things go critical means staff can do what they need to do, when they need to do it.

So how does MySQL Enterprise Edition buy you more time?

When things inevitably go wrong, searching for free answers to problems on web sites with many dubious or flat out wrong solutions is a waste of precious time.  Informational websites like are fine sources of general information for researching technical issues but not when mission critical services are degraded or down.  An online recommendation to do what very large Enterprise Company does may not make sense for your company if you are not …

The MySQL Enterprise Tools Development Team is pleased to announce the maintenance release of MySQL Enterprise Monitor 8.0.3 is now available for download on the My Oracle Support (MOS) web site. It will also be available for download via the Oracle Software Delivery Cloud in a few days.

If you are not familiar with MySQL Enterprise Monitor, it is the best-in-class tool for monitoring and management of your MySQL assets and is part of MySQL Enterprise Edition and MySQL Cluster Carrier Grade Edition subscriptions. You are invited to give it a try using our 30-day free customer trial. Go to http://www.mysql.com/trials, or contact Sales at http://www.mysql.com/about/contact. …

Recently our team was tasked to implement MySQL 8.0 in production for a client. While MySQL 8.0 is looking very promising and has a lot of cool new features and revamped old features, it’s still pretty young. The MySQL development team is working very hard on stabilizing the product but, reading the latest release notes for version 8.0.12, it is still very much a bugfix release and not something you will want to put in production immediately. Also, given the fact that a lot of tools such as Percona Xtrabackup do not support MySQL 8.0 yet, we were a bit reluctant to proceed with this idea. But … the client had a strong use case to make use of roles and resource groups and we like challenges so we decided to give it a go.

Another use case that was presented is the one where …

We are pleased to announce that MySQL Enterprise Monitor 8.0.1 is now available for download on the My Oracle Support (MOS) web site. It will also be available for download via the Oracle Software Delivery Cloud in a few days. MySQL Enterprise Monitor is the best-in-class tool for monitoring and management of your MySQL assets and is included with your MySQL Enterprise Edition and MySQL Enterprise Carrier Grade subscriptions.

You can find more information on the contents of this release in the change log.

Highlights of MySQL Enterprise Monitor 8.0 include:

• MySQL Enterprise Monitor 8.0 supports monitoring MySQL Server 8.0.11 and later. You can also use MySQL Server 8.0 as an external data repository for MySQL Enterprise Monitor 8.0.
• Significant improvements have been made to the performance and user …

We are pleased to announce that MySQL Enterprise Monitor 4.0.5 is now available for download on the My Oracle Support (MOS) web site. This is a maintenance release that includes a few new features and fixes a number of bugs. You can find more information on the contents of this release in the change log.

You will find binaries for the new release on My Oracle Support. Choose the "Patches & Updates" tab, and then choose the "Product or Family (Advanced Search)" side tab in the "Patch Search" portlet.

Important: MySQL Enterprise Monitor (MEM) 8.0 offers many significant improvements over MEM 3.4 and 4.0 and we highly recommend that you consider upgrading. More information on MEM 8.0 is available here:

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We are pleased to announce that MySQL Enterprise Monitor 3.4.8 is now available for download on the My Oracle Support (MOS) web site. This is a maintenance release that includes a few new features and fixes a number of bugs. You can find more information on the contents of this release in the change log.

You will find binaries for the new release on My Oracle Support. Choose the "Patches & Updates" tab, and then choose the "Product or Family (Advanced Search)" side tab in the "Patch Search" portlet.

Important: MySQL Enterprise Monitor (MEM) 8.0 offers many significant improvements over MEM 3.4 and 4.0 and we highly recommend that you consider upgrading. More information on MEM 8.0 is available here:

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