IPv6 support in Group Replication
In 8.0.14, we add to Group Replication (GR) the ability to use IPv6 in all of its network-related configuration parameters. This means that now you can take advantage of this technology and “rock” those billion addresses using MySQL Group Replication. What’s New When you operate a...

MySQL Meetup in Dubai
We are happy to invite you to the upcoming MySQL Meetup in Dubai. Please find details below: Date: Wednesday, February 13, 2019 Time: 7:30-9:30 pm Place: Oracle Office Building 6 Internet City, Room Jumeirah (map) Agenda: MySQL Clustering and how to make the database "High...

Where you can find MySQL in February & March 2019!
We continue with announcing the upcoming shows & conferences where you can find MySQL Community or MySQL Experts at. Please find the list of events with details below.  February 2019: FOSDEM 2019, Brussels, Belgium, February 1& 2-3, 2019 MySQL is again part of FOSDEM. Again...

Fail early, fail fast – preventing stale reads on a member that dropped out of the group!
In Group Replication, starting with MySQL 8.0.12, the user is able to specify the behavior for members that enter an error state. The member can either shoot itself on the head or set itself to read-only. But what does that mean in practice?…

Support for LATERAL derived tables added to MySQL 8.0.14
In the just-released MySQL 8.0.14 I added a feature called LATERAL derived tables. The manual describes the syntax and has examples of how the feature can be used to find greatest values in tables. In the present post I’m going to consider a different problem solved by LATERAL: let’s...

binlog-row-event-max-size system variable in MySQL 8.0.14
As you may have noticed by now, we are continuously improving and enhancing the experience of managing a MySQL server. Furthermore, we have also released tools, such as MySQL shell, that make advanced and distributed setups like creating, deploying, and running clusters of InnoDB instances,...

Server version in the binary log
Replication topologies, whether master-slave or group replication setups, may be composed of servers using different MySQL versions. In MySQL 8.0.14, each transaction’s immediate and original server versions are now visible in the binary log as session variables. These two new variables,...

The complete list of new features in MySQL 8.0
There are over 250 new features in MySQL 8.0. The MySQL Manual is very good, but verbose. This is a list of new features in short bullet form. We have tried very hard to make sure each feature is only mentioned once.…