(Paul Namuag) Streaming Replication is a new feature which was introduced with the 4.0 release of Galera Cluster. Galera uses replication synchronously across the entire cluster, but before this release write-sets greater than 2GB were not supported.

(Tony Darnell) MySQL introduced a JSON data type in version 5.7, and expanded the functionality in version 8.0.

(Robert Agar) MySQL is an extremely popular open-source database platform originally developed by Oracle. It currently is the second most popular database management system in the world, only trailing Oracle’s proprietary offering.

(Mikael Ronstrom) In MySQL Cluster 8.0.18 we have developed MySQL Cluster Auto Installer to also support installing NDB 🙂

(Peter Zaitsev) MySQL Workbench is a great multi-purpose GUI tool for MySQL, which I think is not marketed enough by the MySQL team and is not appreciated enough by the community for what it can do.

(Mikael Ronstrom) We have a new version of the MySQL Cluster Auto Installer. I have prepared 3 Youtube videos that shows how to make use of the Auto Installer to install and set up a cluster on your local machine.

(Frederic Descamps) Yesterday, Bhuvanesh published an article about how to verify the difference between allocated diskspace for a tablespace and the the data in it.

(Bhuvanesh R) Its not the new term for DBAs. MySQL has an awesome parameter innodb-file-per-tables allows MySQL to create separate files for each tables. This helped a lot to manage the disk space in more efficient way.

(Jesper Krogh) In my blog series about external contributions to MySQL 8 we have reached version 8.0.18 which was released Monday 14 October 2019. Again the community has contributed to make MySQL better.

(Aníbal Pinto) In the process of enhancing MySQL replication with new features for our users, we also improve the internals. A lot of work goes also to modernize the codebase and make it easier to maintain and obviously extend as well.