2011, A great year for MySQL in review...

I see so many posts on what happened to company X, product Y and dream Z that I couldn't resist the temptation to summarize this great year for MySQL. At the end of 2010, Oracle did an announcement we were all waiting for: MySQL 5.5 is GA! Another year has passed since then and it's time to reflect on what has been done.

I know this is a long post. I tried to rewrite it at least 10 times to make it shorter, but I couldn't condense the list. Hence, I wrote a summary in the beginning for those who don't want to read it all.

I believe that 2011 was an exceptional year for MySQL and I really enjoy being part of this team. I wish all of us a lot of success and fun in the years to come!

Summary:
Oracle released many MySQL 5.6 and MySQL Cluster 7.2 DMRs accompanied by new versions of MySQL Enterprise Monitor, MySQL Enterprise Backup, MySQL Workbench (and utilities), MySQL Proxy, MySQL Cluster Manager and Connectors.

The MySQL team unveiled new products like the MySQL Installer for Windows and Oracle VM Templates for MySQL. Besides, the MySQL Enterprise offering has been enriched with new commercial extensions. MySQL can now be leveraged as one of the Oracle data management solutions with new certifications and the integration with My Oracle Support increased the business value of customers' investment on Oracle technologies.

Additionally MySQL presented at major events across the world and won a few awards.

Free Webinar: MySQL Enterprise Backup - Online "Hot" Backup for MySQL (EN,IT) - January 20, 2011

Online backup has been one of the most requested features for MySQL. With MySQL Enterprise Backup, developers and DBAs have tools they need to safely and rapidly backup and restore their databases. In this webinar we will go into the advantages of Hot "Online" backups. We will show how MySQL Enterprise Backup supports full, incremental, partial, and compressed backups that allow you to perform consistent Point-in-Time Recovery, as well as saving both time and money.

In this Webinar you will learn:

• Backup Strategies & Methods
• Comparison of backup types for MySQL
• MySQL Enterprise Backup: Features
• MySQL Enterprise Backup Performance
• MySQL Enterprise Backup: Architecture
• MySQL Enterprise Backup: How it Works
• MySQL Enterprise Backup: Script Examples

Who
Mike Frank and Alex Roedling for the English session.
Luca Olivari for the Italian one.

When
Thursday, January 20, 2011: 09:00 Pacific time (English)
Thursday, January 20, 2011: 10:00 Central European time (Italian)

Register now: English, Italian.
On demand French and German versions available as well.

Related articles

• Introducing our "Hot" MySQL Enterprise Backup (blogs.oracle.com)

What's New in the MySQL Enterprise Spring 2010 Release

The MySQL Enterprise Spring 2010 Release includes key improvements designed to help you proactively optimize MySQL performance and identify potential issues before they can become costly outages or slowdowns. In this webinar we will explore the new features of the MySQL Enterprise Monitor 2.2 that are designed to save DBAs and Developers time and effort in keeping MySQL systems running at the highest levels of security, performance and availability. Join us and learn about:

• How the MySQL Connectors can now be used to collect, aggregate and monitor MySQL query performance data
• How to quickly identify which queries are performing full table scans
• How to isolate your worst performing queries based on total execution counts, time, data returned, date/time, query content, query type, and more
• How to identify and drill down into line-level source code for specific query executions
• New LDAP authentication model
• New Read Only User
• New Auto-Closing Events
• New MySQL Support Diagnostic Reports
• New Custom Rule/Graph Import and Export options
• New Faster Purging of Repository Data
• New Installation Options
• And more!

Here are the links for the various localized webinars:

English, Italian, German, French

Luca

What's New in the MySQL Enterprise Fall 2009 Release - EMEA & Italy

MySQL is proud to announce the MySQL Enterprise Fall 2009 Release!

The MySQL Enterprise Fall 2009 Release includes the MySQL Enterprise Monitor with the improved MySQL Query Analyzer - now with new correlation graphs for faster performance optimization. Join our webinar series and see a live demonstration of the new MySQL Enterprise Monitor and the improved Query Analyzer, hear about the new Advisor rules and support services and get live answers to your questions from our MySQL experts.

The "What's New in the MySQL Enterprise Fall 2009 Release - EMEA" web presentation will be delivered on Wednesday, September 16.

For those of you who speak Italian I'll deliver a local version of it on the Thursday, September 24 at 10am CET. Register and listen to it from the comfort of your home or office via this link:
"Novità della Versione autunno 2009 di MySQL Enterprise"

Happy learning and see you online.