This post was initially published on Oracle’s blog; this is a slightly modified version. For today’s retrospective post on the MySQL Advent Calendar 2024, we will examine the MySQL Certifications. MySQL AB released certifications in 2002 as you can see…
This post was initially published on Oracle’s blog; this is a slightly modified version. Did you know that in previous versions of MySQL, there were some “hidden” functions that not many users knew about? One of them disappeared on the…
This post was initially published on Oracle’s blog, this is a slightly modified version. The MySQL logo, representing the popular open-source relational database management system and recognizable by its dual colors, blue and orange, didn’t change much over time after…
The preFOSDEM MySQL Belgian Days 2025 will occur at the usual place (ICAB Incubator, Belgium, 1040 Bruxelles) on Thursday, January 30th, and Friday, January 31st, just before FOSDEM. Again this year, we will have the chance to have incredible sessions…
Let’s stay a bit longer with MySQL 3.2x to advance the MySQL Retrospective in anticipation of the 30th Anniversary. The idea of this article was suggested to me by Daniël van Eeden. Did you know that in the early days,…
To further advance the MySQL Retrospective in anticipation of the 30th Anniversary, today, let’s discuss the very first version of MySQL that became availble to a wide audient though the popular InfoMagic distribution: MySQL 3.20! In 1997, InfoMagic incorporated MySQL…
Last month we released MySQL 9.1, the latest Innovation Release. Of course, we released bug fixes for 8.0 and 8.4 LTS but in this post, I focus on the newest release. Within these releases, we included patches and code received…
As announced yesterday, the MySQL Devroom is back at FOSDEM! For people preparing for their travel to Belgium, we want to announce that the MySQL Belgian Days fringe event will be held on the Thursday and Friday before FOSDEM. This…
We are pleased to announce the Call for Participation (CfP) for the FOSDEM 2025 MySQL Devroom. The Devroom will be held on February 2 (Sunday), 2025 in Brussels, Belgium. The submission deadline for talk proposals is December 1, 2024. FOSDEM…
Some users, myself included, have noticed that their MySQL error log contains many lines like this one: Where does that error come from? The error MY-010914 is part of the Server Network issues like: Those are usually more problematic than…
We saw in the previous post how we can deal with data stored in the new VECTOR datatype that was released with MySQL 9.0. We implemented the 4 basic mathematical operations between two vectors. To do so we created JavaScript…
MySQL 9.0.0 has brought the VECTOR datatype to your favorite Open Source Database. There are already some functions available to deal with those vectors: This post will show how to deal with vectors and create our own functions to create…
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