Starting with MySQL 5.5 it is possible to configure semi-synchronous replication. As you probably know, MySQL replication is asynchronous by default. Asynchronous replication means that events/transactions applied on one server are not immediately applied on the other one.

MySQL 5.6 offers improved partition maintenance through "partition exchange". Even if not yet available, dbi services performed some tests on the MySQL Community Edition 5.6.2 m5 release (still under development).

Nowadays, MySQL Databases are encapsulated into many mission critical software solutions. Lots of companies host one or many MySQL databases in their data center, sometimes even without knowing it except when the MySQL service is not available anymore. In order to increase the service availability, it is mandatory to have a monitoring solution. Regardless of if you are using MySQL Server, MySQL replication or cluster, the Oracle/MySQL monitoring solution is called MySQL Enterprise Monitor.

Are you often trying to find functionalities or error codes in Oracle 9iR2, 10gR2, 11gR2, or MySQL documentation? Of course, each time you are looking for this documentation you are finding unofficial documentation which is never corresponding to the version you are looking for...

MySQL Workbench provides several necessary tools in order to manage a MySQL environment. MySQL Workbench 5.2 is available for Windows, Mac, and Linux platforms. It encapsulates three main functionalities: SQL Development, Data Modeling, and Server Administration.