On Tuesday Steaphan Greene announced that all currently-pushed changes have now been rebased onto the newly-released upstream MySQL-5.6.24.
Read MoreIn MySQL Character encoding - part 1 we stated that the myriad of ways in which character encoding can be controlled can lead to many situations where your data may not be available as expected.
Read MoreBreaking and unbreaking your data Recently at FOSDEM, Maciej presented "Breaking and unbreaking your data", a presentation about the potential problems you can incur regarding character encoding whilst working with MySQL. In short, there are a myriad of places where character encoding can be controlled, which gives ample opportunity for the system to break and for text to become unrecoverable.
Read MoreWe have been looking at the WebScaleSQL project with great excitement. As with any new enhancements to the MySQL world, we need to test extensively to ensure we can give PSCE customers the best advice possible. Since this project is source only, we decided to add WebScaleSQL builds to our repo, so we could examine the changes being introduced by all the different collaborators.
Read MoreQualys announced they had found an exploit in one of the Linux core libraries - glibc - using a buffer overflow technique in gethostbyname(). They have developed a proof-of-concept in which simply sending a specially created e-mail to a mail server enabled them to create a remote shell to the Linux machine. According to Qualys, "This bypasses all existing protections (like ASLR, PIE and NX) on both 32-bit and 64-bit systems.". How does it affect MySQL servers? Read on!
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