DBA and Developer Guide to MySQL_MySQL

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Written by Diana Gray, Principal Curriculum Product Manager, Oracle University

MySQL is the most trusted and depended-on open source database platform in use today. 9 out of the 10 most popular and highly-trafficked websites in the world rely on MySQL, primarily due to its ubiquity across heterogeneous platform and application stacks.

MySQL is well-known for its performance, reliability and ease of use. MySQL 5.6 builds on the momentum by delivering across the board improvements that enable innovative DBA and developers to create and deploy the next generation of web, embedded and Cloud/SaaS/DaaS applications on the latest generation of development frameworks and hardware platforms.

Building the Next Generation of Web Applications and Services

At a glance, MySQL 5.6 is simply a better MySQL, with improvements that enhance every functional area of the database kernel, including:

• Improved InnoDB storage engine forbetter transactional throughput.
• Improved Optimizer forbetter query execution times and diagnostics.
• Better application availability withonline DDL/schemachanges.
• Better developer agility withNoSQL Access, with Memcached API to InnoDB.
• Improved replication for high performance,self-healingdistributed deployments.
• Improved security forworry-free application deployments.
• Improved performance schema forbetter instrumentation.

MySQL Course and Certification Exam Releases

The MySQL for Database Administrator andMySQL for Developers course releases are aligned with newly GA release of MySQL 5.6 Developer and MySQL 5.6 Database Administrator OCP certification exams.

Invest in hands-on training and study to pass certification exams that will validate your expertise.