What’s New in MySQL 5.6 – Part 1: Overview
From the webpage:
MySQL 5.6 builds on Oracle’s investment in MySQL by adding improvements to Performance, InnoDB, Replication, Instrumentation and flexibility with NoSQL (Not Only SQL) access. In the first session of this 5-part Webinar series, we’ll cover the highlights of those enhancements to help you begin the development and testing efforts around the new features and improvements that are now available in the latest MySQL 5.6 Development Milestone and MySQL Labs releases.
OK, I’ll ‘fess up, I haven’t kept up with MySQL like I did when I was a sysadmin and running it everyday in a production environment. So, maybe its time to do some catching up.
Besides, when you read:
We will also explore how you can now use MySQL 5.6 as a “Not Only SQL” data source for high performance key-value operations by leveraging the new Memcached Plug-in to InnoDB, running simultaneously with SQL for more complex queries, all across the same data set.
“…SQL for more complex queries,…” you almost have to look. 😉
So, get up early tomorrow and throw a recent copy of MySQL on a box.