I read Wim Coekaerts post about the MySQL 5.6.20-4 this morning. I logged on to my server and did the following command as root.
# yum update -y
That’ll be the upgrade done then… 🙂
If you are using MySQL on Linux you can use the MySQL Repository for your distribution, rather than using the bundled MySQL version, to make sure you stay up to date with the latest and greatest. As long as you stay within a point release (5.6, 5.7 etc.) of the latest version, upgrades should really be as simple as a “yum update”.
I’ve started the ball rolling for the upgrades to the MySQL servers at work. That will take a bit longer because of the required testing. 🙂
Now I know that Oracle is a very different beast to MySQL or SQL Server, but the patches for MySQL and SQL Server are so much easier that patching Oracle, it’s not surprising people gravitate to them. I’m sure the pluggable database stuff in 12c is going to simplify things somewhat, but it’s still not going to be anywhere near as simple as this stuff.
Cheers
Tim…
