MySQL Connector/Python 8 made the C Extension the default for the platform/Python version combinations supporting it. One thing that was missing from the C Extension implementation (unless you used the _mysql_connector module) was support for prepared statements. That has been …

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The X DevAPI allows you to work with JSON documents and SQL tables at the same time. Furthermore, the CRUD style API is more intuitive than SQL statements for some programmers. Either way, the X DevAPI allows you to mix …

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Maybe the biggest new feature in MySQL 8 is the new transaction data dictionary that improves the consistency of schema objects among other things. To further protect the data in the data dictionary, the data dictionary tables are hidden and …

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