As a collaboration between PHP North West (PHPNW) and North West Drupal user Group (NWDUG) we will be hosting a talk from Morgan Tocker about MySQL 5.7 and JSON. The talk will last about 40-60 minutes.

Morgan rejoined the MySQL team at Oracle in 2013 as MySQL Community Manager, having previously worked for MySQL and Sun Microsystems. He blogs from tocker.ca, and especially likes the new features in MySQL that make operations life easier.

MySQL 5.7 + JSON
With the newly added JSON support in MySQL, you can combine the flexibility of NoSQL with the strength of a relational database. In this session, Morgan will explain the new JSON datatype, and the new set of functions for handling JSON documents, available storage and indexing options. In addition, he will present benchmarks showing how much one can expect from the MySQL server in different use case scenarios.