Ubuntu 14.04 LTS doesn't allow for MySQL 5.7 via the base repository. You must tell apt-get where to grab the latest version of MySQL. Here's a cheat sheet on what to do and the order you need to do it in. But before I get into how I upgraded MySQL on my Ubuntu server, I'm going to tell you why I needed 5.7. MySQL 5.7 has some new triggers I'd like to use for logging CRUD, good … [Read more...]