I keep hearing good things about MySQL 5.6, so I decided to give it a try, even Ubuntu 12.04 LTS do not have launchpad repo for it. (atleast, as of July 10, 2013) Download & Install MySQL 5.6 deb package from official site You can get MySQL installers from https://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/#downloads I ran following command to get MySQL 5.6.14
