Percona Live - Keynote: How MySQL can thrive in the world of massive data hype
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Thursday, 25 April 2013 03:04




Corporate Contributor of the Year 2013
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Wednesday, 24 April 2013 14:23




Installing and administering Tungsten Replicator - Part 2 : advanced
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Monday, 22 April 2013 03:30

Switching rolesTo get a taste of the power of Tungsten Replicator, we will show how to switch roles. This is a controlled operation (as opposed to fail-over), where we can decide when to switch and which nodes are involved.In our topology, host1 is the master, and we have three slaves. We can either ask for a switch and let the script select the first available slave, or tell the script which slav...


Installing and Administering Tungsten Replicator - Part 1 - basics
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Monday, 22 April 2013 03:28

IntroTungsten Replicator (http://tungsten-replicator.org) is an open source tool that does high performance replication across database servers. It was designed to replace MySQL replication, although it also supports replication from and to Oracle and other systems. In this article, we will only cover MySQL replication, both simple and multi-master. Preparing for installation To follow the materia...


Book review: Instant InnoDB
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Friday, 19 April 2013 14:39

Instant Innodb (http://www.packtpub.com/innodb-quick-reference-guide/book), by Matt Reid This book does a good job of explaining the InnoDB internals. I have found particularly useful the section where it describe in detail all the server variables affecting InnoDB. Although these variables are also in the MySQL manual, some of them have never been explained to me as thoroughly as this book as ...


Continuent Tungsten at SkySQL & Cloud Database Solutions Day, Friday 4/26
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Wednesday, 17 April 2013 09:27




Tungsten University: Geographically Distributed Multi-Master MySQL Clusters
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Thursday, 11 April 2013 08:30




Drew Blas of Chargify on Continuent Tungsten
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Wednesday, 10 April 2013 04:55




See You at Percona Live 2013!
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Thursday, 28 March 2013 09:34

Percona Live 2013 (http://www.percona.com/live/mysql-conference-2013) is coming up fast. This is hands-down the best MySQL conference of the year, attended by a lot of people I really respect. Check the speaker list (http://www.percona.com/live/mysql-conference-2013/program/speakers) if you need some of their names. I will also be doing two talks myself. 9am Wednesday 24 April - Keynote: How ...


Multi-master data conflicts - Part 2: dealing with conflicts
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Wednesday, 27 March 2013 05:00

In the first part of this article (http://datacharmer.blogspot.com/2013/03/multi-master-data-conflicts-part-1.html) we examined the types of conflicts and their causes. In this part, we will analyse some of the methods available to deal with conflicts. Pessimistic locking (or: conflicts won't happen)Applicability: synchronous clusters with 2pcWe've covered this topic in the previous article, but ...