| Multi-master data conflicts - Part 1: understanding the problem Source: Continuent blogs: The Scale-out, The Data Charmer, Flying Clusters and Continuent Tungsten blogs Monday, 25 March 2013 17:00 What is a conflict?Readers of this blog know that one of my favorite tools, Tungsten Replicator (http://tungsten-replicator.org), can easily create multi-master replication topologies, such as all-masters, star, fan-in. While this is good news for system designers and ambitious DBAs, it also brings some inconvenience. When you allow updates to happen in more than one master, you risk having confli... |
| Get a FREE pass to MySQL Conference & Expo (a $1,599 value) Source: Continuent blogs: The Scale-out, The Data Charmer, Flying Clusters and Continuent Tungsten blogs Friday, 15 March 2013 06:30 |
| Sessions at Percona Live MySQL Conference 2013: fun, competition, novelties, and a free pass Source: Continuent blogs: The Scale-out, The Data Charmer, Flying Clusters and Continuent Tungsten blogs Tuesday, 12 March 2013 09:30 Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo 2013 (http://www.percona.com/live/mysql-conference-2013/) is almost 1 month away. It's time to start planning, set the expectations, and decide what to attend. This post will give a roundup of some of the sessions that I recommend attending and I look forward to. First, the unexpected!After much talk and disbelief, here they come! Oracle (http://www.mysql.co... |
| Deploying remote MySQL sandboxes Source: Continuent blogs: The Scale-out, The Data Charmer, Flying Clusters and Continuent Tungsten blogs Monday, 11 March 2013 10:34 Stating the problem.In my job, I do a lot of testing. And no matter how much organized we try to be, we end up with fewer machines than we would need to run all the tests that we want.For some tasks, we can run MySQL Sandbox (http://mysqlsandbox.net), and get the job done. But sometimes we need to make sure that applications and systems work well across the network, and we need to install and run ... |
| North East Linux Fest and Open Database Camp - Boston, March 16-17 2013 Source: Continuent blogs: The Scale-out, The Data Charmer, Flying Clusters and Continuent Tungsten blogs Sunday, 10 March 2013 13:24 On Thursday, I will travel to Boston, MA, to attend the Northeast LinuxFest (http://northeastlinuxfest.org/), which includes also an edition of the Open Database Camp (http://www.opensqlcamp.org/index.php?title=Events/NELF2013/). The events will be at one of my favorite places on earth: The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a.k.a. the MIT. Every time I speak at an event there, I feel at home,... |
| ddlscan - Utility to Help Analyze and Migrate Database Schemas Source: Continuent blogs: The Scale-out, The Data Charmer, Flying Clusters and Continuent Tungsten blogs Wednesday, 27 February 2013 00:23 IntroWhile working on one of the MySQL to Oracle replication projects for Continuent (http://www.continuent.com/solutions/replication), I needed to implement an open-source utility for transforming MySQL schema to an Oracle dialect (DDL statements that create specific schema on Oracle) to save from otherwise tedious work. This article introduces ./ddlscan tool, which does that and is extensible to... |
| Tungsten University: Unleashing the Power of Tungsten Connectors Source: Continuent blogs: The Scale-out, The Data Charmer, Flying Clusters and Continuent Tungsten blogs Thursday, 21 February 2013 07:21 |
| Parallel replication and GTID - A tale of two implementations Source: Continuent blogs: The Scale-out, The Data Charmer, Flying Clusters and Continuent Tungsten blogs Wednesday, 20 February 2013 13:23 MySQL 5.6 is probably the version of MySQL with the biggest bundle of new features. You may want to try it soon, since it's now released as GA, and I would like to offer some practical experience on how to use some of the advanced features. Since replication is my main interest, I will focus on some of the new features in this field, and I will compare what's available in MySQL 5.6 with Tungsten R... |
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