On 17th October I’ll be running a hands-on workshop on the various technologies available to provide High Availability using MySQL. The workshop is being held on 17th October (the day before the All Your Base conference) in Oxford (UK). The cost is £250 + VAT and you can register here.…
Tag Archives: High-Availability
New replication & HA white papers
With the General Availability of the standalone MySQL Utilities it now makes sense to use these to simplify (and optionally automate) your MySQL Replication and High Availability solutions. In light of that, 4 of our MySQL white papers have been updated to reflect the new opportunities:
Standalone MySQL Utilities Now GA! Includes running mysqlfailover as a daemon
With the release of MySQL Utilities 1.3.4, the standalone (not bundled with the MySQL WorkBench GUI) package is now Generally Available and fully supported. This post will focus on a very important change (the ability to run as a daemon rather than in a terminal) to the mysqlfailover utility which allows you to build a light-weight HA database solution using MySQL Replication.…
MySQL 5.6 Replication Webinar
Update – the recording of this webinar is now available here.
This Wednesday (27th March) Mat Keep and I will be presenting a free, live webinar on MySQL 5.6 Replication. You need to register here ahead of the webinar – worth doing even if you can’t attend as you’ll then be sent a link to the replay when it’s available.…
MySQL 5.6 GA – Replication Enhancements
MySQL 5.6 has now been declared Generally Available (i.e. suitable for production use). This is a very exciting release from a MySQL replication perspective with some big new features. These include:
- Global Transaction Identifiers (GTIDs) – a unique identifier that is used accross your replication topology to identify a transaction.
MySQL now provides support for DRBD
Oracle has announced that it now provides support for DRBD with MySQL – this means a single point of support for the entire MySQL/DRBD/Pacemaker/Corosync/Linux stack! As part of this, we’ve released a new white paper which steps you through everything you need to do to configure this High Availability stack.…
Replication and auto-failover made easy with MySQL Utilities
If you’re a user of MySQL Workbench then you may have noticed a pocket knife icon appear in the top right hand corner – click on that and a terminal opens which gives you access to the MySQL utilities. In this post I’m focussing on the replication utilities but you can also refer to the full MySQL Utilities documentation.…
MySQL 5.6 Replication – webinar replay
On Wednesday (16th May 2012), Mat Keep and I presented on the new replication features that are previewed as part of the latest MySQL 5.6 Development Release.
The replay for that webinar (together with the chart deck) is now available from here.…
Upcoming webinar: MySQL 5.6 Replication – For Next Generation of Web and Cloud Services
On Wednesday (16th May 2012), Mat Keep and I will be presenting the new replication features that are previewed as part of the latest MySQL 5.6 Development Release. If you’d like to attend then register here.
MySQL 5.6 delivers new replication capabilities which we will discuss in the webinar:
- High performance with Multi-Threaded Slaves and Optimized Row Based Replication
- High availability with Global Transaction Identifiers, Failover Utilities and Crash Safe Slaves & Binlog
- Data integrity with Replication Event Checksums
- Dev/Ops agility with new Replication Utilities, Time Delayed Replication and more
The session will wrap up with resources to get started with MySQL 5.6…
What’s new in MySQL 5.6 Replication – free webinar
There will be a webinar this Wednesday where you can get the latest information on all of the great new content that has been included in the MySQL 5.6 Development Releases as well as some features that are still being developed.…