Thanks to everyone who joined us for our recent live webinar on ‘Replication Topology Changes for MySQL and MariaDB’ led by Krzysztof Książek, Senior Support Engineer at Severalnines. The replay and slides to the webinar...

An index is a data structure that sorts a number of records on one or more fields, and speeds up data retrieval. This is to avoid scanning through the disk blocks that a table spans,...

cPanel is a very popular Linux hosting control panel, used not only by hosting providers but also enterprise and goverment bodies. For large scale hosting environments hosting mission critical databases, how do you integrate cPanel...

Database vendors typically release patches with bug/security fixes on a monthly basis, why should we care? The news is full of reports of security breaches and hacked systems, so unless security is not a concern,...

Thanks to everyone who joined us last week for this live session on backup strategies for MySQL and Galera clusters led by Krzysztof Książek, Senior Support Engineer at Severalnines. The replay and slides to the...

MySQL replication has been available for years, and even though a number of new clustering technologies showed up recently, replication is still very common among MySQL users. It is understandable as replication is a reliable...

Database schema changes are not popular among DBAs, not when you are operating production databases and cannot afford to switch off the service during a maintenance window. These are unfortunately frequent and necessary, especially when...

So, you’ve been working with MySQL for a while and now are being asked to manage it. Perhaps your primary job description is not about support and maintenance of the company’s databases (and data!), but...

New ClusterControl release includes customisation language for management and automation Stockholm, Sweden and anywhere else in the world - 27 MAY 2015 - Severalnines, the provider of database infrastructure management software, today launched the latest...

Note: This post updated on 28th April 2015 with updated installation steps. Kubernetes is a system for managing containerized applications in a clustered environment. It provides basic mechanisms for deployment, maintenance and scaling of applications...

Thanks to everyone who attended and participated in this week’s webinar on 'New Features - ClusterControl 1.2.9 Release'. If you missed the sessions or would like to watch the webinar again & browse through the...

We are excited to announce support for PostgreSQL, probably the world’s most advanced open source RDBMS. ClusterControl can now be used to monitor database metrics, queries and schedule backups. With this new addition, ClusterControl now...