MySQL

ProxySQL is a dedicated loadbalancer for MySQL database backends. If you run a HAProxy as your loadbalancer for MySQL, you may want to migrate to ProxySQL to benefit from all the features it comes with. This blog shares some tips regarding the migration process.

Migrating off Amazon RDS to an on-prem server can be tedious work,  especially if you need to determine how accurate the copy of your on-prem node is against the AWS RDS data. This blog will show you how to take care of this problem by sharing procedures to handle this situation.

Database migrations can be a hefty job to handle. This blog looks at tools which are freely available either to be used or to be extended in order to achieve your desired data migration activities.

Percona XtraDB Cluster comes with some changes from PXC 5.7. This blog is an attempt to highlight those, and which may have an impact on the upgrade process

Upgrades are necessary to apply security fixes, new features, compatibility issues, etc. Rolling Upgrades are a good option to keep your systems running during an upgrade process. In this blog, we will see some considerations to take into account before upgrading and how to perform a rolling upgrade on MySQL.

MySQL upgrades can be tricky, in this blog post we share some thoughts about the upgrade process from MySQL 5.7 to MySQL 8.0

HAProxy is one of the most common Load Balancing technologies nowadays. It is powerful open-source software and has many metrics to monitor to know how everything is going on. In this blog, we will look at the HAProxy statistics and how to monitor them.

This blog post covers the management tasks walkthrough of the advanced components commonly used in MariaDB Cluster - filters, logging, and maxscale - using MaxCtrl. All of the commands in this blog post are based on MaxScale 2.5.3.

ProxySQL comes with advanced features that allow users to take full control over the database traffic. This blog post will show you how to block certain queries and introduce delays.

A MySQL database index is a data structure that improves the speed of operations in a table. In this post, we discuss the benefits and the drawbacks of using indexes in MySQL.

Load balancers can be deployed into a number of topologies to achieve high availability for the database service with zero single-point-of-failure (SPOF). This blog post covers the pros and cons of distributed or centralized setup for your database load balancers.

MySQL Replication can be used as the database for Moodle implementations. In this blog we will show you how to deploy a highly available Moodle database using a master/slave MySQL setup.

In this blog post we discuss how to optimize one of MySQL’s most widely used storage engines - InnoDB - for high performance.

AWS, Google and Azure all provide public DBaaS services based on MySQL, but which of them is the best? This blog compares the features from each of the main cloud providers.

This past week we debuted a series of videos on database disaster recovery. From basic backup and restore, to switchover & failover, to full cluster-to-cluster replication, these videos show how ClusterControl offers you end-to-end protection in the event of an outage or catastrophe.

In this blog post, we are going to perform an online migration with minimal downtime from MySQL 5.6 standalone setup without GTID to a new replication set running on MySQL 5.7 with GTID, deployed and managed by ClusterControl.

Multi-Cloud deployments are a common part of disaster recovery plans. In this blog we will show you how to setup and optimize a MySQL Replication deployment across multiple clouds.

Split-brain is a serious issue that may affect multi-cloud MySQL database deployments. There are some methods you can use to minimize the risk and ensure your data will stay consistent.

Many SysAdmins & DBAs use MySQL Workbench as a tool to help manage their databases. In this blog post we’re going to take a look at the user experience of the tool and how it compares to ClusterControl.

ProxySQL can sometimes be tricky to configure, but there are tools that can help you do it. In this blog post we will take a look at the proxysql-admin tool from Percona and compare it to how ClusterControl manages ProxySQL