We’re excited to announce the 1.7.6 release of ClusterControl - the only database management system you’ll ever need to take control of your open source database infrastructure.  This new edition expands our commitment to cloud...

A bastion host is a gateway host between an inside network and an outside network. It is commonly used to access remote hosts sitting on a different network which has no direct connection between the...

In case of a database failure, the best case scenario is that you have a good Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP) and a highly available environment with an automatic failover process in place. But what happens...

User management is one of the day-to-day tasks that are performed by database administrators. If your database administrator is not available and you have been appointed to perform his tasks, you may have been asked...

Database monitoring is a key function for Database Administrators (DBA). With a proper monitoring platform, you can know immediately if there is something wrong with the system.  Should your DBA be unavailable and you may...

The alarming nature of COVID-19 is being felt globally. Many companies have closed or filed bankruptcy because of the global pandemic.  Most organizations did not see this coming. Large companies have a better chance of...

The day happened when your database administrator did not show up on the daily online standup. Shortly after you have learned that he’ll be unavailable for an unknown period of time and it is you,...

This blog is the second part of Implementing a Multi-Datacenter Setup for PostgreSQL. In this blow, we will show how to deploy PostgreSQL in this type of environment and how to failover in the case...

ProxySQL has gained a lot of interest right now in the MySQL and MariaDB database world, not to mention ClickHouse which helps make the case for ProxySQL.  It’s safe to say that ProxySQL has become...

Mysqldump is the most popular logical backup tool for MySQL. It is included in the MySQL distribution, so it’s ready for use on all of the MySQL instances.  Logical backups are not, however, the fastest...

Using a Load Balancer is a good idea for any database technology, as you can redirect applications to the available or healthy database nodes and even distribute the traffic across multiple servers to improve performance....

Backups are the means of protecting from data loss - should something happen, you can easily restore it from the backup. You cannot predict what part of the data will have to be restored -...