Still Looking for a Machine That Unleashes the Power in Your Database Instances?
If you are a frequent reader of database-related blogs, you have probably heard about the Severalnines blog. Well, we mean, you are reading it right now, aren’t you? And if you’re reading the Severalnines blog,...
ClusterControl supports Redis with version 1.9
If you are a frequent user of ClusterControl, you might have heard that the Severalnines team recently released ClusterControl version 1.9.0. The full changelog can be found here, but in this blog post, we are...
Your DBA is Absent: What Do You Do?
If you are running a company, chances are that you already have a lot of things to take care of - you need to hire developers, designers, perhaps a couple of security experts, as well...
What’s the Use of Developer Studio in ClusterControl?
If you are a frequent user of Severalnines’ products, you have probably heard of one of its flagship products - ClusterControl. And since you have probably heard of ClusterControl, you have probably heard of at...
What Monitoring Tool Do You Use To Keep An Eye On Your Database Clusters?
Choosing a monitoring tool that helps you keep an eye out on your database clusters might not be a very easy task. At least not until you know what you need out of it and...
What Do You Use To Monitor Query Performance?
If you have found yourself in the shoes of a database administrator or a database-savvy developer or a system administrator, you have most likely already heard about queries. Heck, it’s impossible not to, right? Queries...
Benchmarking databases 101 – part 2
In the previous blog post we have discussed a couple of best practices related to benchmarking. This time we would like to talk about the process itself. What can go wrong, what are the potential...
Need Performance Advice? Turn To ClusterControl!
If you frequently find yourself working with any kind of database, it’s natural that you might need some advice on how to deal with them at least once in a while. At present, you might...
MySQL Security with ClusterControl
If you are an experienced MySQL DBA, you probably already know how important MySQL security is. For you, security comes without any question - you already secured your database instances from the get-go: as soon...
The Common MySQL error: “Got an error reading communication packet”
MySQL is the second famous database in the world according to the DB Engine website behind Oracle. What makes MySQL famous is probably because it is a very fast, reliable and flexible Database Management System....
What’s new in ProxySQL?
Quite recently ProxySQL has changed the way it names new releases. To avoid confusion we’d like to go over it a bit. In the past, we had two branches: 1.4.x and 2.0.x where new features...
ClusterControl Schema Advisors: Why, When, How?
If you’re a database administrator, your database schema is probably one of the primary things you keep a watchful eye on. However, database schema design consists of many different things, and as a database administrator...