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June 27, 2016

MySQL on Docker: Building the Container Image

  Building a docker image for MySQL is essential if you’d like to customize MySQL to suit your needs. The image can then be used to quickly start running MySQL containers, which can be operated...

June 20, 2016

What to Test Before Upgrading to MySQL 5.7

As we saw in a previous post, there are some important changes between MySQL 5.6 and 5.7. Since the behaviour of some existing features been altered, some detailed testing of the upgrade is in order....

June 15, 2016

Webinar Replay: MySQL Database Performance Tuning

Thanks to everyone who participated in this week’s popular webinar on MySQL Database Performance Tuning, which looked at answering the following questions: You’re running MySQL as backend database, how do you tune it to make...

June 14, 2016

Understanding What Has Changed Between MySQL 5.6 and 5.7 Before Upgrading

MySQL 5.7 has been GA since October 2015. At the time of writing, it is still a very new release. But more and more companies are looking into upgrading, as it has a list of...

June 13, 2016

MySQL Docker Containers: Understanding the Basics

Docker is quickly becoming mainstream, as a method to package and deploy self-sufficient applications in primarily stateless Linux containers. But for a stateful service like a database, this might be bit of a headache. How...

May 23, 2016

MySQL Slave Promotion With and Without Using GTID

MySQL Replication can be fragile: whenever it encounters a connectivity error, it will retry and if it is a serious error, it will simply stop. Obviously in the latter case, you will need to repair...

May 16, 2016

The Difference Between MySQL Multi-Master and Multi-Source Replication

  MySQL replication can have various topologies and the most well known topology is the Master/Slave topology, where one host is the master and the slave replicates all transactions from the master. Lesser known are...

May 3, 2016

MySQL vs MongoDB: Deployment & Provisioning

If you are a MySQL DBA you may ask yourself why you would install MongoDB? That is actually a very good question as MongoDB and MySQL have been in a flame-war a couple of years...

April 29, 2016

New Whitepaper: MySQL Replication Blueprint

MySQL Replication has become an essential component of scale-out architectures in LAMP environments. When there is a necessity to scale out, MySQL offers a multitude of solutions, the most common being to add read replicas....

April 20, 2016

MySQL Replication Failover – MaxScale vs MHA: Part Four

In the earlier blogs in this series, we concluded that MaxScale with MariaDB Replication Manager still has some way to go as a failover solution. The failover mechanism relied on MariaDB GTID, needed a wrapper...

April 6, 2016

Webinar Replay: The MySQL Replication Blueprint

Thanks to everyone who participated in this week’s live webinar introducing our blueprint for MySQL Replication. If you missed the session and/or would like to watch the replay in your own time, it is now...

March 30, 2016

How ProxySQL Adds Failover and Query Control to Your MySQL Replication Setup

In a previous blog post, we discussed the installation of ProxySQL and its configuration system. In today’s post, we’ll set up ProxySQL to work in a MySQL Replication environment managed by  ClusterControl. We will take...

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