There are number of people recently blogging about MySQL automated failover, based on production incident which GitHub disclosed. Here is my take on it. When we look at systems providing high availability we can identify 2 cases of system breaking down. First is when the system itself has a bug or limitations which does not [...]
Distro Packages, Pre-built Binaries or Compile Your Own MySQL
September 4, 2012 By 7 Comments
I’ve been helping customers deploy and maintain MySQL (and variants) for the last couple of years and it has always been interesting to hear customer thoughts on how they want their servers installed. It has also been asked many times not only by our support and consulting customers, but widely from different forums and blogs [...]
MySQL Indexing Best Practices: Webinar Questions Followup
August 16, 2012 By 4 Comments
I had a lot of questions on my MySQL Indexing: Best Practices Webinar (both recording and slides are available now) We had lots of questions. I did not have time to answer some and others are better answered in writing anyway. Q: One developer on our team wants to replace longish (25-30) indexed varchars with [...]
MySQL Upgrade Webinar Questions Followup
June 28, 2012 By 7 Comments
I did a Webinar about MySQL Upgrade – Best Practices Yesterday and there were some questions we could not answer during Webinar, following Jay’s Lead I decided to post them as a Blog Post. Q: Can you go directly MySQL 5.0 to 5.5 for MyISAM tables? MyISAM have not been getting any significant development since [...]
Upgrading MySQL: Best Practices webinar, June 27th
June 18, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Upgrading MySQL is boring topic, upgrading MySQL is something we would rather to be done with and get benefits from new cool features or be done with bugs and limitations which haunted us for years. Yet if you’re not careful performing MySQL upgrade you can get advantage of multiple opportunities of downtime and data loss, [...]
Migrating to XtraDB Cluster Webinar follow up questions
June 6, 2012 By 3 Comments
Thanks to all who attended my webinar today. The session was recorded and will be available to watch for free soon here. There were a lot of great questions asked during the session, so I’d like to take this opportunity to try to answer a few of them: Q: Is there an easy way to [...]
Zero-downtime schema changes webinar recording
May 8, 2012 By Leave a Comment
The recording and slides for my webinar on zero-downtime schema changes with MySQL are available now. Don’t miss Vadim’s webinar tomorrow!
Zero-Downtime Schema Changes In MySQL
May 3, 2012 By 2 Comments
The recording of yesterday’s webinar, as well as a PDF of my slide deck, is now available. You can watch the recording and get the slides here. I got a lot of questions, and did not have enough time to answer all of them, so let me try to answer some of the remaining questions [...]
Percona Toolkit 2.1 with New Online Schema Change Tool
April 5, 2012 By 10 Comments
I’m proud to announce the GA release of version 2.1 of Percona Toolkit. Percona Toolkit is the essential suite of administrative tools for MySQL. With this release we introduce a new version of pt-online-schema-change, a tool that enables you to ALTER large tables with no blocking or downtime. As you know, MySQL locks tables for [...]
Introducing the pmp-check-mysql-status Nagios Plugin
March 29, 2012 By 2 Comments
Most of the Nagios plugins included with the Percona Monitoring Plugins are purpose-built for specific scenarios that I found in my research to be frequent, severe, or subtle causes of problems in MySQL systems. They are intentionally not generic because I wanted to focus on doing one thing with each plugin, and doing it excellently. [...]
