May 22, 2013

The Math of Automated Failover

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 [...]

Poor man’s query logging

Occasionally there is a need to see what queries reach MySQL. The database provides several ways to share that information with you. One is called general log activated with

(or

in MySQL 5.1+) start-up parameter. The log writes any query being executed by MySQL to a file with limited amount of additional information. [...]

Enabling/Disabling query log without server restart in MySQL 5.0

General query logging can be very handy in MySQL on profuction server for various debugging needs. Unfortunately you can’t switch it on and off without restarting server until MySQL 5.0. What can you do in MySQL 5.0 and below ? Use Our Patch – With this patch you can get all queries logged as slow [...]