June 18, 2013

Post: Choosing a MySQL HA Solution - Post-Webinar Q&A

in most cases your virtual disk is basically nothing more than a file on the host filesystem rather than an actual physical volume. So, inOne way is to set up replication filters on the slave, as described in the MySQL manual. You can configure the slave

Post: Is Synchronous Replication right for your app?

master] you can’t commit (at all) more than once per RTT.  Applied to a Galera cluster Inone RTT between the two nodes in…run a transaction that adds the relationship …MySQL Innodb with asynchronous slaves.  We may not think about the tradeoffs, but we’re making them (anyone obsessively testing slave

Post: Reasons for MySQL Replication Lag

more. I always smile at “nothing has changed” claim as it usually wrong, and oneSlave Role Changing Slave role, such as swapping active and passive masters in Master-Master setup is often cause of the problem for similar reason as MySQL

Post: Percona Replication Manager, a solution for MySQL high availability with replication using Pacemaker

… for the above user max_slave_lag: The maximum allowed slave lag in seconds, if a slave lags by more than that value, it will lose… promoted to master. There are not many requirements regarding the MySQL configuration, Pacemaker will automatically add “skip-start-slave” for a saner behavior. One of…

Post: Percona XtraDB Cluster: Failure Scenarios with only 2 nodes

in case master splits from several slaves it still remains operational. Use with extreme caution even in master-slave setups, because slaves won’t automatically reconnect to master in…no more than one primary component in the cluster. In our …you can also add records: percona2 mysql> insert into …

Post: Flexviews - part 3 - improving query performance using materialized views

slave that is behind. Until it catches up, the view of the data on the slave is “behind” the changes on the masterin set (43 min 10.11 sec) As an added benefit, if you build more than one complete refresh view from an incrementally refreshable one

Post: Fighting MySQL Replication Lag

in MySQL binary log can’t proceed. It is either more than than just…one large update to help MySQL replication lag it is not going to work. This brings us to rule number one… multiple update queries which add up to long time…. thumb depending on differences in master/slave configuration, their load and…

Post: MySQL Replication vs DRBD Battles

master too”, however, is plain false. DRBD won’t “destroy the original master” any more than it already was if the filesystem on top of DRBD was fried beforehand. Let us again compare MySQL Replication to DRBD in

Post: Managing Slave Lag with MySQL Replication

Slave Server Load – MySQL Replication goes inMySQL Replication executes queries one after another on the slave, so if you have query which takes certain time on the masterslaves as efficient on the Master and the more powerful the Master…. Idea: MySQL Should add “Replication… time rather than break is…

Post: MySQL Backup tools used by Percona Remote DBA for MySQL

…other tool. Store your backups on more than one server. In addition to local copies, store …master and slave Re-transfer files that are partially transferred Compress the files after successful transfer Amazon S3 for MySQL…with little additional work Tips/Tricks: –add-header=x-amz-server-side-…