Sometimes you just need some data to test and stress things. But randomly generated data is awful — it doesn’t have realistic distributions, and it isn’t easy to understand whether your results are meaningful and correct. Real or quasi-real data is best. Whether you’re looking for a couple of megabytes or many terabytes, the following [...]
Announcing Training for Operations Teams
August 18, 2010 By 3 Comments
We’re opening up registration for our new training courses today. In short: we are moving from two days to a new four-day format. The new additions are created by: Splitting our current InnoDB day in half. We now have one day for DBAs, and one day just on InnoDB topics. A new Operations Day – covering [...]
High availability for MySQL on Amazon EC2 – Part 2 – Setting up the initial instances
June 29, 2010 By 9 Comments
This post is the second of a series that started here. The first step to build the HA solution is to create two working instances, configure them to be EBS based and create a security group for them. A third instance, the client, will be discussed in part 7. Since this will be a proof [...]
