Infobright and InnoDB AMI images are now available There are now demonstration AMI images for Shard-Query. Each image comes pre-loaded with the data used in the previous Shard-Query blog post. The data in the each image is split into 20 “shards”. This blog post will refer to an EC2 instances as a node from here [...]
Faster MySQL failover with SELECT mirroring
February 1, 2009 By 9 Comments
One of my favorite MySQL configurations for high availability is master-master replication, which is just like normal master-slave replication except that you can fail over in both directions. Aside from MySQL Cluster, which is more special-purpose, this is probably the best general-purpose way to get fast failover and a bunch of other benefits (non-blocking ALTER [...]
MySQL 5.1 Command line client improvements
June 16, 2007 By 11 Comments
Just found this little handy feature today:
1 2 3 | mysql> insert into c select rand()*1000, sha1(rand()) from c; Query aborted by Ctrl+C ERROR 1317 (70100): Query execution was interrupted |
So now if you press CTRL-C MySQL Command Line Client will not exit but will terminate query being executed. This is great as so many queries assumed CTRL-C would also abort running query in previous MySQL versions and I’ve seen many monstrous queries left running without noticing [...]
