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Archive for January, 2009

Webcast: MySQL Replication

Jan 18

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MySQL Replication is fairly simple to setup for the first time.  However over time maintenance can become troublesome.  At times errors show up in the error logs, or it can stop running altogether.  In fact MySQL Replication can fail in a much more insidious way, that is silently.  So what to do?

As it turns out there are specific reasons and causes for MySQL replication to get out of sync.  We’ll discuss what is and isn’t compliant in a MySQL Replicated environment, and then most importantly, we’ll discuss a tool that can help you verify your environment, and show you what is or isn’t in sync and why.

I’m presenting this webcast with O’Reilly on Thursday January 22.  If you’re interested, click here to register.

Open Insights 51 – Stretch Your Database Dollar

Jan 9

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Over the holidays I had the chance to catch up on some podcasts I hadn’t listened to.  In particular Financial Times has an excellent weekly one called “Digital Business”.  In the last one for 2008, Peter Whitehead interviews a few people to get their forcasts for 2009.

Of particular interest to our readers was his mention that Open Source will continue to grow in importance, as budgets get squeezed.  Limited budgets mean looking at every dollar, so this month’s Open Insights issue 51, we talk about stretching your database dollar, and where and when open source database technologies may be right for you.