Live Webinars

Webinar Managing Big Data with Percona Server XtraBackup and Tungsten

Thursday, 2/10/11 at 1pm ET/10 am PT Click here to register! Big data is a big problem for growing SaaS businesses and  large web applications.  In this webinar, we'll teach you how to set up  Percona Server, XtraBackup, and Tungsten to manage Terabyte+ databases  and scale to millions of transactions a day.  We'll discuss the latest 

Virtual IP Addresses and Their Discontents for Database Availability

Virtual IP addresses or VIPs are commonly used to enable database high availability.   A standard failover design uses an active/passive DBMS server pair connected by replication and watched by a cluster manager.  The active database listens on a virtual IP address; applications use it for database connections

Live Webinar What MySQL replication cannot do And how to get around it

Thursday, January 27, 10 am PT/1 pm ET MySQL built-in replication is the greatest component of the web economy, Its model of scaling out has allowed the growth of companies such as Google, Yahoo!, Facebook, Wikipedia, and countless more. However, this simple model has limitations. Some you can live with, and some will send DBAs in a quest for

Tungsten Replicator Overview Webinar

On Thursday January 27th at 10am PST I will doing a webinar on Tungsten Replicator together with my colleague Giuseppe Maxia.  The title is "What MySQL Replication Cannot Do.  And How to Get Around It." 

Live Webinar MySQL operations made simple

Live webcast Thursday, 1/20 at 1 pm ET/10 am PT The web economy requires prompt data availability and scalability. While MySQL is the backbone of web applications, its manageability in replicated clusters still requires manual labor, can lead to data loss, and it is error prone. DBAs want rapid deployment of new data nodes and even more rapid