Virtual IP Addresses and Their Discontents for Database Availability

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Published on Monday, 31 January 2011 05:36

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

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Published on Monday, 24 January 2011 20:09

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

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Published on Wednesday, 26 January 2011 10:14

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

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Published on Wednesday, 12 January 2011 23:57

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