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Fixing Replication with Replication

A couple of days ago I ran into a Tungsten Replicator case where several MySQL tables became corrupted on slaves and needed to be restored from the master.   We identified the tables that had problems fairly quickly using Tungsten Replicator's consistency checks.  However, that led to another problem:  how to restore the slave

Interested in Sponsoring Tungsten Open Source Features

Over the last few months I have been pleasantly surprised by the number of people using open source builds of Tungsten.  My company, Continuent, has therefore started to offer support for open source users and will likely expand these services to meet demand.

There have also been a number of requests to add specific features to

Continuent Secures Funding From Aura Capital Appoints Robert Hodges As New CEO

Continuent today announced the appointment of Robert Hodges as its Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Hodges, previously Continuent’s CTO, brings over 20 years of experience in database and application engineering management. Prior to Continuent, he worked as a Senior Engineering Manager at Sybase as well as Portera and Exigen Group, where he led

Its All about the Team

Earlier this week Giuseppe Maxia blogged about joining Continuent as Director of QA.  Creating high quality systems for distributed data management is a hard but fascinating problem.  I have been hooked on it myself for many years. 

Parallel Replication on MySQL Report from the Trenches

Single-threaded apply is one of the big downsides of MySQL's built-in replication, as Baron Schwartz pointed out a couple of days ago.  While a master can process dozens of updates at once, slaves must apply them one after the