PostgreSQL 9 - Tungsten Clusters with Hot Standby and Streaming Replication

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Published on Wednesday, 02 June 2010 00:19

By Alex Alexander, Database Architect; Linas Virbalas, Senior Software Developer. Hot standby and streaming replication will move the needle forward for high availability and scaling for a wide number of applications. Tungsten already supports clustering using warm standby. In this talk we will describe how to build clusters using the new

Zero-Downtime Maintenance and Upgrade for MySQL

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Published on Thursday, 22 April 2010 05:04

Within the increasing reliability of hardware and software, database maintenance and schema upgrade is now the biggest cause of avoidable downtime in business-critical systems in businesses ranging from SaaS to social networking to large enterprises. CTO Robert Hodges of Continuent will present highly technical webinar (register at

MySQL Conference Slides and Thoughts on State of the Dolphin

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Published on Saturday, 24 April 2010 04:07

I did two talks on replication and clustering at the recent MySQL Conference in Santa Clara.  Thanks to all of you who attended as well as the fine O'Reilly folks who organized everything.  Slides are posted on the talk descriptions at the following URLs: 

Customized Data Movement with Tungsten Replicator Pipelines

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Published on Wednesday, 21 April 2010 09:14

Have you ever run into a problem where MySQL replication did 95% of what you needed but not the remaining 5% to solve a real problem?  Hacking the binlog is always a possibility, but it typically looks like this example.  Not a pretty sight.  Wouldn't it be easier if replication were