For every online business, there are millions of transactions happening every second including crucial revenue bearing transactions. Therefore downtime, both planned and unplanned has a cost attached to it and results in lost revenue every second. As the technology improved to meet this demand, the importance of High Availability (HA) became the focus point.

The introduction of Galera Cluster for MySQL bought true Multimaster Cluster thanks to its synchronous replication. In this article, we’ll show how using MONyog in tandem with Galera provides a simple and best-in-class High Availability solution for MySQL users.

How to register a Galera Cluster Node in MONyog

1. Enter the Hostname, port and credentials in “MySQL settings”, test the connection and save it.
2. Enable “Galera” group from “Customize” > “Manage monitor groups”
3. In Monitors page, select the “Galera” group and …

A couple of months ago the MySQL Community team announced a new award program called "MySQL 5.7 Community Contributor Award Program” where we wanted to identify & reward the most active community members / contributors / active bloggers from the MySQL community world. Below you can find a list of our current winners who met any of following criteria:

1. The most active code contributor
2. Bug reporter
3. The most active MySQL blogger
4. People who play very active role in translation/documentation of MySQL articles 
5. People who provide feedback on DMR releases, Labs releases, or change proposals 

We printed a limited edition of “MySQL 5.7 Community Contributor” really nice polo t-shirts for this program.  

It’s our pleasure to announce that following people were awarded - Congratulations to all!!!:

• Shahriyar Rzayev, the …

While MONyog MySQL Monitor is being embraced by DBAs and DevOps around the world, we are constantly adding more features to make MONyog the most complete MySQL monitoring tool.

MONyog ships 40+ MySQL and system metric charts. It also lets you add custom charts. With the latest update, we have made Charts more powerful by adding few important features to help you find problem queries with ease.

Here’s a 1 minute video to walk you through the new features.

Existing customers can download MONyog 6.33 from Customer Area. To evaluate MONyog 6.33, please download a 14-day trial.

We are really excited about this update and we hope you like the new features. Please feel free to share your feedback.

Cheers,
Team MONyog

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The Percona Live Data Performance Conference in Amsterdam is just two months away and it’s going to be an incredible event. With a new expanded focus on MySQL, NoSQL, and Data in the Cloud, this conference will be jam-packed with talks from some of the industry’s leading experts from MongoDB, VMware, Oracle, MariaDB, Facebook, Booking.com, Pythian, Google, Rackspace, Yelp (and many more, including of course Percona).

Early Bird pricing ends this Sunday (July 26)! So if you want to save €25, then you’d better register now. And for all of my readers, you can take an additional 10% off the entire registration price by using the promo code “10off” at checkout.

It’s also important to book your room at the Mövenpick Hotel for a special rate – but hurry because that deal ends July 27 and the rooms are disappearing fast due to some …

With the MySQL for Developers training course, you learn to:

• Use client programs and options
• Access the database from program code
• Build "NoSQL" applications
• Write Effective queries and stored routines
• Inspect database metadata
• Respond to database events and triggers
• Handle errors and exceptions
• Optimize SQL statements 
• And much more

This course includes exercises in Java and PHP. You can take this course through the following training formats:

• Training-on-Demand: Start training within 24 …

Upscene releases Database Workbench 5.1.2

Upscene Productions is proud to announce a new release of the popular multi-DBMS development tool:
" Database Workbench 5.1.2 "

This version is the next big release after version 5 and includes new features, enhancements and fixes.  Change logs for version 5.1 and 5.1.2 are available.

Version 5 added numerous new features and improvements to existing tools and the new, more consistent user interface is better than ever and works fine under Wine on Linux.

Version 5.1 includes SQL Azure and Firebird 3 support, additional data export functionality, improved Oracle XML and Object-type …

The MySQL NYC Meetup is this Wednesday, July 15th in the Oracle office at 120 Park Avenue. I will be talking about MySQL 5.7 and the event is free but you must RSVP by 6PM July 14 (and bring ID).

The MySQL Enterprise Monitor Query Analyzer module allows you to identify problem queries in graphical format without having to wade through lengthy log files. Among other topics, the MySQL Performance Tuning course provides an introduction to MySQL Enterprise Monitor capabilities and a walkthrough of the Query Analyzer module.

You can take this course in the following formats:

• Training-on-Demand: Start training within 24 hours of registration, following lectures at your own pace through streaming video and booking time to do hands-on exercises when suits your schedule.
• Live-Virtual Event: Attend a live event …