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January 23, 2014 By Severalnines

Thanks to everyone who attended this week’s webinar; if you missed the sessions or would like to watch the webinar again and browse through the slides, they are now available online.

Special thanks to Seppo Jaakola from Codership, the creators of Galera Cluster, for walking us through the various scenarios of Galera recovery. 

Webinar topics discussed: 

• Redundancy models for Galera, NDB and MongoDB / TokuMX
• Failover & Recovery (Automatic vs Manual)
• Zooming into Galera recovery procedures
• Split brains in multi-datacenter setups

Watch the replay:

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December 5, 2013 By Severalnines

Thanks to everyone who attended yesterday’s webinar; if you missed the sessions or would like to watch the webinar again & browse through the slides, they are now available online.

Thanks again to our speaker, Seppo Jaakola from Codership, the creators of Galera Cluster, for this in-depth talk on Galera Cluster Best Practices - Zero Downtime Schema Changes.

Webinar topics covered

• How to perform Zero Downtime Schema Changes
• 2 main methods: TOI and RSU
• Total Order Isolation: predictability and consistency
• Rolling Schema Upgrades
• pt-online-schema-change
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We released the release candidate for MariaDB Galera Cluster on 21st December 2012, not traditionally the best time to make a release. We want to make this a GA release soon and we also want to ensure its well tested. Download it. Read the release notes. Give us feedback/report bugs.  Blog about it too!

Screenings, shows, premieres and parties. Where the stars have been spotted this week? No not on the red carpet in LA, but in this Log Buffer Edition. In Log Buffer #299, stars of Oracle, SQL Server and MySQL are twinkling. Get mesmerized!!! Oracle: Pythian’s very own Marc Fielding is revealing the hints behind the Automatic...