Two of the more popular solutions are  MySQL Master HA and Percona Replication Manager.

MySQL Master HA

MHA is based on a set of Perl scripts that monitors for replication and server health. When a failover scenario will happen, it can do automatic failover to a slave OR from a selection of slaves you have configured to make as the new master. The good thing about this is, after the initial failover, there will be no succeeding attempts to fail back, this is to protect your data and consistency of the cluster. You can also configure to only have manual failover for scheduled maintenance and the like. Between PRM and MHA, MHA is really easier to manage.

http://code.google.com/p/mysql-master-ha/

Percona Replication Manager

PRM is based on …

The sessions for this year’s MySQL Connect conference have now been scheduled – as you can see below, my 2 MySQL Cluster sessions will be on Saturday 21st September at 11:30 and 14:30 (Pacific).

The MySQL Connect conference is a great opportunity to listen to and chat with people from the MySQL community – including the engineers who work on or around MySQL as well people who are using it in production. The conference takes place from 21-23 September in San Francisco (runs up to Oracle OpenWorld). There are 84 sessions scheduled and the content catalog has now been published.

I’ll be …

Do you know this scenario: you are writing down  a stored procedure but you can’t for the life of you remember the exact syntax of that CASE statement? Has it to end with CASE or not? Can I use more than one WHEN part and how should that be written? Usually you end up opening a web page and read through the excellent MySQL online docs. However, this might cost too much time if you quickly need different statements and other detail info. Here’s where MySQL Workbench’s context help jumps in.

The server can help

It’s probably only known to the die-hard terminal operators who write most of their SQL queries in a MySQL console window: the MySQL server already has a stripped down set of help topics produced by the Docs team. That means you can always get at least the syntax but often far more information for a particular syntax element when you work with a server. When you …

I will be presenting on both MySQL Connect 2013 and on Oracle OpenWorld 2013. So if you happen to be attending the conferences please come and see what's new in MySQL 5.6 security and even play with it during the hands on lab I'll be doing.

I will be delivering a MySQL Connect talk : 

Session ID: CON1888
Session Title: …

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Time flies and MySQL Connect is only about 5 weeks away! Have you registered? If not, sign up now to save US$300 over the onsite price. And, remember you have the opportunity this year to add a third day of tutorials to your …

I’ve create and another module for this besides the mysql_replication, named mysql_variables.

The purpose of this module to get/set variables from running MySQL servers, and avoid to use shell module for this, because that is a bit frustrating, and there are long commands to run.

For example, when you wanna to set read_only mode via shell, you can do that like this:

ansible db-secondary.bfc.kinja-ops.com -m shell -a "mysql -e 'select @@read_only'"
db-secondary.bfc.kinja-ops.com | success | rc=0 >>

[root@admin banyek]# ansible db-secondary.bfc.kinja-ops.com -m shell -a "mysql -e 'set global read_only=1'"
db-secondary.bfc.kinja-ops.com | success | rc=0 >>

Not so neat, isn’t it, eh? And I have not speak about the —user and —password variables, to this could be real annoying.

That’s why I made this module, because it is a bit easier to use (and I like to use own toolset with the …

I checked some updates to Shard-Query into SVN. Partitioning support has been extended for MySQL 5.6+ to ALL partitioning types.

This includes all previously unsupported types including RANGE LIST/COLUMNS partitioned tables that are partitioned over more than one column, and HASH/KEY/LINEAR variants as well. Shard-Query now exclusively uses the PARTITION hint for partition elimination instead of WHERE clauses in MySQL 5.6. For 5.5 and previous versions, support remains limited to LIST,RANGE, and LIST/RANGE COLUMNS over a single column.

The old mysql interface DAL has been replaced completely by the PDO DAL.

There is no major difference for end users except that you have to check that the return of the query() method is an object with the is_object() function instead of checking that it is a resource with the is_resource() function. I updated bin/run_query, which is the example application.

I …

Percona Toolkit’s pt-archiver is one of the best utilities to archive the records from large tables to another tables or files. One interesting thing is that pt-archiver is a read-write tool. It deletes data from the source by default, so after archiving you don’t need to delete it separately.

As it is done by default, you should take care before actually running it on then production server. You can test your archiving jobs with the – dry-run  OR you can use the –no-delete option if you’re not sure about. The purpose of this script is mainly to archive old data from the table without impacting OLTP queries and insert the data into …

New GUI, 30+ New Features, and Major New Components

Oracle is excited to announce the immediate availability of the production-read, GA release of MySQL Workbench 6.0, available for download under the GPL, as well as part of the Commercial MySQL Standard, Enterprise, and Cluster Carrier Grade Editions with 24x7 global support.

The need by database professionals for management tools has increased with expanding data volumes, web, cloud and mobile computing growth. Improvement and additions in MySQL Workbench helps developers and administrators better manage these dynamic data environments. This latest GA release includes many new features and a modernized user interface that allows users to simplify MySQL database development, design and administration.

Overview
The goal of MySQL Workbench 6.0 is to simplify and improve the workflow in the graphical user interface (GUI) as well as adding new features and …

Dear MySQL users,

The MySQL developer tools team at Oracle is excited to announce the first GA (Generally Available) release of MySQL Workbench 6.0.6.

MySQL Workbench 6.0 is the new major update of the GUI Development and Administration tool for MySQL. This release contains more than 30 new features and a redesigned, more modern UI. Over 200 enhancement requests and bugs filed by the community have been addressed since version 5.2.47

Improvements in MySQL Workbench 6.0:

• a new redesigned Home screen
• the SQL Editor and Server Administration UIs were merged into a single connection specific interface, allowing for quick access to administration features while simplifying the location of specific features
• improved model Synchronization, lets you compare and update your EER model or database with ALTER scripts and properly handle corner cases involving objects renamed externally or sync …