I have created Centos6 RPMs for Codership’s Galera Load Balancer version 0.9.2

License: GPLv2.
Warranty: none at all.

Downloads:
glb-0.9.2-1.x86_64.rpm md5: 49bfb241c6738056f6bf0bce4de6b96b
glb-0.9.2-1.i686.rpm md5: 2491370cb3f78c804831c078250ae611 

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The SkySQL and MariaDB Roadshow comes to Sweden:

Stockholm 7 February 2013, 16:30-19:30, Dramaten Restaurang Pauli

SkySQL and Monty Program are on the road with our joint - free - roadshow in Stockholm where Monty Widenius will unveil his vision of the future of the MySQL database via MariaDB.

In addition, we will have speakers from Codership/Galera, as well as SkySQL experts.

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Oh yes, 2012 was an incredible year for the MySQL Community!
That’s why I would like to change the rules this year and I would like to offer you a new survey for this [Plus] reader’s choice 2012.

Community users, bloggers and events made the whole community last year, tell us how you used this community?
It will only take 5 minutes of your precious time, votes will be closed Jan. 31.

Vote for what you used! (with your heart, again…)

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Galera from codership has been getting a lot of attention recently. Galera provides a nice High Availability solution for MySQL where Galera provides synchronous replication with conflict detection using the classic InnoDB Storage Engine. No more playing about with special storage engines of DRBD failover, just continue to use InnoDB and add Galera as the secret sauce for High Availability.

Some of the neat features of Galera are, but are not limited to, multi-master replication, a lightweight implementation of replication and zero failover times due to the multi.master ability. This is not a complete HA solution though, just a component of it, we still need to add some monitoring and failover mechanisms, but as Galera is multi-master this is greatly simplified and can in many cases be handled by the driver or the application with little overhead.

Now, the replication in Galera is synchronous, so that should slow …

Percona Live UK took place this week. It was the second year in a row and once again a great conference. Thank you Percona for bringing the show to Europe, it means a lot for the European MySQL community - many people who don't visit the Santa Clara conference were present in London. It's kind of funny, I even meet more Finnish MySQL users in London than I do at home!

I gave 2 talks. Slides are now posted on Slideshare:

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You may have already seen the announcement MariaDB Foundation to Safeguard Leading Open Source Database. We at Open Query wholeheartedly support this (r)evolution of the MySQL ecosystem, which appears to be increasingly necessary as Oracle Corp is seriously dropping the ball with security updates and actually just general development and innovation. Oracle has actually done some very good work, I happily acknowledge that – but security issues are critical, having crashing bugs and incorrect query results in a .28 of a GA release is uncool, and not incorporating awesome development efforts by the community is just astonishing.

MariaDB is where the Sphinx fulltext …

As a few LinkedIn friends already noticed, I have started working together with the Galera team at Codership. It is a part time "advisor" position and I still continue my full time work at Nokia, supporting various databases behind the new HERE.com portal.

We get a lot of requests for more blogs and better documentation to explain in-depth how Galera work. That's an area I will work on a lot. The first "deliverable" is out today: the first Galera white paper.

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First 10 to register this week will benefit from a 40% discount

The Percona Live MySQL Conference: London 2012 is just around the corner and we’ll be present both with talks as well as in the exhibition hall alongside other sponsors of the conference.

Talks & Hot Topics

Our very own Ivan Zoratti has the following two talks on Tuesday December 4th:

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Hot backups are important for high availability, they can run without blocking the application. Percona Xtrabackup is a great tool for backing up InnoDB data. 
We have created a backup tool called s9s_backup that makes Xtrabackup really easy to use, and is fully integrated with ClusterControl, which means that you can schedule backups with ease and view the backups that you have taken, and also restore the backups with no pain.

s9s_backup is available in the lastest version of ClusterControl or you can download it here.

Is mysqldump totally useless then?

No. If you would like to isolate and load only one table, mysqldump is great, or if you want to …

We’ve recently implemented Galera clustering and have been pleased with the relatively easy install and implementation. A quick description of galera is the joining of individual mysql dbs as nodes to create a cluster that features multi-threaded synchronous replication, which allows for true high availability while still using your original db and engine (innodb). Likewise, [...]