Business Wire  Oracle Open World 2014, Booth # 430- Continuent, Inc., a leading provider of open source database clustering and replication solutions, today announced Continuent Tungsten 3.0, a powerful solution that combines advanced clustering and replication technologies to meet the transaction processing and analytic needs of the entire business. Continuent Tungsten 3.0 enables constant,

Continuent is delighted to announce an exciting Continuent Tungsten feature addition for MySQL users: replication in real-time from MySQL into Amazon RedShift.  

In this webinar-on-demand we survey Continuent Tungsten capabilities for data warehouse loading, then zero in on practical details of setting up replication from MySQL into RedShift.  We cover:

Introduction to real-time movement

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MySQL Enterprise Backup 3.10 support backups to the cloud. The only supported cloud service is Amazon S3.

When the cloud destination is used mysqlbackup will upload the backup as an image file.

You can specify all options on the commandline:

mysqlbackup --cloud-service=s3 --cloud-aws-region=eu-west-1 \

--cloud-access-key-id=AKIAJLGCPXEGVHCQD27B \

--cloud-secret-access-key=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 \

--cloud-bucket=meb_myserver --cloud-object-key=firstbackup --cloud-trace=0 \

--backup-dir=/tmp/firstbackup --backup-image=- --with-timestamp backup-to-image

But you can also put the settings in the my.cnf

[mysqlbackup_cloud]
cloud-service=s3
cloud-aws-region=eu-west-1
cloud-access-key-id=AKIAJLGCPXEGVHCQD27B
cloud-secret-access-key=fCgbFDRUWVwDV/J2ZcsCVPYsVOy8jEbAID9LLlB2
cloud-bucket=meb_myserver …

Global data access can greatly expand the reach of your business. Continuent Tungsten multi-site multi-master (MSMM) solutions enable applications to accept write traffic in multiple locations across on-premises and cloud providers. This includes the following important real-world use cases:

Improve performance for globally distributed users registering hardware devices by permitting updates

MySQL Enterprise Backup(MEB) has been widely used as the most efficient tool to take backups of huge databases. The storage of backups can be done on-premises – viz, local hard disk, external hard disk drives, network mounted disk. MEB can also stream backups to tape by supporting different Media Management Software like Symantec NetBackup, EMC2 and Oracle Secure Backup. Streaming of backups can also be done using 'ssh' to another machine.

As data keeps growing, instead of expanding the storage, database users are choosing to rely on the growing trend which is the Cloud Storage.

A few facts about Cloud Storage:

1. Offers off-premises storage with AAA(Anytime, Anywhere Access)
2. Sharing of data to make a collaborative effort.
3. Highly fault tolerant, durable and scalable and secure.
4. Cost-effective

To the benefit of our MySQL database users, Mysql …

If you’ve used relational databases for more than ten minutes, I hope you’ve heard of slow queries. Those are those pesky little gremlins that are slowing down your startup, and preventing scalability you so desperately need. Luckily there’s a solution. What I’ve found is if I send a report to developers every week, it keeps […]

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If you use Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), you are always given choices of AMIs (by default; there are plenty of other AMIs available for your base-os): Amazon Linux AMI, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Enterprise Server and Ubuntu. In terms of cost, the Amazon Linux AMI is the cheapest, followed by SUSE then RHEL. 

I use EC2 a lot for testing, and recently had to pay a “RHEL tax” as I needed to run a RHEL environment. For most uses I’m sure you can be satisfied by the Amazon Linux AMI. The last numbers suggest Amazon Linux is #2 in terms of usage on EC2.

Anyway, recently Amazon Linux AMI came out with the 2014.03 release (see release notes). You can install MySQL …

Shard-Query (source) now supports the MySQL “LOAD DATA INFILE” command.

When you use LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE a single threaded load from the current process will be performed.  You can specify a path to a file anywhere readable by the PHP script.  This allows loading without using the Gearman workers and without using a shared filesystem.

If you do not specify LOCAL, then the Gearman based loader is used.  You must not specify a path to the file when you omit the LOCAL keyword.  This is because the shared path will the pre-pended to the filename automatically.  The shared path must be a shared or network filesystem (NFS,CIFS,etc) and the files to be loaded must be placed on the shared filesystem for the Gearman based loader to work.  This is because workers may run on multiple nodes and …