High Availability (HA) ensures all important business information is available for your application even when there is no database failure. This includes:

How about when you are upgrading your database schema? What if you need to add memory to a database server or reconfigure/restart MySQL? If your apps want to read data from a MySQL slave, how can you be sure they are not reading stale data

Join us at this MySQL community event with Continuent database rockstars. "State of the art of MySQL High Availability and Replication" in Barcelona, November 13th at 7pm. Reserve your seat at http://mysql-high-availability.eventbrite.es.

MySQL is the world’s most popular open-source database, and powers websites and applications of numerous leading and fast-growing organizations. In this

Within hours of my post about meeting the MySQL community in Barcelona, we got several offers to help, and within one day, an event was created and agreed upon.

Thanks!

Today the event was posted at Evenbrite. It will take place on Tuesday, November 13th, at 7pm. It will be a one hour talk about State of the art in MySQL high availability and replication, followed by one hour of Q&A, networking, beer, and snacks.

Registration is necessary, because the seats are limited. If you want to attend, you should register as soon as possible!

Update: With the enthusiastic responses that we have received from Barcelona, there is now an event defined at Evenbrite. If you are in Barcelona on November 13th, please register!

My company, Continuent, will have an engineering meeting in Barcelona, Spain, from November 11th to 16th.

We are meeting because, as we all work from home, we need to get in touch face-to-face at least a few times a year, and every time we try choosing a nice, inspiring place where we can both work and relax. This time, the choice went to Barcelona, which happens to be one of my favorite towns.

Now comes the community. We build software that is mainly directed to MySQL users (although we also dedicate much effort to replication to and from Oracle, Postgres, MongoDB). We use MySQL a …

A Pattern for a Newly Hired DBA? I don’t think this experience is unique. It has been shared repeatedly among those starting a job as a DBA (database administrator) at a new company, especially when the organization has never had a dedicated DBA. The conversation usually goes something like this: – “Welcome aboard <insert name here>! Here [...] …

I have been asked many times to provide an easy way of deploying fan-in and star schema replication schemas. So far, I have been delayed by more pressing duties.

Now the time has come. Since we are about to release a new version of Tungsten Replicator, I made the effort of putting together the steps for an easy deployment.

Recipes

The package (with downloads and svn code available at Tungsten-Replicator Toolbox) includes some juicy goodies. There are recipes to install.

• Master/slave, the classic replication topology. Nothing fancy, but with the tools mentioned in the next section, it becomes as valuable as the other topologies.
• All-masters. This is the Tungsten no-SPOF topology. Every node is a master, and every node has a …

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Oracle is the most powerful database system in the world. However, Oracle's expensive and complex replication makes it difficult to build highly available applications or move data in real-time to data warehouses and popular databases like MySQL. 

In this video (recording of our live webcast on 10/18/12) you will learn how Continuent Tungsten solves problems with Oracle replication at a

Oracle is the most powerful database system in the world. However, Oracle's expensive and complex replication makes it difficult to build highly available applications or move data in real-time to data warehouses and popular databases like MySQL. In this webinar you will learn how Continuent Tungsten solves problems with Oracle replication at a fraction of the cost of other solutions and with

Cross-site databases are the next challenge facing today's MySQL-based businesses. Continuent Tungsten provides multiple options for spreading data across sites, including primary/DR, multi-master, and system-of-record approaches. Learn how Continuent Tungsten enables replication, failover, and routing of transactions between sites. 

In this video (recording of our webinar on 10/11/12) we