Hi !

I’m starting a small series of videocast related to MySQL Group Replication.

As I blogged earlier this year about Single-Primary or Multi-Primary Group Replication cluster, one of the limitation of using a cluster in Multi-Primary mode is the risk linked to concurrent DDLs (as ALTER STATEMENTS).

In Group Replication, DDLs are not isolating the full cluster and write operations are not blocked. But this may lead to problems if you change the same table on two different nodes at the same time for example. This is the topic of today’s videocast:

I’m at the Sun Tech Days in beautiful Philippines, and all I can say is the energy is tremendous. I’m hearing there are about 1,400 attendees, and this number might grow tomorrow.

Armed with a video camera, I decided to take a few video snapshots. My first victimguest on my yet to be named videocast is Wen Huang, Product Manager for NetBeans, at Sun Microsystems.

Wen Huang has been a MySQL user since 1999, and had a past life as a web developer in various web shops, some large, some small. One commonality he had at all his jobs though is that they always use MySQL.

He’s an action junkie, preferring to have the latest version of the MySQL database all the time, and can’t wait for MySQL 5.1 when …