Connector/NET 6.7 provides replication & load balancing configuration that allows to connect to master/slaves environments and at the same time balancing the request over all the available server in this scenario. This post will show you how to configure and use these new features on a console application.

So lets see how this goes.

This Thursday (October 22nd, 13:00 UTC), Walter Heck (of Open Query) will present Dual Master Setups With MMM. MMM (Multi-Master Replication Manager for MySQL) is a set of flexible scripts to perform monitoring/failover and management of MySQL master-master replication configurations (with only one node writable at any time). Session slides (PDF).

The toolset also has the ability to read balance standard master/slave configurations with any number of slaves, so you can use it to move virtual IP addresses around a group of servers depending on whether they are behind in replication. For more
information, see mysql-mmm.org.

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Last week I helped a customer setup a JBoss application against MySQL Cluster. It turns out it is not immediately obvious how you should setup our JDBC connector to do loadbalancing and failover. For instance, setting the connector up for an Master-Slave setup (with MySQL Enterprise) is well documented, but not doing the same with MySQL Cluster.

It's not really properly documented in the manual part, but I found in the changelogs, and confirmed on IRC that to do load-balancing across the SQL nodes in MySQL Cluster, you would use a different JDBC connection string with the "loadbalance" keyword added...

jdbc:mysql:loadbalance://host-1,host-2,...host-n/database

That does indeed …

Last week I helped a customer setup a JBoss application against MySQL Cluster. It turns out it is not immediately obvious how you should setup our JDBC connector to do loadbalancing and failover. For instance, setting the connector up for an Master-Slave setup (with MySQL Enterprise) is well documented, but not doing the same with MySQL Cluster.

It's not really properly documented in the manual part, but I found in the changelogs, and confirmed on IRC that to do load-balancing across the SQL nodes in MySQL Cluster, you would use a different JDBC connection string with the "loadbalance" keyword added...

jdbc:mysql:loadbalance://host-1,host-2,...host-n/database

That does indeed …

Last week I helped a customer setup a JBoss application against MySQL Cluster. It turns out it is not immediately obvious how you should setup our JDBC connector to do loadbalancing and failover. For instance, setting the connector up for an Master-Slave setup (with MySQL Enterprise) is well documented, but not doing the same with MySQL Cluster.

It's not really properly documented in the manual part, but I found in the changelogs, and confirmed on IRC that to do load-balancing across the SQL nodes in MySQL Cluster, you would use a different JDBC connection string with the "loadbalance" keyword added...

jdbc:mysql:loadbalance://host-1,host-2,...host-n/database

That does indeed …