Tag: MySQL

Having good historial metrics monitoring in place is critical for properly operating, maintaining and troubleshooting database systems, and Percona Monitoring and Management is one of the options we recommend to our clients for this. One common concern among potential users…

While investigating alternatives to migrate to Google Cloud SQL, I encountered a lack of support for external masters. However, it’s possible to overcome this limitation by replicating into Google Cloud SQL using Tungsten replicator. Cloud SQL is Google’s database-as-a-service solution,…

Recently there have been several issues reported to me about DDL activity causing MySQL crash scenarios. In one case it stemmed from dropping multiple databases, one after the other in rapid succession. But in the case that I was recently…

In this post I will show you how to leverage Github’s gh-ost hooks for greatly improving visibility of ongoing schema changes for your organization. One of the potential uses of gh-ost hooks is to send status updates. I will present you with…

This edition of Log Buffer covers Cloud, Oracle, SQL Server and MySQL and much more.

While cloud technologies are roaring ahead in full force; the traditional RDBMS like Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server and MySQL are adapting pretty fast. This Log Buffer Edition covers blogs related to that and more.

As we know, replication is only supported officially between consecutive major MySQL versions, and only from a lower version master to a higher version slave. This means for example, the following scenario is supported: 5.6 master –> 5.7 slave while these…

This Log Buffer Edition covers Oracle, SQL Server and MySQL.

This Log Buffer Edition covers Oracle, SQL Server and MySQL.

This Log Buffer Edition covers Oracle, SQL Server and MySQL.