Tag: rdbms

If you’ve used Google Maps for directions or “friended” someone on Facebook, you’ve experienced graph theory. Graph theory is all about connectedness, how things in the world relate to other things, and how those interactions affect the objects around them….

Oracle EBS (E-Business Suite) customers have always been left a little behind by technological innovations happening at Oracle. Since 18c, Oracle Database has offered a new feature called Read-Only Oracle home (OH). However I haven’t noticed much traction for this…

I’m glad to get back to blog writing and, after a bit of a break, I’m starting with a brief post. We DBAs have probably come across the RMAN (Recovery Manager) utility many times in our lives. We are also…

Oracle software is known for being complex, expensive, and even cumbersome. However, while legacy database management systems (DBMS) like Oracle often hang around well past their best before date – in many cases due to corporate inertia and well-worn habit…

Depending on your specific needs, your applications, the type and volume of your data, NoSQL could be the right choice as either a complementary technology to an existing RDBMS, or a complete replacement. Find out if NoSQL is right for your business.

In MySQL–land, failovers for redundancy, disaster recovery, or load balancing are performed by master databases and slave databases, the most popular method using binlog replication. There are a couple more methods of replication which aren’t covered here. Also see the MySQL Replication FAQ. The methods are the same, but the formatting of the procedure(s) are less than ideal.