In the first post in this series, Yabin Meng, Datastax Enterprise and Apache Cassandra Consultant at Pythian, explains his approach to migrating dynamic thrift data to CQL.

Ivan Groenewold, MySQL Database Consultant at Pythian, explains how to configure replication between Tungsten clusters in MySQL.

Overview Cloud storage is becoming more and more popular for offsite storage and DR solutions for many businesses. This post will help with those people that want to perform this process for MySQL backups directly into Amazon S3 Storage. These…

Ivan Groenewold, MySQL Database Consultant at Pythian breaks down InnoDB flushing and Linux I/O.

Ivan Groenewold, MySQL Database Consultant at Pythian, discusses reserved words usage in MySQL.

Valerie Parham Thompson, Lead Database Consultant at Pythian, walks through enabling encryption for MySQL 5.7.

Jared Still, Pythian Principle Consultant and Oracle ACE, explains how using xargs with find can greatly speed up maintenance scripts and reduce system resource usage.

Kevin Markwardt, MySQL Database Consultant at Pythian, provides an in-depth look at MySQL 5.6+ DDL.

Yabin Meng, Datastax Enterprise and Apache Cassandra Consultant at Pythian, discusses the DataStax OpsCenter upgrade (4.1 to 5.1) for Cassandra.

Fahd Mirza, Pythian Database Expert and Oracle ACE, contemplates how SQLServer on Linux will bring positive changes the DBA role.