Monthly archives for October, 2008
Updated: Monolith Toolkit – MyS...
Updated the release, sure it’s only been a matter of hours but I added the standard cnf files for 2,4,8 and 16GB server installations. Also added the rhcluster-wrapper script that can be used to run just about anything on the active database node when using mysql in an active/passive setup.
Download here: http://code.google.com/p/mon [...]
Sun OpenSource DB pushes a lot of tra...
Short thought: On relationalnews.com we’ve gotten 7142 articles in the last ~45 days. Of those, 3575 articles were syndicated from Sun OpenSource DB. That’s a lot of bloggers!
Monolith Toolkit – MySQL DBA to...
Today I decided to package all of my various scripts together into a useful toolkit. Some are perl, some are shell script. These scripts are, in general, one off scripts that I wrote in order to get things done that weren’t available at the time. Now they’re nicely organized and will receive updates at the google code repo.
So f [...]
Parallel mysqldump backup script avai...
Large databases, long mysqldump times, long waits for globally locked tables. These problems basically never go away when you rely on mysqldump with –all-databases or a list of databases, as it dumps schemas serially. I’m not going to explain serial vs parallel processing here since that’s a larger topic. Suffice to say th [...]
