Make It Faster: Improving MySQL Write Performance for Tungsten Cluster Slaves

Author: , September 26th, 2019

Make It Faster: Improving MySQL Write Performance for Tungsten Cluster Slaves

Zero-Downtime Cluster Maintenance: Comparing the Procedures for Upgrades versus DB/OS Maintenance

Author: , August 26th, 2019

Zero-Downtime Cluster Maintenance: Comparing the Procedures for Upgrades versus DB/OS Maintenance

How to move the Relay role to another node in a Composite Tungsten Cluster

Author: , July 25th, 2019

How to move the Relay role to another node in a Composite Tungsten Cluster

Slick Command-Line Tricks for a Tungsten MySQL / MariaDB Database Cluster

Author: , July 16th, 2019

Tungsten Clustering provides high availability, disaster recovery, and a host of other benefits for MySQL / MariaDB / Percona Server databases. In this blog post we will explore some of the shell aliases I use every day to administer various Tungsten Clusters.

What on Earth is a Split-Brain Scenario in a MySQL Database Cluster?

Author: , June 24th, 2019

In this blog post we will define what a split-brain scenario means in a MySQL database cluster, and then explore how a Tungsten MySQL database cluster reacts to a split-brain situation.

Configuring the Tungsten Connector for PCI Compliance

Author: , June 18th, 2019

This blog is about configuring Tungsten for PCI compliance.

Using Keep-Alives To Ensure Long-Running MySQL & MariaDB Sessions Stay Connected

Author: , June 14th, 2019

Overview The Skinny In this blog post we will discuss how to use the Tungsten Connector keep-alive feature to ensure long-running MySQL & MariaDB/Percona Server client sessions stay connected in a Tungsten Cluster. Agenda What’s Here? Briefly explore how the Tungsten Connector works Describe the Connector keep-alives – what are they and why do we […]

The Important Role of a Tungsten Rollback Error

Author: , May 24th, 2019

The Question Recently, a customer asked us: What is the meaning of this error message found in trepsvc.log? 2019/05/14 01:48:04.973 | mysql02.prod.example.com | [east – binlog-to-q-0] INFO pipeline.SingleThreadStageTask Performing rollback of possible partial transaction: seqno=(unavailable) Simple Overview The Skinny This message is an indication that we are dropping any uncommitted or incomplete data read from […]

Understanding Cross-Site Replication in a Tungsten Composite Multi-Master Cluster for MySQL, MariaDB and Percona Server

Author: , May 22nd, 2019

Overview The Skinny In this blog post we will discuss how the managed cross-site replication streams work in a Composite Multi-Master Tungsten Cluster for MySQL, MariaDB and Percona Server. Agenda What’s Here? Briefly explore how managed cross-site replication works in a Tungsten Composite Multi-Master Cluster Describe the reasons why the default design was chosen Explain […]

Performance Tuning Tungsten Replication to MySQL

Author: , May 21st, 2019

The Question Recently, a customer asked us: Why would Tungsten Replicator be slow to apply to MySQL? The Answer Performance Tuning 101 When you run trepctl status and see: appliedLatency : 7332.394 like this on a slave, it is almost always due to the inability for the target database to keep up with the applier. […]