How do you stay on top of your Oracle MySQL monitoring? Here are five ways to do just that. 1. Determine if you have rogue users or databases that are not secure. If you have users that are able to connect from anywhere in the world by using % as hosts, then you should be […]
CIOs and IT managers are wary of the technology they chose to invest in becoming obsolete, or the company behind this technology stopping development. This brings to mind Oracle acquiring MySQL around five years ago, amidst endless debates of whether Oracle would be a good or bad thing for MySQL. However, the good news for […]
MySQL is considered to be the most popular open source database in the world, a platform that you can rely on if you need high performance, scalable and reliable databases. Original equipment manufacturers, independent software vendors and value added resellers that offer read-intensive applications would find MySQL Classic Edition as the perfect embedded database for […]
Both your business needs and the technology that supports these needs are always changing, so it follows that your database does change, too. The good news is that if you are using Oracle products and software, you are sure that some of the world’s best programmers and engineers are working hard to help keep […]
MySQL Embedded gives you a full-featured database with absolutely no administration required. This means that you get everything that you need and expect out of a database without the hassles. Sounds good? Yes it is and Oracle has at least 3,000 original equipment manufacturers, value added resellers and independent software vendors who are currently relying […]
MySQL Fabric allows you to manage MySQL Server farms and one of its features helps you scale out by data sharding. It supports both range and hash-based sharding and is split between server and client. For the server, you will be using the XML-RPC server and the mysqlfabric utility. For the client, you will be […]
AWS CloudFormation allows you to make and manage AWS resources. You could also deploy and update these resources in a way that is both predictable and orderly. You can create your own templates to help you run your applications easily, taking away the guess work when it comes to the order in which these requirements […]
MySQL Fabric is a framework to help you manage farms of MySQL Servers and help make these servers highly available and scalable. These features may be used together or on their own, and are carried out in two separate layers. The first is using the mysqlfabric method that deals with any management request. When […]
MySQL has always been known for its high performance, ready scalability and high reliability. So, it is really no surprise that the open source database is the most popular in the world. Oracle, however, has been able to improve on an already good thing. On March 31, 2014, Oracle announced that they have just […]
This is the second part of the article. You can read part 1 here. The job of a MySQL administrator includes knowing how to scale MySQL systems depending on what’s required of these systems. It could be that high availability is the most important criteria. Or it could be that your users would need query […]
