JFG Posted on the Percona Community Blog - A Nice Feature in MariaDB 10.3: no InnoDB Buffer Pool in Core Dumps

I just posted an article on the Percona Community Blog.  You can access it following this link:

• A Nice Feature in MariaDB 10.3: no InnoDB Buffer Pool in Core Dumps

I do not know if I will stop publishing posts on my personal blog or use both, I will see how things go.  In the rest of this post, I will share why I published there and how things went in the process.

MaxScale Binlog Server HOWTO: Operations (including Chaining)

In the Install and Configure HOWTO, we learned how to install and configure a MaxScale Binlog Server.  In this HOWTO, I will present the common operations that you might need to perform when using this software.  Those operations include:

• Purging Binary Logs,
• Chaining Binlog Servers,
• Saving Binary Log Files in the Non-Default Directory,
• Downloading Binary Logs other than First,
• Listing Connected Slaves,
• Disconnecting one or all Slaves,
• Differentiating a MaxScale from a MySQL Server,
• Getting More Information about Slaves (and more),
• Recovering After a Crash.