J-F Gagné's MySQL Blog

Or should I say to: "not to get soaked"... The Amsterdam weather forecasts  for next week is out  and it does not look so good d...

http://blog.booking.com/abstracting_binlog_servers_and_mysql_master_promotion_wo_reconfiguring_slaves.html Follow the link above to read m...

In my last Booking.com Hackathon , I worked on MyISAM vs InnoDB for data loading ( LOAD DATA IN FILE ) and bulk index creation.  My motivat...

My latest post is online on the Booking.com blog : Evaluating MySQL Parallel Replication Part 3: Benchmarks in Production .  In this post, ...

The link to the slides of my talks can be found at the end of this post but first, let me share some thoughts about PLMCE . Talking with p...

Note: DO NOT use this procedure in production, this is a proof of concept ( POC ).  MaxScale 1.1.0 does not yet fully support that procedur...

In the  Install and Configure HOWTO , we learned how to install and configure a MaxScale Binlog Server.  In this HOWTO, I will present the c...

Updated 2015-04-25 : add the link to the slides of my PLMCE talk and a link to a bug number. MaxScale 1.1.0 is out and includes the new  ...

Dealing with the failure of a MySQL master is not simple.  The most common solution is to promote a slave as the new master but in an enviro...

http://blog.booking.com/evaluating_mysql_parallel_replication_2-slave_group_commit.html Follow the link above to read my latest article on...

One year ago, I blogged about  Evaluation and Online Migration of MySQL 5.6 GTIDs .  At that time, we setup the following test environment w...

http://blog.booking.com/better_parallel_replication_for_mysql.html Follow the link above to read my latest article on the  Booking.com   d...

I just publish a post on the Booking.com blog: http://blog.booking.com/better_crash_safe_replication_for_mysql.html  Spoiler: it uses Binlo...

The other day, I was discussing high availability ( HA ) with other people.  The discussion was going in the direction of, as the applicatio...