AKA Cluster Error Voting…
What is Cluster Error Voting (CEV)?
“Cluster Error Voting is a new feature implemented by Alexey Yurchenko, and it is a protocol for nodes to decide how the cluster will react to problems in replication. When one or several nodes have an issue applying an incoming transaction(s) (e.g., suspected inconsistency), this new […]
There is a common pattern in life, you often discover or understand things by accident. Many scientific discoveries fit such a description. In our database world, I was looking to see how BLOB/TEXT columns are allocated using overlay pages and I stumbled upon something interesting and unexpected. Let me present to you my findings, […]
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This blog post will show how to compile the Percona XtraBackup (PXB) tool for ARM. For this, we are going to use an AWS EC2 ARM instance with Ubuntu 20.04(Focal Fossa).
The motivation for this was born in my interest in the new generation of ARM processors and if this is a viable option for […]
Multi-writer replication has been a challenge in the MySQL ecosystem for years before truly dedicated solutions were introduced – first Galera (and so Percona XtradDB Cluster (PXC)) replication (around 2011), and then Group Replication (first GA in 2016).
Now, with both multi-writer technologies available, do we still need traditional asynchronous replication, set up in active-active […]
DBAs are important cogs in the availability, performance, and security of your data. Getting a great DBA is one of the most important things any company can do to ensure their database operations continue working without a problem. So how do you find great DBAs?
In this post I’m going to show you some of […]
