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MySQL 5.6’s new replication features: Benefits, Limitations and Challenges

October 21, 2013
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Stephane Combaudon
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MySQL 5.6's new replication featuresOn Wednesday I’ll be leading a webinar exploring MySQL 5.6’s new replication features. And yes, as usual I’ll deliver news on the good, the bad and the ugly (that is to say the benefits, limitations and challenges).

The webinar, appropriately titled, “New Replication Features in MySQL 5.6: Benefits, Limitations, and Challenges“, is scheduled for Oct. 23 at 10 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time. You can register now to reserve your spot (this webinar will also be available for playback afterward).

This session aims at exploring some of these new replication features in MySQL 5.6 including:

  • Binlog checksums
  • Crash-safe replication
  • Multi-threaded replication
  • Global transaction identifiers

You will learn which problems they are likely to solve and how they can improve the performance or the resilience of your application. We’ll also discuss their limitations and the challenges you may face while trying to implement them.

I’ll be answering questions afterward but feel free to ask yours below in the comments.

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Jacob Nikom
Jacob Nikom
12 years ago

Hi STephane,

It was nice to listen to your presentation.

Where I can find the slides?
Usually Percona presenters have them on the webinar page, but I did not find any.

Where you would advice me to go?

Best regards,

Jacob Nikom

Jacob Nikom
Jacob Nikom
12 years ago

Hi Stephane,

I have another question about your webinar. It is about crash safety of GTID-based replication.
You said that replication tables don’t contain GRID information.

Why it is necessary for crash safety? How it influences the master and slave recovery after master crash?
What about slave crash – is it important?

Best regards,

Jacob Nikom

Vlad Fratila
Vlad Fratila
12 years ago

Hey, nice webinar, keep up the good stuff!

I was the one asking about RDS, and specifically about enabling crash-safe replication. Once I knew what to enable, it was easy: I looked in RDS and by default, all 3 params are enabled.

PS: There’s a problem with the recording, audio cuts off, and there’s a big portion around crash-safe rep that’s without audio.
It’s worth noting that the audio during the webinar was ok.

Kep
Kep
12 years ago

Stephane,

Unfortunately, the link for the webinar doesn’t work:

https://www.percona.com/resources/mysql-webinars/new-replication-features-mysql-56-benefits-limitations-and-challenges
returns “Page not found”

Rahul Bansal
12 years ago

I missed this webinar.

Is recording available?

Tom Diederich
12 years ago

Hi Rahul,

Yes, all Percona MySQL webinars are recorded. Here’s the url to this one: https://www.percona.com/resources/mysql-webinars/new-replication-features-mysql-56-benefits-limitations-and-challenges

Tom

Rahul Bansal
12 years ago

Thanks Tom. 🙂

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