Until recently, I was a student employee at the Oregon State University Open Source Lab. My career there ended, like many, with that painful process known as graduation. I got invaluable experience at the lab, not the least of which being the knowledge gained as their main (only) database administrator. One of my great pleasures in that position, was learning how to configure MySQL replication and manage clusters of replicating database servers. Even the simple case of a single master and a single slave has its edge cases.

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MySQL Replication Series (tip #1): what should be replicated and what should not be replicated?

Monday, April 21, 2008

Welcome to Tip #1 in MySQL Replication Series. In this tip we will go over what to do when you only want to replicate certain data to slave(s). Most general way to tell what is replicated to which slave is to include following configuration directive in my.cnf file depending on your environment and [...]

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MySQL Replication Series: How does MySQL replication works?

Thursday, April 17, 2008

Setting up replication is not hard and can be done by following simple directions. You can learn setting up two type of replication MySQL offers here: master-master replication and master-slave replication. Once you have replication set up, you can start playing with it without doing any more changes to the configuration. But let us face [...]

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