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Feed: Planet MySQL. Author: Webyog. Many organizations have MySQL or MariaDB databases at the core of their business—for processing and storing product sales, collecting information related to services offered, or just providing essential information to customers. As a result, keeping these databases running continuously can be critical for the success of an organization.There are many components of a database system that a database administrator will need to consider for maintaining high availability. We considered server equipment (e.g., memory) in a previous introductory article. Now let’s look at using multiple servers for your MySQL and MariaDB databases—let’s look at replication. Replication ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL. Author: Webyog. Keeping databases running consistently and continuously is crucial to many organizations. When your site or application fails to load because of problems with your databases, you risk losing revenues—especially a businesses with a high traffic site which is the main source of revenues. If it happens often enough, you’ll lose not only transactions, but customers.There are many reasons why a database system may be unavailable, or at least not consistently available. It could be straightforward problems with your databases, or it could be hardware limitations. There are several potentially weak components of a database system ... Read More

Uber has been in the news for numerous reasons in the past few days. Be it expansion to new countries or selling its China operations to Didi chuxing, Uber is growing exponentially and expanding into newer markets. Recently, Uber also announced a major change – Changing their databases from Postgres to MySQL. While enterprises are constantly checking and trying to find the right fit for their databases, it takes immense research and analysis to decide on THE one. Each enterprise has their own requirements and it is imperative for the company to decide on the database that suits their needs ... Read More

Uber has been in the news for numerous reasons in the past few days. Be it expansion to new countries or selling its China operations to Didi chuxing, Uber is growing exponentially and expanding into newer markets. Recently, Uber also announced a major change – Changing their databases from Postgres to MySQL. While enterprises are constantly checking and trying to find the right fit for their databases, it takes immense research and analysis to decide on THE one. Each enterprise has their own requirements and it is imperative for the company to decide on the database that suits their needs ... Read More