The announcement of Percona XtraDB Cluster seems to have generated a fair bit of interest : ) Although the documentation contains more formal instructions for setting up a test cluster, I wanted to share a quick way to set up an ad-hoc cluster on a single machine to help people play with this (imho) rather [...] [...more]
Upgrades are usually one of the biggest part of any database infrastructure maintenance. Even with enough planning something else can go bad after sending your production application to the version you’ve upgraded to. Let’s look at how one Percona Toolkit tool, pt-upgrade can help you identify what to expect and test your upgrades better which [...] [...more]
FreeBSD Foundation and iXsystems announce IPv6-only test images of FreeBSD and PC-BSD. View full post on FreeBSD News Flash [...more]
> cd tests> ./dbqp –mode=randgen –start-and-exit –suite=slave_plugin BOOM. DONE. WINNING. View full post on Planet Drizzle [...more]
Open Source Trivia Test InfoWorld’s Neil McAllister offers 20 questions to test your knowledge of the open source and free software movements. Which was the first commercial Linux distribution? How many separate clauses make up the typical BSD-style open source license? What is the difference between the GPL and the LGPL? Read more on OSNews [...more]
