I am setting up an evaluation copy of Windows 2012 Server on a VM to run some tests for an upcoming webinar, and after more than a decade without installing Windows, I am pleasantly surprised by the honesty of the estimation: "Your computer will restart several times. This might take...

On October 15 and 16 I'll take the ferry to be at the MySQL NoSQL Cloud conference in Buenos Aires, and the schedule looks really nice so far. I think it's a great opportunity for people in this region to get up to date with what's going on in the...

I'll be attending Percona Live NY 2012 next month, co-presenting a tutorial with Marcos Albe (also from Percona) and a couple of sessions with Marcos and Ryan Lowe (of Square). On Monday, Marcos and I will be doing a hands on tutorial on Percona Toolkit, and on Tuesday, Ryan will...

Here's a simple shell script to stream data to multiple processes. It has many applications, but the reason I wrote it is to stream the same data to multiple netcat processes on remote machines. Here's the code: #!/bin/bash usage() { cat <<EOF>&2 usage : multi-fifo target0 [target1 [target2 [...]]] Where...

High Availability MySQL Cookbook (Alex Davies, Packt Publishing) presents different approaches to achieve high availability with MySQL. The bulk of the book is dedicated to MySQL Cluster, with shorter sections on: MySQL replication shared storage block level replication performance tuning The recipes are clear and well explained, based on a...