Posted by Andrew Moore on Apr 17, 2012
I’m not the first and certainly won’t be the last to echo the universally shared opinion that Percona’s first time at the helm of the MySQL Conference and Expo in Santa Clara was a roaring success. All of last year’s FUD surrounding their adoption of the main MySQL event was dispelled with room to wiggle. I had attended the Percona Live in London back in October of 2011 to witness first hand their conference organizing ability and it has been optimised from great to awesome since October. After reading some tweets from @xarbp it was apparent that the conference was going to be well attended and I knew of many travelling from far afield.
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Posted by Andrew Moore on Oct 18, 2011
The MySQL errorlog is an important point of reference when administering a MySQL Server. We can grasp much about the state of our MySQL instance by the informational and error messages written out to it by our MySQL daemon. Our monitoring suite is set up to check the mysqld error log file periodically for any new nasties logged and then it alerts us if there’s anything to know about. Recently I was asked to investigate some replication outage alerts a colleague had received overnight. One of the primary directions I took was the error log file. This is where I would expect find any evidence of replication being stopped or crashes etc – I was looking for anything that could fill me in on the causes of replication alerts. When I ran the command to tail the log I was shocked to see the log was totally empty. Read the rest of this entry . . .
