Rafa Alvarez

MySQL Database Consultant

Recent stories

pt-online -schema corner case: When you don’t want to replicate your alter activities across the whole cluster.


Intro When we want to perform a heavy ALTER TABLE against a several gigabytes table the options are quite a few but the ...

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How to restore MySQL data folder using persistent disk snapshots (GCP)


There are already many tools for MySQL to perform backups and consistent restores, but this time I’d like to elaborate ...

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