Re: MySQL grant use?

2010-07-25 Thread der.hans
Am 24. Jul, 2010 schwätzte Alex Dean so: moin moin, I think you should consider replicating to multiple slaves. 1 is for backup, and is totally read-only. That's my goal. First I need to get all of the DBen going to at least one slave and make sure we've backing up everything that needs to

Re: MySQL grant use?

2010-07-25 Thread der.hans
Am 24. Jul, 2010 schwätzte Bryan O'Neal so: I agree with Alex but this just follows logical design of separation. You dev, qa, prod, ha, and dr environments should be separated and used for those set purposes. Unfortunately I also know that if this most elementary step has not been take it is

Re: MySQL grant use?

2010-07-25 Thread der.hans
Am 24. Jul, 2010 schwätzte Bryan O'Neal so: Sadly Number of physical boxes is usually not the issue with resource bottle neck; it is that you are always running close to capacity and can not convince anyone to purchase more equipment because things are running fine. Double the number of fsyncs

Re: UK Government says, Dump Microsoft

2010-07-25 Thread der.hans
Am 23. Jul, 2010 schwätzte keith smith so: It is great the Government is using some open source / free software.  And they also released some into the public domain is great.  I would also offer a word of caution - make sure any software the government released is free from any type of

Re: MySQL grant use?

2010-07-25 Thread Bryan O'Neal
replication is not always perfect in MySQL - Innodb is less pron to error but it still happens. Do your best to kill myisam. What verifying myisam and innodb copies of the same data are exactly the same? Actually, I want something that will diff them and apply the diff to the innodb side.

Re: MySQL grant use?

2010-07-25 Thread Bryan O'Neal
Read only I believe is a server wide var, but again, I am not certain. Replication should also be server wide , ie. no replication rules, including which databases should be considered for replication. Just recently learned what kind of problems it can cause otherwise. On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at

ABLEconf mtg Sunday night

2010-07-25 Thread der.hans
moin moin, we're having an ABLEconf planning meeting Sunday night at 20:00 in the #ABLEconf IRC channel on Freenode. www.ABLEconf.com ciao, der.hans -- # http://www.LuftHans.com/Classeshttp://www.TwoGeekTechs.com/ # Director of Engineering, FonWallet Transaction Solutions, Inc. #

Saw this off Slashdot - 200 Linux machine

2010-07-25 Thread Stephen
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,2845,2366841,00.asp It's not bad really for just a desktop to get online and type with. -- A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. Stephen

Re: MySQL grant use?

2010-07-25 Thread Alex Dean
On Jul 25, 2010, at 3:03 AM, der.hans wrote: I'm needing to convert a very busy production myisam table that is somewhat humongous to innodb and the conversion takes longer than the maintenance windows. If you have a slave which is capable of becoming a production server, you can convert

Re: MySQL grant use?

2010-07-25 Thread Technomage
On 7/25/10 3:46 PM, Alex Dean wrote: On Jul 25, 2010, at 3:03 AM, der.hans wrote: I'm needing to convert a very busy production myisam table that is somewhat humongous to innodb and the conversion takes longer than the maintenance windows. If you have a slave which is capable of becoming a