Archive for August, 2010

Scenario: Master-Master replication Description: Master A is the active db server whilst Master B is a read only swappable db server hence both are creating binary logs. During backup I run “FLUSH LOGS” in order to have a simpler point in time recovery procedure if that case arises. Problem: Flush logs is mean mean command [...]

Sometimes we have some special need for a stored procedure to call another to do something. That is fine, but what if the second stored proc failed for some reason? Maybe you want to halt the first stored procedure (the caller) and not proceed with the work until the problem is verified and resolved. So [...]

Lets paint the picture: Scenario part 1 : Migrating a couple thousand stored procedures from database technology X to mysql Scenario part 2 : Legacy system where the people who wrote it left a long time ago Scenario part 3 : Developers sure can get real creative and invent all kinds of ways to get [...]