On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 16:07 -0600,
alex@crackpot.org wrote:
> Quoting Craig White <craig@tobyhouse.com>:
>
> > ----
> > btw...a bit pricey but I just got an e-mail, MySQL database
> > administrator class coming to Salt Lake City March 17-21
> >
> > http://www.mysql.com/training/workshops/mysql_dba.html
> >
> > and high availability in Phoenix Feb 18-20
> >
> > http://www.mysql.com/training/courses/mysql_5_ha.html
> >
> > Craig
> >
>
> I attended the HA class last fall. Unless you've got a company paying
> to send you, I'd say don't bother. It's way too expensive.
>
> * You'll get a very general introduction to a few ways to do HA for
> MySQL. You'll hear about drbd, but not actually set it up. (BTW,
> this isn't really that hard.)
> * You'll spend most of a day setting up MySQL Cluster, which is a
> niche product useful in only a handful of circumstances. Basically,
> it's great if you need an extremely available hash table. If you need
> a general purpose DBMS, MySQL Cluster is not a good idea.
> * You won't get much of any information on performance tuning. HA !=
> performance.
----
yeah, I kind of thought that the database administrator class was the
better concept but that isn't being held in Phoenix this go round.
Craig
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