Semi OT: MySQL memory probs...

[Craig White]

On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 16:07 -0600, alex at crackpot.org wrote:
> Quoting Craig White <craig at 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.
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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