Preparing Your Databases For a COVID Battle with ClusterControl
During these COVID-ridden days, chances are that your database instances are facing a lot of problems. Some of these problems might be related to performance issues (we mean, have you ever thought about how many...
Overview of SQL Server Requirements on Linux and Comparison with Windows SQL Server
In a previous article, Introduction to SQL Server on Linux, we learned about the SQL Server on Linux overview, features, performance, and high-availability concepts at a high level. Traditionally, SQL Server is a Windows-based relational...
Introduction to SQL Server on Linux
Microsoft SQL Server is an excellent choice for a relational database with key benefits including performance, security, reliability, and total cost of ownership. A few exciting features of SQL Server are outlined below: SQL Server...
Microsoft SQL Server on Linux coming soon to ClusterControl
It is our mission to provide support for the most popular databases so that ops teams only need one control plane to automate their database lifecycle operations. That’s why we’re excited to announce our upcoming...
How to verify a backup?
Backups are a must in all Disaster Recovery Plans, and in general, all companies have implemented them in some way. The question is, what happens if, in case of failure, you need to restore a...
Benchmarking databases 101 – part 2
In the previous blog post we have discussed a couple of best practices related to benchmarking. This time we would like to talk about the process itself. What can go wrong, what are the potential...
Need Performance Advice? Turn To ClusterControl!
If you frequently find yourself working with any kind of database, it’s natural that you might need some advice on how to deal with them at least once in a while. At present, you might...
MySQL Security with ClusterControl
If you are an experienced MySQL DBA, you probably already know how important MySQL security is. For you, security comes without any question - you already secured your database instances from the get-go: as soon...
The Common MySQL error: “Got an error reading communication packet”
MySQL is the second famous database in the world according to the DB Engine website behind Oracle. What makes MySQL famous is probably because it is a very fast, reliable and flexible Database Management System....
Redis vs DynamoDB (a comparison)
What is Redis? Redis (which means Remote Dictionary Serve) is an open-source NoSQL database known to be a fast, in-memory key-value data store, cache, message broker, and queue. The project started by Salvatore 'antirez' Sanfilippo,...
What’s new in ProxySQL?
Quite recently ProxySQL has changed the way it names new releases. To avoid confusion we’d like to go over it a bit. In the past, we had two branches: 1.4.x and 2.0.x where new features...
Webinar Replay: Top Five Tips to Drive MariaDB Galera Cluster Performance for Nextcloud
Are you a MariaDB database administrator that is facing problems regarding your Galera Cluster implementations? Perhaps you even tried to make it work in harmony with Nextcloud? If you have answered “yes” to any of...