With a partner we are planning and Advanced MySQL DBA workshop. As the name says it should be a workshop. Its planned duration is 2 days. So within 2 days we can cover 4 to 8 topics more deeply.

Requirements: VirtualBox, VMware, own Laptop?

Possible exercises during the workshop

• Set-up a Master-Master replication with 2 Slaves
• Load balance on master with MySQL Proxy and on Slaves with LVS.

What you get

With our FromDual DBA Emergency Intervention Service you get your serious MySQL database problems quickly solved. This DBA Emergency Intervention typically happens from remote.

• Our best MySQL DBA's care about your problem.
• We try to bring your system back on-line as quick as possible.
• We try to recover your lost data if possible.
• We assist you doing your database restore and recovery.
• We set your new system up after a hardware failure and help you ramping-up your service again.

What you get

With this service you get your regular DBA work done. The difference to our Remote-DBA Service is that our specialist come on-site to your location.

• You get our MySQL DBA working for you on-site.
• You can buy a certain amount of days of DBA work to be performed: The minimum amount is 5 consecutive days.
• According to your business needs your standard database operation work is done on-site by our MySQL DBA's. This includes for example:

What you get

With our Remote-DBA Service you get your regular DBA work done.

With one of its partners FromDual plans to offer an Advanced MySQL DBA Workshop. The first workshop should run in November 2010.

To offer the best possible contents to the participants we want your feedback about the proposed topics, about the missing topics and what you think in general about such a workshop.

Please let us know your opinion. Either as comment on our web-site or for our eyes only at Feedback.

Thank you for your participation.

FromDual plant, mit einem seiner Partner, einen MySQL DBA Workshop für Fortgeschrittene anzubieten. Die erste Durchführung soll im November 2010 erfolgen.

Um den Teilnehmern den bestmöglichen Inhalt anbieten zu können, würden wir gerne Ihre Meinung über den geplanten Inhalt, fehlende Punkte und was Sie im allgemeinen über diesen Workshop denken, hören.

With a partner we are planning and Advanced MySQL DBA workshop. As the name says it should be a workshop. Its planned duration is 2 days. So within 2 days we can cover 4 to 8 topics more deeply.

Requirements: VirtualBox, VMware, own Laptop?

Possible exercises during the workshop

• Set-up a Master-Master replication with 2 Slaves
• Load balance on master with MySQL Proxy and on Slaves with LVS.

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Oh no, it's not. It's much harder than that!
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Iostat is a very handy tool to help you investigating what kind of performance problems you have. Especially your databases can cause a lot of troubles to your I/O system and thus it would be very nice if every DBA has installed iostat on all of his MySQL database servers.