Do not forget the What's New in Managing MySQL Cluster webinar on Wednesday the 11th. Learn about NDBINFO, MySQL Cluster Manager, and MySQL Cluster Adviser & Graphs -- three new enhancements. And the webinar is free!

Please register at http://mysql.com/news-and-events/web-seminars/display-599.html

Clustered computing brings with it many benefits: high performance, high availability, scalable infrastructure, etc.  But it also brings with it more complexity.

Why ?  Well, by its very nature, there are more "moving parts" to monitor and manage (from physical, virtual and logical hosts) to fault detection and failover software to redundant networking components - the list goes on.  And a cluster that isn't effectively provisioned and managed will cause more downtime than the standalone systems it is designed to improve upon.  Not so great....

When it comes to the database industry, analysts already estimate that 50% of a typical database's Total Cost of Ownership is attributable to staffing and downtime costs.  These costs will only increase if a database cluster is to hard to properly administer.

Over the past 9 months, monitoring and management has been a major focus in the …

Clustered computing brings with it many benefits: high performance, high availability, scalable infrastructure, etc.  But it also brings with it more complexity.

Why ?  Well, by its very nature, there are more "moving parts" to monitor and manage (from physical, virtual and logical hosts) to fault detection and failover software to redundant networking components - the list goes on.  And a cluster that isn't effectively provisioned and managed will cause more downtime than the standalone systems it is designed to improve upon.  Not so great....

When it comes to the database industry, analysts already estimate that 50% of a typical database's Total Cost of Ownership is attributable to staffing and downtime costs.  These costs will only increase if a database cluster is to hard to properly administer.

Over the past 9 months, monitoring and management has been a major focus in the …

I’ll be presenting on MySQL Cluster at Oracle OpenWorld in Beeijing next week – the conference runs from 13th through to 16th December, you can register here. The MySQL Cluster session is on Thursday at 11:45 in room E2-235.

I’ll also be helping with the demos of MySQL Cluster, WorkBench and MySQL Enterprise Monitor - if you’re at the conference, please pop round to booth DMI-13 in the Oracle Demo Grounds.

The convergence of telecommunications onto IP (Internet Protocol) based networks is revolutionizing today's communications industry. Communications Service Providers (CSPs) are challenged to deliver compelling new personalized services with greater agility and lower costs than ever before.

Whether they are looking to deploy new Web/Telco 2.0 applications to mobile Internet users or consolidating subscriber data within the network to support greater service personalization and targeted communications, the database plays a key role in enabling new services.

We believe MySQL is pretty much unique in the industry by providing the insight and experience to marry the innovation and speed of the Web with the proven capabilities of the carrier network. MySQL is deployed in 9 of the top 10 most trafficked sites on the web [1] including Google, Facebook and YouTube.  MySQL is also extensively deployed in the network domain, …

The binary version for MySQL Cluster 7.1.9 has now been made available at http://www.mysql.com/downloads/cluster/

A description of all of the changes (fixes) that have gone into MySQL Cluster 7.1.9 (compared to 7.1.8) can be found in the official MySQL Cluster documentation. In addition, there is a great BLOG posting from Johan Anderson explaining how to use the new table added to ndbinfo to tune DiskPageBufferMemory when storing tables on disk.

The binary version for MySQL Cluster 6.3.39 has now been made available at http://www.mysql.com/downloads/cluster/

A description of all of the changes (fixes) that have gone into MySQL Cluster 6.3.39 (compared to 6.3.38) can be found in the official MySQL Cluster documentation.

The UK Oracle User Group Conference runs from 29th November through 1st December 2010 – the MySQL content is on Wednesday 1st at the ICC in Birmingham. This is a great chance for MySQL users to find out more on the latest developments and question some of the experts (both from inside and outside Oracle) and for Oracle users who don’t have experience with MySQL to discover what it’s all about.

The day starts with a keynote from Rich Mason (VP responsible for MySQL sales) at 8:45; I’ll be part of a …

The confusion about whether MySQL Community Edition still included InnoDB seems now to have dissipated. Thank you to Sheeri Cabral, Darren Cassar and all of you who helped correct the misperception created by catchy headlines. In part, the confusion was caused by people assuming that the MySQL Classic Edition (an option for embedding that has been around for a long time) is the same as MySQL Community Edition...not so. We have made appropriate changes to our web page to …

MySQL Enterprise Monitor with MySQL Cluster

A few months ago, I posted a walkthrough of how to extend MySQL Enterprise Monitor in order to monitor MySQL Cluster. The great news is that as of MySQL Enterprise Monitor 2.3 (available from Oracle E-Delivery since 1st November) this functionality is included in the core product and so there is no need to add the extra features in manually. Of course, that post might still be of interest if you want to further extend MySQL Enterprise Monitor.

This post briefly steps through the new (Cluster-specific) functionality but if you’re interested, why not try it for yourself and download the new …