MySQL Cluster is positioned as an attractive way to connect servers, providing the benefits of high availability, redundancy, elimination of downtime, and among other benefits. However, as is often ...

Restart MySQL with the command sudo service mysql restart and that’s all we have to do for the Master. The Slave Now we head over to the Slave.

Semi-Synchronous Replication The most unexpected new feature in MySQL 5.5 is semi-synchronous replication. Before now, replication in MySQL has been asynchronous. The slave is configured to read from ...

Performing Checksums Most of the Maatkit tools are targeted towards monitoring replication process between master and slave MySQL server instances. So, when a database replication is in progress ...

The words master and slave have been widely used for decades in computing and other technical contexts, as a reference to situations where one process or entity controls another.