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Setting Up and Deploying PostgreSQL for High Availability

Percona

HA in PostgreSQL databases delivers virtually continuous availability, fault tolerance, and disaster recovery. In general terms, to achieve HA in PostgreSQL, there must be: Redundancy: To ensure data redundancy and provide continuous performance when a primary server fails, multiple copies of the database reside in replica servers.

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An Introduction to MySQL Replication: Exploring Different Types of MySQL Replication Solutions

Percona

In this blog post, I provide an in-depth introduction to MySQL Replication, answering what it is, how it works , its benefits and challenges, as well as reviewing some of the MySQL replication concepts that are part of the MySQL environment (and Percona Server for MySQL specifically). Set the server-id to a unique value.

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What Adrian Did Next?—?Part 2?—?Sun Microsystems

Adrian Cockcroft

The early days at Sun Cambridge were special, I absorbed a lot about networking and the technical side of the role from my fellow systems engineer Martin Baines, and we were driving all over the region in cool company cars (I had a Citroen BX 16V) selling a really hot product.

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MongoDB Best Practices: Security, Data Modeling, & Schema Design

Percona

Operating System (OS) settings Swappiness Swappiness is a Linux kernel setting that influences the behavior of the Virtual Memory manager when it needs to allocate a swap, ranging from 0-100. 20-30% is a good general default for “dirty_ratio,” but on large-memory database servers, this can be a lot of memory.

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SQL Server I/O Basics Chapter #2

SQL Server According to Bob

This White Paper is for informational purposes only. Copyright The information ​​ that is contained ​​ in this document represents the current view of Microsoft Corporation on the issues discussed as of the date of publication.

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SQL Server I/O Basics Chapter #1

SQL Server According to Bob

Microsoft SQL Server I/O Basics Author: ​​ Bob Dorr, Microsoft SQL Server Escalation Published: ​​ December, 2004 SUMMARY: ​​ Learn the I/O requirements for Microsoft SQL Server database file operations. This White Paper is for informational purposes only.

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