Does Python MySQLdb Make You Wait?

Recently while writing a data loading application for a customer, we’ve come into a problematic situation with the Python MySQLdb module that can be installed with base RHEL repository or DVD. As a little background, this application uses an HA architecture where a Virtual IP can be assigned to different servers during a failover scenario. …

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Sandboxed MySQL Utilities – HowTo

Often I would need to work on customer servers where MySQL Utilities would be a really good fit for the tools I need. However, I would not want to mess around with the customer servers just to have it running so I would have the tools built and sandboxed on its own directory where I …

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XtraBackup Complains of Missing perl-DBD-MySQL

I was busy testing a PXC cluster today when suddenly was buffled with a confusing error: 140108 23:33:39 innobackupex: Connecting to MySQL server with DSN 'dbi:mysql:;mysql_read_default_group=xtrabackup' (using password: NO). innobackupex: Error: Failed to connect to MySQL server as DBD::mysql module is not installed at /usr/bin/innobackupex line 2913. OK, so my first though was DBD::mysql is …

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