by Ivan Groenewold | May 5, 2020 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB
On a recent project, we were tasked with loading several billion records into MongoDB. That prompted us to dig a bit deeper into WiredTiger knobs & turns, which turned out to be a very interesting experience.What we noticed is the load started at a decent rate,... by Ivan Groenewold | Apr 28, 2020 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB
If you have been working in the database field for some time, you have likely come across the need to create a new database, based on an existing one. The most common example I can think of is to create a copy of the production database for testing purposes.In the... by Ivan Groenewold | Jan 2, 2020 | MySQL, ProxySQL
ProxySQL and Orchestrator are usually installed to achieve high availability when using MySQL replication. On a failover (or graceful takeover) scenario, Orchestrator will promote a slave, and ProxySQL will redirect the traffic. Depending on how your environment is...
