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A backup you never restored is not really a backup, it is a hope. This is how DB Trail checks the whole recovery chain (capture, storage and reconstruction), and how you can…
Two ways to keep database history: inline system versioning, or an external change-data-capture index on a separate machine. This is not a speed contest. It is…
DB Trail now has a web console. That is the short version 🙂 For as long as dbtrail has existed, you drove it from the command line:…
Back in 2020 I wrote about rate limiting writes to MySQL with ProxySQL. The main idea is still valid, but two things changed enough to write…
A reader asked four operations-grade questions about Time Travel SQL. Here is how bintrail handles multi-TB tables, retention, monitoring, and partitioning - and how it differs…
A time ago I argued MySQL is the only major OLTP database without time-travel queries. Here’s what’s changed. Last month I mapped out how every major…
One of the 3 promise that a database do is: I will Survive. Traditionally it was physical: disk, memory, replication, OOM. The hardware side. With agents,…
You’re still running agents against MySQL. So am I. Last time we walked through what happens when an agent doesn’t understand the query it’s running. This…
You’re running agents against MySQL. So am I. It’s where we are. Sooner or later you’re going to be recovering data because of something one of…
The series: A few time ago I wrote that a database does three things: It executes queries. It manages relationships. It survives the physical machine it…
