Charles Bell & Mats Kindahl 
MySQL High Availability 
Tools for Building Robust Data Centers

Server bottlenecks and failures are a fact of life in any database deployment, but they dont have to bring everything to a halt. This practical book explains replication, cluster, and monitoring features that can help protect your My SQL system from outages, whether its running on hardware, virtual machines, or in the cloud.Written by engineers who designed many of the tools covered, this book reveals undocumented or hard-to-find aspects of My SQL reliability and high availabilityknowledge thats essential for any organization using this database system. This second edition describes extensive changes to My SQL tools. Versions up to 5.5 are covered, along with several 5.6 features.Learn replication fundamentals, including use of the binary log and My SQL Replicant Library Handle failing components through redundancy Scale out to manage read-load increases, and use data sharding to handle large databases and write-load increases Store and replicate data on individual nodes with My SQL Cluster Monitor database activity and performance, and major operating system parameters Keep track of masters and slaves, and deal with failures and restarts, corruption, and other incidents Examine tools including My SQL Enterprise Monitor, My SQL Utilities, and GTIDs