In this article, I am going to explain how we can deploy the MySQL InnoDB cluster. InnoDB Cluster is a high availability solution provided by MySQL that has single and multi-master capabilities and failover detection.
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Linux
How to connect to a remote MySQL server using SSL on Ubuntu
April 28, 2020In this article, the steps to connect to remote MySQL databases using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) will be shown. MySQL is one of the most popular relational database management systems and by default, is configured to accept only connections from the machine where MySQL is installed. To connect to the MySQL database which sits on another machine, the additional configuration must be set to accept the remote connection with secure SSL encryption.
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SQL Server Linux installation for Amazon EC2 instance with Red Hat OS
January 9, 2020This article installs SQL Server on Linux on the Amazon EC2 instance with Red Hat OS prepared in the earlier article.
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Installation of SQL Server Linux on Red Hat in Amazon EC2 instances
December 17, 2019This article explores the configuration of the Red hat Amazon EC2 instance for SQL Server installation.
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Using SSH keys to connect to a remote MySQL Server
November 28, 2019In this article, it will be described how to connect to remote MySQL Server on Linux OS using SSH key pairs. Windows OS will be used as a host from which will be established a connection using PuTTY as a client. Besides using PuTTY as a client for establishing the connection to remote machines, it will be used to generate and use secure shell – SSH keys as well.
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How to Connect to a Remote MySQL Server Using SSH
October 18, 2019This article will explain how to set up a connection from a Windows host OS using a PuTTY client to a remote MySQL server on Linux Ubuntu 18.04.
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SQL Server Transactional Replication on Linux
September 12, 2019In this article, we will talk about how to send the SQL Server Transactional Replication on Linux Environment.
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Creating your own SQL Server docker image
September 9, 2019In this article, we will review how to create custom SQL Server docker images and run the containers from the custom images, upload the custom images to the docker hub.
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SQL Server Merge Replication on Linux
August 15, 2019Replication is a process to manage multiple copies of the same data at a different node. Microsoft SQL Server supports Merge Replication, Transaction Replication, Peer to Peer Replication and Snapshot Replication.
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Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) – Managing SQL Server database files
June 18, 2019In this article, we will review on managing database files of SQL Server running on Azure Kubernetes service.
SQL Server in Kubernetes Cluster using KOPS
May 24, 2019In this article, we will review how to create a Kubernetes cluster in AWS using KOPS, provision Elastic Block Store (EBS) as persistent volume to store the database files and deploy SQL Server in the K8s cluster.
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SQL Server in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
May 22, 2019In this article, we will review how to create a Kubernetes cluster in Azure Kubernetes Service, provision the persistent volume to store the database files and deploy SQL server on Kubernetes cluster.
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Change default database file and backup paths in SQL Server on Linux
January 10, 2019In a previous article, we explored the process to change default SQL dump file location in SQL Server. In this article, we will view the process to change the default database files and backup locations in SQL Server on Linux.
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Uninstalling SQL Server on Ubuntu
December 31, 2018We learned to install SQL Server 2019 installation on Ubuntu without a Docker Container in one of my previous articles, but we might also get a request to uninstall SQL Server running on Ubuntu as well. Both the installation and the uninstallation of SQL Server is different in Linux than of Windows OS. In windows, we can remove or uninstall any program using the add or remove programs feature. In Ubuntu, We need to run the commands in order to uninstall the programs. However, before performing uninstallation, we need to take care of the below point.
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Monitoring Disk Space on Linux – Helpful Commands for SQL Server DBAs
December 25, 2018In this article, we will explore the different Linux commands related to the disk space.
- ‘ls’ command
- ‘df’ command
- ‘du’ command
Changing SQL Dump file locations in SQL Server on Linux
December 24, 2018In this article, we will talk about SQL Dump files and the process to change the dump directory in Linux SQL Server.
Renaming a SQL Server instance on Ubuntu Linux
December 20, 2018In my previous articles, we installed the SQL Server 2019 CTP 2.1 on Ubuntu Linux. You can follow the below articles to prepare the SQL instance on Linux.
Helpful Linux commands for SQL Server DBAs – iotop and iostat
December 13, 2018In the article, we will learn how to use the ‘iotop’ and ‘iostat’ commands with various configuration options.
Renaming Logical and Physical file names in SQL Server on Linux
December 12, 2018Each database in SQL Server contains at least two files i.e. Data file (*.mdf) and log file (*.ldf). These database files have a logical name and the physical file name. Below we can view the simple architecture of a database in SQL Server.
Helpful Linux commands for SQL Server DBAs – top
December 11, 2018SQL Server 2017 and SQL Server 2019 supports both the Linux operating system. As part of performance troubleshooting or monitoring resources in Windows system, we need to check certain things like disk space, CPU or Memory consumption, check running processes, uptime etc. We can get the information, on a windows based SQL server, from the task manager.
SQL Server 2019 installation on Ubuntu without a Docker Container
December 10, 2018Until now, we learned to install and configure SQL Server 2019 using the Docker container. In this article, we will directly install SQL Server on the Ubuntu Linux and explore more on this.
SQL Server 2019 on Linux with Ubuntu
November 29, 2018In my previous articles, we installed SQL Server 2019 on the windows environment (vs Linux / Ubuntu). We also explored some of the important enhancements in SQL Server 2019
SQL Server 2019 on Linux with a Docker container on Ubuntu
November 29, 2018In the first article of the series on SQL Server 2019 and Ubuntu, we prepared the virtual machine environment and installed Ubuntu 18.10 in it. In this part of the article, we will install the latest SQL Server 2019 Preview CTP 2.1.
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SQL Server 2019 on Linux with Ubuntu and Azure Data Studio
November 29, 2018In the previous articles of this series on using SQL Server 2019 on Ubuntu, we have explored the following
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How to setup cross-platform transactional SQL Server replication for database reporting on Linux
August 31, 2018In most cases, an organization can either use the existing out-of-the-box database replication features offered by their database software provider or invest in custom solutions to execute and manage database replication processes. The latter option sometimes allows greater flexibility to create data replicas across multiple types on multiple platforms.
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