https://ronaldbradford.com/tags/disaster/ Recent content in Disaster on Enterprise Data Architect | Principal Data Strategist | MySQL Subject Matter Expert | Author | Speaker Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Sun, 04 Sep 2022 20:38:37 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/spoiler-owning-your-data-isnt-good-enough-2022-09-04/ Sun, 04 Sep 2022 20:38:37 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/spoiler-owning-your-data-isnt-good-enough-2022-09-04/ While this is a catchy title, if you use Software as a Service (SaaS), or an online cloud provider, do you actually own and have total control of your business data and its infrastructure? https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/basic-scalability-principles-to-avert-downtime-2011-04-23/ Sat, 23 Apr 2011 18:39:56 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/basic-scalability-principles-to-avert-downtime-2011-04-23/ In the press in the last two days has been the reported outage of Amazon Web Services Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) in just one North Virginia data center. This has affected many large website includes FourSquare , Hootsuite , Reddit and Quora . https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/checked-your-mysql-recovery-process-recently-2010-02-15/ Mon, 15 Feb 2010 21:34:37 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/checked-your-mysql-recovery-process-recently-2010-02-15/ I sound like a broken record with every client when I talk to about the resilience of their production environments. It’s very simple in theory, however in practice many organizations fail. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/calculating-your-database-size-2009-09-25/ Fri, 25 Sep 2009 05:06:15 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/calculating-your-database-size-2009-09-25/ I generally use the following MySQL INFORMATION_SCHEMA (I_S) query to Calculate Your MySQL Database Size . This query and most others that access the MySQL INFORMATION_SCHEMA can be very slow to execute because they are not real tables and are not governed by physical data, memory buffers and indexes for example but rather internal MySQL data structures. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/never-let-your-binlog-directory-fill-up-2009-07-15/ Wed, 15 Jul 2009 18:51:08 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/never-let-your-binlog-directory-fill-up-2009-07-15/ Recently with a client while running a number of disaster recovery tests I came across a nasty situation which was not part of the original plan and provided a far worse disaster situation then expected.