Tips for Storing Your Percona Backups in the Cloud
Percona has made a lot of great contributions in the open source world. One of the most downloaded software is their backup software for MySQL and for MongoDB. These softwares play a vital role for...
View ArticleUnderstanding the Value of Database Automation in E-Learning
E-learning management systems, such as Moodle, proved to be very valuable during the COVID-19 pandemic. Such systems are developed on pedagogical principles allowing educators and trainers to achieve...
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Boosting Performance by Using Read Write Splitting of Database Traffic with...
Moodle is a very well known Learning Management System which is intended to help educational organizations organize their online learning activities. As you can imagine, given the online shift in 2020...
View ArticleUnderstanding Character Sets and Collations in MySQL
If you have ever worked with MySQL, you inevitably came across character sets and collations. In this blog post, we will try to give you a more in-depth look at what those two are and how you should...
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Which Moodle Database Should You Use?
The open source, eLearning LMS Moodle has recently been getting a lot of attention due to the COVID-19 Pandemic. The strain on the resources as educators move their students to eLearning platforms has...
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How to Migrate Standalone Moodle to a Clustered Database Scalable Setup
Online Learning nowadays is quickly gaining traction since the COVID-19 pandemic happened. Most of the educational institutions are having to set up platforms for online learning, and pretty much all...
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How to Deploy the Open edX MySQL Database for High Availability
Open edX is a platform for online educational activities. Given the situation the world is in, all such platforms are encountering higher loads and their importance has significantly increased. Those...
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The Director of Marketing at Severalnines will be expected to craft and execute strategies that drive traffic of high-quality leads to our website to contribute to the growth of our community user and...
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Tips for Monitoring MySQL for Moodle
Database monitoring is a critical part of any application’s maintenance. Finding database issues on time can help the application remain healthy and accessible. Without monitoring in place, database...
View ArticleHow to Audit a PostgreSQL Database
Auditing is a good way to keep your data as safe as possible, and to know what is happening in your databases. It is also required for many security regulations or standards, like PCI - Payment Card...
View ArticleWorking With MyISAM in MySQL
MyISAM is one of the most popular storage engines in MySQL. MyISAM frequently is the second choice after InnoDB - in this blog post we will try to find out how best to work with this engine.What is...
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Challenges of Scaling the Moodle PostgreSQL Database
Moodle is the most popular Learning Management System (LMS) allowing educators to create their own website with courses or content that extend learning. These kinds of platforms are getting more and...
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How to Backup Your Moodle MySQL Database
Data is an essential part of running a Moodle environment. Should the IT operations team lose data accidentally, then it could lead to a huge loss. So, to protect valuable information, sysadmins need...
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How to Setup Automatic Failover for the Moodle MySQL Database
In a previous blog, we had discussed how to migrate a standalone Moodle setup to scalable setup based on a clustered database. The next step you will need to think about is the failover mechanism -...
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How to Benchmark Performance of Moodle
Moodle, the world's most popular learning management system (LMS), is commonly being deployed in a rapidly growing and large scale environment. Fortunately, Moodle is built with availability and...
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How to Automatically Manage Failover of the MySQL Database for Moodle
In our previous blogs, we made justification for why you need a database failover and have explained how a failover mechanism works. I’m sharing this in case you have questions on why you should set up...
View ArticleTransaction Considerations for MongoDB in Production
A MongoDB transaction is a group of throughput operations (reads and writes ) that require all these operations to succeed or fail together. For instance consider transferring money from account A to...
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How to Deploy the Chamilo MariaDB Database for High Availability
Learning Management System (LMS) platforms allow you to learn/teach remotely, something that is really important due to the current situation around the world.That being said, we can also say High...
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How to Deploy the Chamilo MySQL Database for High Availability
Chamilo is, just like Open edX or Moodle, a platform that allows educational institutions to transfer their educational activities to the internet. Given that the majority of the educational activity...
View ArticleWorking with the Moodle Database: The Basics
Wednesday, January 27, 2021 - 08:00 to 08:30Managing the database behind Moodle is key to improving performance and achieving uptime for your users. In this training video we will talk about the Moodle...
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