Buddy of mine asked me a question over chat today: “how do I show my machines’ IP at login prompt with out logging in?” He is referring to his Virtual Machine in this case. He does not want to have to log in to the server to see what ip it has (since [...]

Welcome to Tip #1 in MySQL Replication Series. In this tip we will go over what to do when you only want to replicate certain data to slave(s). Most general way to tell what is replicated to which slave is to include following configuration directive in my.cnf file depending on your environment and [...]

Setting up replication is not hard and can be done by following simple directions. You can learn setting up two type of replication MySQL offers here: master-master replication and master-slave replication. Once you have replication set up, you can start playing with it without doing any more changes to the configuration. But let us [...]