Diamond Notes

Two good resources for DBA’s are the MySQL forge and the MySQL worklog.  The forge is the place for user contributed code, snippets, and documentation.  It is at http://forge.mysql.com.   Another, less known, resource is the worklog.  The worklog has a link at the forge or you can go directly there at http://forge.mysql.com/worklog/.

It shows what upcoming features are being worked on and in what version the features are planned for release.  For example, WL#2387, is an entry entitled “Replication Master Filtering”.  When this filter is enabled it will allow you to implement filtering on the master server instead of the slave.  This will cut down on unnecessary network traffic.  Currently, you can filter on the slave, say only database X, but the data still gets sent across the network.  There is no version set for potential release of this feature.

I wasn’t aware of the worklog until the last couple of days.  Someone mentioned it in a blog posting and I looked it up for myself.  I am afraid I can’t figure out who it was that did the original posting, but if they want to contact me or post a comment..I will be happy to update this.