Recent Posts by Sanjay Manwani

The latest versions of MySQL Workbench starting from version 6 have the capability to integrate with MySQL Enterprise Backup (MEB). Though all the functionality of MEB is not supported, it is still a great tool to begin your backup and get your backup setup in minutes. Workbench also provides the additional capability to be able to schedule your backups. The sections below illustrate the setup and usage of the Workbench UI to be able to setup and execute backup using MEB. This...

Here are the slides for the talk given at Oracle Open world about MEB & OSB. MySQL Enterprise Backup: Introduction and Working with Oracle Secure Backup

Here are the slides for my talk at MySQL connect,  Backing up the MySQL Database.

As promised we are back with the 2nd edition of Bangalore MySQL User camp this Wednesday 19 June. As requested we are going into the details of InnoDB and Performance Schema. See the details here: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/bangalore-mysql-user-camp/gnqGPLKDB0s Venue remains the same as last time :  Our Kalyani Magnum Office behind Apollo hospital on the Bannerghatta road Time - 5PM-6PM Don't miss the chance to meet the MySQL engineering team at Bangalore...

MySQL Enterprise Backup (MEB) was born 3 years ago as a newly branded avatar of InnoDB Hot backup. Wanted to share what has gone on so far, how we at Oracle think about backup, the milestones that we have achieved and the road ahead. The idea for this blog came to me after looking at Mikael's latest blog. While Mikael talks about MySQL, I want to talk about MEB. When we started with InnoDB Hot backup the first challenge was to have it adhere to the development, quality and...

We had a great kickoff to the Bangalore MySQL User camp on 22 March 2013 at the Oracle Kalyani Magnum Office. There were 17 attendees from the MySQL community besides more than 15 MySQL engineers who attended the meet. Of these 3 community members were from groups inside Oracle. There was a mix of new and veteran MySQL users. The MySQL India teams gave a brief introduction about themselves, followed by a quick overdrewof MySQL and how it is different from other databases....

We are planning the kickoff meeting of the Bangalore MySQL User Camp: We would like to invite all MySQL enthusiasts at Bangalore to join. Plan is to have at-least one meeting every quarter and give an opportunity to all to participate, attend and speak. Agenda for 22 March Meeting: 1700-1715: Introductions 1715-1730 : Meet the MySQL Development team @ Bangalore 1730-1815 : Introduction to MySQL 5.6 1815-1830 : Q&A & Plan for the next meeting1830-1900 : Tea and informal...

How do you implement a parallel algorithm for a software which needs to be streamed to tapes? How do you ensure that you have the capability to be able to tune the level of parallelism for varying input and output devices and varying levels of load? These were some of the questions that we needed to answer when we were trying to implement multi-threading capability for MySQL Enterprise Backup (MEB). The trivial way of achieving parallelism is by having the multiplethreads...