RE: Configuration for redundancy?

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On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 15:58 -0700, Goehring, Chuck, RCI - San Diego
wrote:
> 
> The MySQL folks say they do clustering.

It's a bit different from just clustering an existing MySQL database.
It involves using an entirely separate table type which is designed just
for clustering.  Suitable for some applications, but most of what people
think of as database clustering would be easier to do using replication
(which MySQL supports) and some kind of external failover.  Zawodny's
MySQL book covers the subject well.

- Perrin