Consulting

When it comes to MariaDB/MySQL Database consulting engagements we often see, that our customers are very confused by many different technologies advertised to them.

Below you will find some simple concepts and ideas we use during our consulting engagements to solve some issues and answer some questions.

General problem solving approach

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  . Written description of the problem to solve. This helps to learn about your problem and better understand your problem.
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  . Searching for a suitable method, technology or …

Since January 2019 FromDual tries to contribute actively a little bit against global warming too.

The best for the climate would be to NOT travel to the customer at all! For this cases we have our FromDual remote-DBA services for MariaDB and MySQL.

But sometimes customer wants or needs us on-site for our FromDual in-house trainings or our FromDual on-site consulting engagements. In these cases we try to travel by train. Travelling by train is after walking or travelling by bicycle the most climate friendly …

Helsinki, Finland, Uster, Switzerland – February 18, 2012 – Codership, the provider of Galera Cluster for MySQL, and FromDual, a MySQL consulting company, today announced collaboration to offer Galera Cluster technology and related support and consulting services for Galera users all over the world, especially in German speaking countries Germany, Austria and Switzerland (DACH). Galera Cluster is a synchronous, true multi-master replication cluster for MySQL using the well known InnoDB storage engine. …

Uster, Switzerland – April 26, 2010 – FromDual has signed the Service Provider Partnership Agreement of the Open Database Alliance (ODBA).

FromDual is the first official ODBA consulting partner in Europe. The growing number of downloads and use of MariaDB, an improved and enhanced derivation of the MySQL database, also requires consultancy services for MariaDB in Europe.

We are excited to be working with ODBA as their first consulting partner in Europe says Oliver Sennhauser, Owner of FromDual. …

Uster, Switzerland – April 26, 2010 – FromDual has signed the Service Provider Partnership Agreement of the Open Database Alliance (ODBA).

FromDual is the first official ODBA consulting partner in Europe. The growing number of downloads and use of MariaDB, an improved and enhanced derivation of the MySQL database, also requires consultancy services for MariaDB in Europe.

We are excited to be working with ODBA as their first consulting partner in Europe says Oliver Sennhauser, Owner of FromDual. …

The following tools we use sometimes for our consulting engagements…

Caution: These tools are NOT for production use! Use with care!

Tools

• allocate.c
• backslashG2table.pl
• general2bench.pl
• memuse.pl
• memwaster.c
• MySQLprofiler
• pointer_size.c
• alter_engine.pl
• commit_demo.pl
• test.sh
• vm_mon.sh
• read_process_memory.c
• read_process_memory.sh
• cluster_initial_test.pl
• mem_map.pl
• csv_converter.pl
• mem_tracker.sh
• filesystem_table.php

Sample Databases

• MySQL world: world.tgz (92 kbyte, runs with version 4.1 (tested …

Hello everybody,

One month earlier than planned we have the great pleasure to announce you that the company called FromDual goes operational today!

We are excited about this step and it is an new era in our personal evolution to get back in full-contact with customers and solve their real life day-to-day MySQL problems.

So we are happy hearing from you and to help you solving your individual MySQL problems…

You can find us at FromDual or you can contact us here.

Regards,
Oli Sennhauser (aka Shinguz) …

FromDual delivers neutral and vendor independent on-site consulting services on MariaDB, MySQL, Galera Cluster and Percona Server. Our experienced consultants recommend you the best solutions fitting to your needs.

We help you in delicate matters as:

• Getting the maximum out of your current hardware through Performance Tuning and SQL Query Tuning by adding indexes where necessary.
• Evaluating more advanced Database Architectures like Master/Slave Replication or synchronous multi-Master Replication with …

Neutral and vendor independent
MariaDB, Galera Cluster, MySQL and Percona Server
Consulting and Services!

MariaDB/MySQL Consulting

You get neutral and vendor independent on-site Consulting for MariaDB, MySQL, Galera Cluster and Percona Server without the need of a support contract or a subscription. Our consultants recommend you the best solutions fitting to your needs.

Learn more about our MariaDB/MySQL Consulting…

Training for MySQL and MariaDB

When you need a Training for MariaDB or MySQL, we …

We have added some more tools to our MySQL consulting tools collection.