Archive for the ‘sql’ Category

MySQL upgrade tonight

Friday, February 1st, 2013

Update: Everything went well and all services should be available.   Tonight 2-1-2012 we will be upgrading our database servers. At 11:00 pm we will upgrade our internal MySQL server. This will cause member tools to be unavailable for approximately 5 minutes. Then at 11:59 pm we will upgrade both of our ...

Database Cluster Maintenance

Thursday, December 20th, 2012

System Operations will be replacing a failed battery backup unit in one of our customer-facing database servers at 11:00pm PST on Thursday, December 20th, 2012. During this time, MySQL 5.x databases will be unavailable. The work is expected to take no more than 30 minutes.   ** Update ** The maintenance window will ...

custsql upgrade tonight

Thursday, November 15th, 2012

Tonight Nov 15, starting at 11:59 we will be performing maintenance on our customer sql server running MySQL 5.0. We will be upgrading it to MySQL 5.5. We believe the upgrade to go smoothly with minimal downtime. If you notice anything strange after the upgrade, please visit forums.sonic.net and post your issues. Thanks, William and ...

MySQL 4.1 custsql migration

Tuesday, December 6th, 2011

Tonight, Wednesday December 7th at 12:10 AM we will be migrating all databases currently on our MySQL 4.1 database server to our new MySQL 5.5 server. We are anticipating approximately 2 hours of downtime. -William and the SOC Update: All services have been migrated to the new server.

New customer MySQL 5.5 box deployed

Friday, July 29th, 2011

We have just deployed a new customer SQL server running MySQL 5.5. This new machine has 16GB of RAM and 1.3TB of raid storage and redundant BGP feed uplinks. This is  more resources then our 2 previous servers combined! We would welcome customers to take an opportunity to migrate their existing ...

MySQL5 support added.

Monday, November 10th, 2008

Our Database Member-Tool now offers you the choice between MySQL4, MySQL5 or PostgreSQL. We encourage you to try it out and even try migrating your data from your MySQL4 instance to MySQL5 as this will enable all the features and performance increases in MySQL5 as well as landing you on a ...