Do you need MySQL High-Availability? How to determine which MySQL High-Availability solution is best?

"mysql-proxy" defaults to round-robin load balancing. There are fancy tricks around to get "mysql-proxy" to balance connections based on how many idle connections there are in a proxy-based connection pool. But there is no code that I found that would simply load balance based on "always go to one server, go to another server only when the first server is down."Well, I spent way t

Introduction to guaranteed data availability with Continuent Tungsten for MySQL. How to keep data available with automatic seamless failover, automatic slave promotion, avoid data loss, increase database performance and lower cost of data integration. Presented by Robert Hodges, CTO at Continuent.