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February QCLUG Meeting

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date: 2/7/2017
topic: mysql galera with pacemaker
notes: >
  opening comments:
    - the meeting opened 8.5 minutes late due to unknown reasons
    - we then decided to introduce ourselves (even though there we no new attendees...)
    - during introductions we decided to come up with new meeting topics
    - here are the meeting topic ideas
  ideas:
    travis: php
    chad: irc
    dan: phpmyadmin
    sunil: target a single school (augustana or kaplan)
    christian: gluster
    aaron: drbd (actually this was suggested by travis)
    tom: qclug business cards (aaron want's stickers)
    brad: no ideas for brad...
    nelson: ansible
  officer position changes:
    - pr officer was renamed to marketing director
    - mascot position was added
  website maintenance:
    - laptop sign-up sheet was removed from the meeting format
  side converstation:
    - tom was reminiscing of when there were internet yellow pages types books
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  topic presentation:
    - the actual galera presentation began at exactly 7:19PM (central)
    - the first slide (after title slide) started at 7:24PM
    - per tom's outrageous outburst we learned that mysql was forked to mariadb by facebook (is this true?)
    - according to travis a database is the same thing as referenced excel spreadsheets
    - travis proceeded to show a video( that actually was just an audio recording displaying a pixelated desktop) of a sql server interview..
    - the recorded interview was hilarious
    - galera supports synchronous replication, which means it has to commit writes to all replicas before the write is considered complete
    - this type of replication however is not designed to work well with databases that do large volume small entry database writes
    - travis says in general the way galera works is like voodoo
    - at approximately 7:36 sunil's phone rang interupting the entire meeting and disrupting everthing
    - tom suggested databases that implement 'sharding' might be better suited as a high available solution for certain types of databases
    - alex began making fun of tom's use of the word sharding not knowing that he actually misunderstood tom as he did not say the word 'sharting' (notice the t in the word) which would have been much funnier but also quite awkward considering the conversation context had nothing to do with accidental bowel movement.
    - at this point christian noticed that the mysql logo is of a dolphin and that the mariadb logo is of a seal
    - but then alex corrected everyone and explained that the mariadb logo is actually a 'sea lion' not a seal, which if you google 'sea lion vs seal' you will realize that alex is correct.
    - galera is compatible with both mariadb and mysql, but you get newer packages from mariadb
    - alex started his live demo at exactly 7:49
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