Changing MySQL Binary Log Files Location to Another Directory

What is the Default?
Usually in most installations, binary log files are located in the MySQL default directory (/var/lib/mysql) just next to the data files.

Why Should I Move the Binary Logs to Another Directory?
Each data modification (INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE...) and data definition (ALTER, ADD, DROP...) statement that you perform in your server are recorded in the Log files.
Therefore, each time you make any of these statements, you actually update both your data files and your log files. The result is high IO utilization that is focused on a specific disk area.
A common recommendation in the database field is to separate these files to two different disks in order to get a better performance.

How to Perform it?

1. Change the log-bin variable in the my.cnf to log-bin=/path/to/new/directory/mysql-bin
2. Purge as many files as you can (PURGE BINLOG...) in order to minimize the number of moved files (see stop 4).
3. Stop the master (service mysql stop).
4. Move the files to the new directory: mv /var/lib/mysql/mysql-bin.* /path/to/new/directory
5. Start the master again (service mysql start).

Bottom Line
Few steps and your server is ready for more traffic and data.

Keep Performing,
Moshe Kaplan

MongoDB and Java

You can find below some hints for initial Java and MongoDB integration

Take a Look at the Requirements

1. MongoDB
2. MongoDB-Java-Driver
3. JDK. If you want use JDK 1.6 or newer, you will get an error like this one: "DBObject cannot be resolved to a type"

Installing Java

yum -y install java-1.7.0-openjdk

yum -y install java-1.7.0-openjdk-devel

Getting MongoDB driver

Compiling Java

javac -d . *.java

java -cp . com/example/mbeans/Main

Define MongoDB Headers in the Code

import com.mongodb.MongoClient;

import com.mongodb.MongoException;

import com.mongodb.WriteConcern;

import com.mongodb.DB;

import com.mongodb.DBCollection;

import com.mongodb.BasicDBObject;

import com.mongodb.DBObject;

import com.mongodb.DBCursor;

import com.mongodb.ServerAddress;

import com.mongodb.*;

Connect to MongoDB

DB _db;

public void init() {

try {

System.out.println("Connecting to mongo...");

MongoClient mongoClient = new MongoClient("127.0.0.1" , 27017);

_db = mongoClient.getDB("display");

System.out.println("Connected to mongo...");

} catch (Exception e) {

System.out.println("Failed Connecting Mongo...");

}

Query the Database (Get the Number of Connections)

CommandResult stats = _db.command("serverStatus");

return Integer.valueOf((((DBObject)(stats.get("connections"))).get("current")).toString());

Bottom Line

Java and MongoDB integration is not too difficult, you just need to do the right thinks right...

Keep Performing,

Moshe Kaplan

DZone's Definitive Guide to Cloud Providers is here!

I was a part of the team that was contributing to the DZone's  Definitive Guide to Cloud Providers, and it's finally here!
If you consider what cloud solution is best for you, take a look at this guide.

Keep Performing,
Moshe Kaplan