drupal links

http://drupal.org/node/810690

http://drupal.org/node/181128

http://codebaboon.com/method-syncronising-database-changes

I stumbled across a neat little tool called Toad for MySQL, a freeware application brought to you by the same guys that produce Toad for Oracle, an industry standard in Oracle database administration.
http://www.toadsoft.com/toadmysql/Overview.htm

http://www.johnandcailin.com/blog/john/scaling-drupal-step-four-database-segmentation-using-mysql-proxy

http://www.slideshare.net/KrisBuytaert/drupal-mysql-cluster