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Identifying Useful Info from MySQL Row-Based Binary Logs
As a MySQL DBA/consultant, it is part of my job to decode the MySQL binary logs – and there are a number of reasons for doing that. In this post, I’ll explain how you can get the important information...
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Using dbsake to recover table structure from .frm files and process mysqldump...
We work on data recoveries quite often. In many cases, we recover table structures from the .frm files because there was no backup available. There is already a great blog post by my colleague Miguel...
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Migrating MySQL Users to Amazon RDS
In this blog post, we’ll look at what is needed when migrating MySQL users to Amazon RDS. We’ll discuss how we can transform MySQL user grants and make them compatible with Amazon RDS. In order to...
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Amazon RDS Multi-AZ Deployments and Read Replicas
Amazon RDS is a managed relational database service that makes it easier to set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud. One of the common questions that we get is “What is Multi-AZ...
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Amazon RDS MySQL Minor Upgrades: Not So Fast!
The promise of DBaaS like RDS is to reduce operational overhead (among other things) and one of the stellar cases is upgrades (major and minor). The suggested procedure involves just a couple of steps....
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