Tag: aurora

Doing online schema changes in a managed database environment is not as straight-forward as one may think. Using gh-ost with Amazon RDS / Aurora can help you overcome commonly found issues with DDL changes, including: Long transactions Slave lag Temporary tables…

High availability for MySQL has become increasingly relevant given the ever increasing rate of adoption and implementation. It’s no secret to anyone in the community that the popularity of MySQL has become noteworthy. I still remember my start with MySQL…

Kevin Markwardt, MySQL Database Consultant at Pythian, explains how to set up an external slave for a live Amazon AWS Aurora instance.