Category: RDS for MySQL

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale MySQL and MariaDB deployments in the cloud. Developers are often required to run complex queries in MySQL and MariaDB environments to create a dashboard or run simple ad hoc reports. Furthermore, application developers use complex stored procedures with user-created temporary […]

Selecting the right cloud management tool is extremely important for many enterprises. In the post 5 Tips for Keeping Pace with AWS’s Innovation, we briefly discussed the high-level strategies to overcome the challenges of continuous improvement and drive innovations in your organization. In this post, we show how infrastructure as code (IaC) solutions built with […]

Linked servers allow Microsoft SQL Server to run SQL Server statements on other instances of database servers. They are a good solution when you need to implement database sharding without needing to create custom application code or directly load from remote data sources. In this post, we focus on creating linked server access to Amazon […]

Our customers have seen many cases where network bandwidth between the MySQL client and database becomes the source of bottleneck. This leads to increase in the query latencies causing performance impact. This is especially seen for workloads which have high network bandwidth requirement. MySQL and MariaDB solve this problem by allowing you to compress traffic […]

Exporting data or restoring to an earlier point in time are core capabilities that customers look for in a software as a service (SaaS) product. Database backup and recovery is vital to business continuity and regulatory compliance. You should understand how your multi-tenant data partitioning model will affect the backup and restore capabilities of your […]

At AWS, cloud security is the highest priority. The implementation of security and compliance is a shared responsibility. While AWS is responsible for the security of the cloud, it provides multiple features to help you manage the security of your databases in the cloud. For example, you can integrate services like AWS Identity and Access […]

At times you may need to migrate your workloads from one AWS Region to another Region. In this post, we highlight best practices for cross-Region migration of Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) and Amazon Aurora . We provide prescriptive guidance on migration of various components related to the RDS databases. We also discuss the […]

XA transactions are not a very familiar concept to lots of people and therefore hardly used. An XA transaction is a two-phase commit protocol that supports distributed transactions that updates multiple relational databases. It involves a transaction manager that monitors this global transaction. XA makes sure that transactional updates are committed in all of the […]

In this post, we focus on database object validation for the heterogenous migration from SAP ASE to Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MySQL, Amazon RDS for MariaDB, or Amazon Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition. For schema conversion and migration, you can use AWS Schema Conversion Tool (AWS SCT). AWS SCT helps convert your database schema […]

Database object validation plays a key role in the database migration process. It’s the process of determining whether all the source database objects have been successfully migrated to the target database by comparing their types and counts. If you skip the validation phase, you may encounter runtime errors due to missing database objects, which can […]