Mysql 5.6

Databases MySQL

Cloning MySQL 5.6 instances

Ronald Bradford
August 23, 2013

A tip for all those cloud users that like cloning database servers (as reported in my book Effective MySQL – Replication Techniques in Depth ). Starting with MySQL 5.6, MySQL instances have a UUID .

Databases MySQL

Improved Security with MySQL 5.6

Ronald Bradford
August 1, 2013

Installed on a clean CentOS 6.4 AWS instance. sudo su - cd /tmp wget http://cdn.mysql.com/Downloads/MySQL-5.6/MySQL-5.6.13-1.el6.x86_64.rpm-bundle.tar tar xvf MySQL-5.6.13-1.el6.x86_64.rpm-bundle.tar yum install -y libaio perl rpm -i MySQL*.rpm The following output is the sign that security is being considered with new MySQL versions.