Tag Archive For "RDS"
RDS Migration from 5.5 to 5.6 with mysqldump
Amazon recently announced support for 5.6, unfortunately, direct upgrade from lower versions is not yet supported. On a recent migration work – running mysqldump flat out would’ve meant 6+hrs of downtime. How did we cut it off to 1h45m? Simple, run dump per table and pipe it directly to the new 5.6 instance in parallel …
Default RDS Account Privileges
I was searching looking for the PRIVILEGES that comes with the primary MySQL account on RDS, but it looks like this is not documented anywhere nor blogged about yet. So for the sake of other users, here it is: GRANT SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, CREATE, DROP, RELOAD, PROCESS, REFERENCES, INDEX, ALTER, SHOW DATABASES, CREATE TEMPORARY …