A few years ago, I used MySQL Sandbox to filter binary logs. While that one was a
theoretical case, recently I came across a very practical case
where we needed to provision an Oracle database, which is the
designated slave of a MySQL master.
In this particular case, we needed to provision the Oracle slave
with some auditing features in place. Therefore, mass load
functions were not considered. What we needed was the contents of
the MySQL database as binary rows i.e. the same format used for
row-based replication.
To achieve the purpose as quickly and as painlessly as we could,
I thought to employ the services of a MySQL Sandbox. The flow of
information would be like this:
- Install a sandbox, using the same version and character set
of the master;
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