Oracle has announced a new strategy for the further development of MySQL. Under new leadership, numerous features from the Enterprise Edition are to be incorporated into the free Community Edition.

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Replication is one of the most popular features used in RDBMS’s today. Replication is used for disaster recovery purposes (i.e. backup or warm stand-by servers), reporting systems where query activity ...