MySQL is a database management system. A database is a collection of data. It can be anything from a simple grocery list to a picture gallery or the vast amounts of information in a corporate network. Its development process focuses on offering a very efficient implementation of the features most people need. This means that MySQL still has fewer features than its chief open-source competitor, PostgreSQL, or the commercial database engines.
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The steps to migrate MySQL database to Google Cloud SQL are:
- Create a file from MySQL server for that login into MySQL server, and go to MySQL dump and then export the database to file with following instructions mysqldump — databases database_name-h localhost -u blog admin -p — hex-blob — skip-triggers — single-transaction — default-character-set=utf8mb4 >database_name.sql
- Now create a cloud storage bucket for that open cloud shell using the following command gsutil MB gs://[bucket-name] Note:bucket-name refers to a Unique Name we have to give.
- Now copy this file in GCP Bucket For that use following command gsutil cp ~/database_name.sql gs://[bucket-name]
- Now In GCP Console, navigate to SQL, click to Create an instance, then click on MySQL and Rename it. Generate the password and click on Create button.
- From the GCP bucket Import, the database into Cloud SQL for SQL Server Following are the steps for importing the database into Cloud SQL:
- Go to Cloud SQL From the GCP console.
- Click on the SQL instance name, then click on the Database tab.
- Create Database.
- Enter the database name, then click on Create.
- Navigate to the overview tab and click on Import.
- In the source field, browse the SQL file from the cloud storage bucket created already.
- Select the format of the file as SQL.
- In the destination field, select the database name which you created just now.
- Click on Import to start the process.
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