I would like to know that whether mysqlbinlog –read-from-remote-server can be used to replicate data to a slave mysql server using script. If yes is it successfull. Although there will be a delay, depending on the cron executing the script.

I have a situation, where i need to get data from different mysql server on server called report server. Actually, i am working on this.

Please give your comments.

Thanks,
Krishna Chandra Prajapati

Thanks, I appreciate it.
Not really, although I would recommend you to set lower_case_table_names=1 (on both machines, unless you have table1 and Table1). This will store all tables as lowercase, and will also convert it for you (So SELECT a,b FROM C; will be SELECT a,b FROM c;)

However, you’d have to convert all your tables to lowercase on linux first.

Another option might be to set it to 0 on linux and 2 on windows, but there’s some drawbacks to that as well.

For a more descriptive walk through, please visit: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/identifier-case-sensitivity.html
which has use cases as well.

@Shantanu:
Yes, you are right that unix knowledge does help — unless you’re a windows DBA I guess. (But even then, having some unix knowledge would be beneficial). Thanks for commenting!

I have set a crontab that will check the bin-logs every hour for entries related to a particular table and update it on some other server. I use this method when I want to update only one table and don’t need replication.

set global sql_slave_skip_counter = 1
is the line I need to run if I want to skip one line on slave.

And yes, Unix knowledge does help :)

Nick.