One of the tasks nearly any sysadmin frequently encounters is the care and feeding of the MySQL database server. You can build an entire career around nothing but this topic—making you a DB ...

They have their own server with a SQL Server database holding the data for the live site. So as not to interfere with their live data during development, we have a backup of their data installed ...

If you manage a database server, you are probably always in search of a tool to make that process a bit easier. If your database of choice is MySQL, you have a number of options.