On Mon, Dec 30, 2002 at 12:15:49PM -0500, Rick Faircloth wrote: > Hi, Jeremy. > > What if one is the master and one is a slave, but both are used in > production environments?
That's safe. It avoids the problem. > Is it possible for a slave to be used as a live production database > or is it simply for backup? You can use it as a live read-only server, yes. > If they can both be used as live production databases, how can they > be synced with replication? The difference is that the master is read/write while the slave(s) are read-only. Jeremy -- Jeremy D. Zawodny | Perl, Web, MySQL, Linux Magazine, Yahoo! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | http://jeremy.zawodny.com/ MySQL 3.23.51: up 15 days, processed 556,001,505 queries (410/sec. avg) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php