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I am trying to set up replication with slave on Amazon EC2 and master in our local environment. The setup went fine without SSL encryption. But when I set up the replication to be SSL encrypted, it is ...
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I have this idea of making my database's Admin account secured by creating the following: Trigger is activated every hour in mysql this trigger activates a stored procedure Stored procedure ...
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MySQL: How does AES_ENCRYPT turn the password into a key?

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How do you encrypt data while performing a mysqldump?

My OS is windows 7. How can I encrypt data while performing a mysqldump? From the command prompt, can I take a mysqldump with encrypted varchar and texts values? Please help me. Thanks