Hi to all, Firstly, I'm new here and not sure of the correct place to ask for this type of assistance but i'm hoping someone can help. I have been using MySQL enterprise in a company production environment for many years. We run 5 databases in a daisy chained replication system on five servers in five cities across Australia. This has worked flawlessly since 2007 when we setup MySQL version 3.0.34. It worked flawlessly before then too but back then we were still learning how much MySQL could do. Our first full production version was 5.0.34. We have had enterprise licenses from MySQL for the five servers ever since we started with mySQL in 2003. When MySQL was aquired by Sun the level of service provided remained extremely high with the only real change being that our account manager changed from being Iko in Europe to Ralph in Australia. (I still have the greatest respect for both Iko and Ralph. I wish I could say the same for Oracle.) The average time for a resolution of help issues submitted was less than one hour, the best was 11 minutes from submission to resolution, I was extemely happy with this but since MySQL has been taken over by Oracle I have not been able to get system suport at all. I mean -- never... not once.... Even after spending many hours trying to follow the instructions to get help from the Oracle help system and after paying many thousands of dollars to buy the suport still nothing from MySQL/Oracle suport. They are the most arrogant and rude organisiation I've ever had to deal with. I have began to look at moving to Maria DB as an alternative, especially since the MariaDB project is made up of many of the original MySQL people. In recent weeks we have upgraded much of our company's infrastructure and now have new servers running win server 2008 64 bit OS but three of our DB servers are still running the old win 32 bit 2003 server OS. The older servers are still running MySQL 5.0.34 enterprise (I have not upgraded for years because the system has not stopped for even one second since we finalised the configuration in 2007. That in it's self is an indication of how good the program is.) Since installing the new servers at two of our sites I have had to pull them out of the replicator chain and link those sites to the main server in Sydney. This is causing big delays in the sites with the new servers and I need to get them back into the replicator ASAP. I have a plan to replace all our MySQL servers with MariaDB because I can no longer suffer the awfull disgusting lack of suport from Oracle. I have installed MariaDB 5.3.4 on the new server in Perth as a test and a starting point but I can not get it to load up data from an .sql dump file created by the older MySQL version 5.0.34. (Not Suprised given the age of the older versions) The syntax I use for creating the dump file is :- "mysqldump --opt --user=specialUser1 --password=specialpassword1 --routines mydatabase > mydatadump.sql" This brings me to my three questions. 1. Can I run version 5.3.4 with any other version in a daisy chain replication environment? 2. is there a way that I can dump all tables, views, procedures, functions, triggers and users from the old 5.0.34 version to the new 5.3.4 version for a selected DB schema? 3. Can I run MariaDB 5.3.4 on a mixture of 32 bit Win Server 2003 and 64 bit Win Server 2008 OS's and still get them to replicate Future direction... I am keen to move away from MySQL/Oracle and have noted at least one other company (SkyDB) that offers enterprise solutions for MariaDB. I would like to hear from anyone who has more information on enterprise solutions available for MariaDB. Our current agreement with MySQL ends at the end of March and I hope to be well clear of Oracle before then as I do not want to spend another ten to twenty thousand US dollars just to get nothing in return again, like the last two years. Thanks and Best Regards, Bruce Carlson. (Business Systems Manager) (www.Nepean.com) -- This message was sent from Launchpad by Bruce Carlson (https://launchpad.net/~bruce-carlson) to each member of the Maria Discuss team using the "Contact this team" link on the Maria Discuss team page (https://launchpad.net/~maria-discuss). For more information see https://help.launchpad.net/YourAccount/ContactingPeople