This is pretty painless but somewhat nerve racking as there are a ton of options and I found myself getting terrified at each step that I was going to make some erroneous and irreversible choice. Step 1: Setting Up a MySQL Database on RDS I had to trouble shoot my own connection for several hours before getting to the point where I could follow along with the course. Importantly, their step-by-step guide to setting up and connecting to a MySQL database on Amazon RDS DID NOT work for me. Not the best Udemy course I’ve taken…worth the $8 I paid for it but certainly not a penny more. Again, I didn’t find this super helpful but some people might. I’m not a database engineer and I don’t actually understand a lot of stuff from Amazon’s AWS help resources. You can probably skip my tutorial entirely and just follow this one.Īmazon’s AWS guide to connecting MySQL Workbench to an RDS instance. I know next to nothing about security, performance, indexing, and a host of other database topics that are probably really, really important. This means there are A LOT of gaps in my knowledge. My interest in databases is pretty limited to their ability to efficiently deliver me the data I want. I have no meaningful experience in database engineering or systems architecture. I’m a reasonably experienced consumer/user of databases. The goal in this post is a simple proof-of-concept: get a relational database set up in Amazon’s RDS Service and access that database from my laptop using some open source (off-the-shelf) database management software. connecting to that database using MySQL Workbench.setting up a relational database on AWS.This one is dedicated to what should be the relatively simple, discrete task of: I suspect this side project will end up generating a few blog posts. Well, I picked up a little side project and decided it would be fun to finally try and set up a database on AWS. This isn’t really a hard roadblock, it’s just that a lot of my blog content is generated from little programming or data hurdles I encounter at work. The main thing that’s slowed me down is that we cannot store government data on/in Amazon’s AWS ecosystem. The performance on running queries is better than making changes into the large Create/Insert SQL file.I’ve been wanting to beef-up my AWS skills for a long time. I spent a couple of minutes copying the table without dupes, and I was ready to go. I ended up loading the data twice because the insert statement didn’t display a friendly green checkmark. I had to update some of the varchar(MAX) statements to varchar(#). I opened the SQL file and executed the statements. Under the schema of ‘demo’ that I created, I used the SQL file generated by konbert. After adding that TCP rule, I immediately was able to connect. I had to go back into my AWS VPC and allow access. MySQL was kicking me errors telling me to check my password and access. Connecting to your AWS database instanceįollowing the instructions took me 90% of the way. I had to make a couple of small changes to prevent errors within MySQL Workbench, but still worth it. You upload your data file, and it gets converted into your Create and Insert SQL statements. I am unable to speak to their data security as I was using a public dataset. Always on a quest to try different tools, I used konbert ( ). To load the data into a table, it needs to be converted into an SQL Insert Statement. It will guide you on the step by step setup of a free Tier instance. This link will direct you to an excellent guide provided by AWS. From your Console, search for the Amazon RDS Services. If you are setting up your account for the first time, there are some free tier options. This tutorial assumes that you have an account set up with AWS. Once the data was loaded, the query performance from the Workbench to AWS and back was reasonably quick. My insert SQL file to build the data rows kept freezing up my app. While the database instance for MySQL worked as expected, the MySQL Workbench leaves much to be desired. Not every interaction with AWS is a smooth process, though this experience went well. I will start and end any argument with ‘Free Tier.’ĪWS is obviously a popular platform. I am sharing these database setup experiences. Wanting to use real data instead of curated Kaggle datasets, I set up my database instances across various cloud platforms. While writing a series of articles on how to answer various business questions using SQL, I needed to find public datasets.
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