What is MySQL replication?

It is assumed that you are reading this for two reasons. You're familiar with MySQL replication and are willing to gain more knowledge, and perhaps you're unfamiliar with MySQL replication and want to learn.

MySQL replication is useful for serving lots of different purposes. Usually, people start thinking about MySQL replication when they start having more queries than a single database server can handle. Based on this, do you have any guesses on what MySQL replication is? Replication is the technique to have more than one databases set up to serve single or multiple client applications. A client can be an end user or person who sends a request for any query in terms of read data or write data from different devices, ...

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