gh-ost: GitHub's Online Schema Migration Tool for MySQL

Shlomi Noach

2016 github.blog

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Shlomi Noach. "gh-ost: GitHub's Online Schema Migration Tool for MySQL." github.blog, August 2016. Archived at perma.cc/7XAG-XB72

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gh-ost: GitHub's online schema migration tool for MySQL - The GitHub Blog

Today we are announcing the open source release of gh-ost: GitHub’s triggerless online schema migration tool for MySQL. gh-ost has been developed at GitHub in recent months to answer a…

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