Import sample database into AWS RDS MySQL using Shell & Workbench

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Bytebase open-sourced an Employee sample database for MySQL github.com/bytebase/employee-sample-databas.. with two variations: A Full dataset (~170 MB) including 300024 employee records and a Small dataset (~6 MB) including 10000 employee records.

My task was straightforward - import the small dataset into our AWS instances for demo usage.

To start, I downloaded and unzipped the file.

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MySQL Shell

I would strictly follow the Installation instructions in Readme.

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As a prerequisite, MySQL Shell was installed.

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However, after installation, I still got this error - "MySQL command not found", where was the execution file?

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I tried to connect to my AWS MySQL instance, and it worked!

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Ensure I was under the "dataset_small" folder, then run the following -- succeeded!

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MySQL Workbench

As MySQL Workbench was already installed locally, I would try it as well. I connected it to AWS MySQL instance Dev.

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And let's import the data.

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