Global Transaction Identifiers – why, what, and how Next post: Advanced use of Global Transaction Identifiers This post was kindly translated to Japanese by Ryusuke Kajiyama. In MySQL 5.6 we introduced a new replication feature called Global Transaction Identifiers, or GTIDs. While there are many use cases, our primary motivation for introducing GTIDs is that it allows for seamless failover. By th
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