MySQL HeatWave User Guide

4.2.6 Load Data Manually

You can manually load data from InnoDB tables in your DB System into MySQL HeatWave Cluster by using SQL data definition language (DDL) such as CREATE TABLE and ALTER TABLE statements.

Perform the following steps sequentially for each table that you want to load:

MySQL version 8.2.0 or higher has a guided load feature which allows you to skip the first two steps and load the data from a table or one or partitions of a table directly with a single ALTER TABLE statement.