Prepare Database Users and Privileges for Oracle GoldenGate for MySQL

Requirements for the database user for Oracle GoldenGate processes are as follows:

• Create a database user that is dedicated to Oracle GoldenGate. It can be the same user for all the Oracle GoldenGate processes that must connect to a database.

• To preserve the security of your data, and to monitor Oracle GoldenGate processing accurately, do not permit other users, applications, or processes to log on as, or operate as, the Oracle GoldenGate database user.

• Keep a record of the database users. They must be specified in the Oracle GoldenGate parameter files with the USERID parameter.

• The Oracle GoldenGate user requires read access to the INFORMATION_SCHEMA database.

• The Oracle GoldenGate user requires the following user privileges.

  Privilege	Source Extract	Target Replicat	Purpose
  SELECT	Yes	Yes	Connect to the database and select object definitions
  REPLICATION SLAVE	Yes	NA	Connect and receive updates from the replication master’s binary log
  CREATE CREATE VIEW EVENT INSERT UPDATE DELETE	Yes	Yes	Source and target database heartbeat and checkpoint table creation, and data record generation and purging
  DROP	Yes	Yes	Dropping a Replicat checkpoint table or deleting a heartbeat table implementation
  EXECUTE	Yes	Yes	To execute stored procedures
  INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE on target tables	NA	Yes	Apply replicated DML to target objects
  DDL privileges on target objects (if using DDL support)	NA	Yes	Issue replicated DDL on target objects

• To capture binary log events, an Administrator must provide the following privileges to the Extract user:

  • Read and Execute permissions for the directory where the MySQL configuration file (my.cnf) is located.

  • Read permission for the MySQL configuration file (my.cnf).

  • Read and Execute permissions for the directory where the binary logs are located.

  • Read and Execute permission for the tmp directory. The tmp directory is /tmp.