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Creating a MySQL Database in Cloud SQL

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Creating a MySQL Database in Cloud SQL

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- [Instructor] It takes a lot of effort to properly maintain and tune a database. Cloud SQL is a fully managed database service for MySQL, Postgres, and SQL Server. Cloud SQL takes care of uptime, replication, backups, and scaling. Let's create our first database instance by clicking on CREATE INSTANCE. Cloud SQL will give us three options for our database engines. Let's pick MySQL. To create a MySQL instance, we'll have to fill up this form. You can set the Instance ID to anything you want. For this one, let's use my-pet-project-database. Next, the Root password is the password for the root user of our database. We can set it to No password, or we can press the Generate button to create a unique and secure password for us. Let's copy-paste this for our reference later. Here, we pick the region and the zone, which is basically the location of where our database instance will run. Ideally, keep it in the same location…

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