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<strong>Important Notice:</strong><p> This is a beta service and is not yet ready for use in data intensive applications.
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<h2>About</h2>
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This service provides <a href="http://www.mysql.com/">MySQL</a> databases to <a href="http://ca.mit.edu/">Athena account</a> holders.
-You must choose a MySQL password (independent of your Athena account) when you <a href="signup">Signup</a> and then use this interface to create and drop your MySQL databases.
+You must choose a MySQL password (independent of your Athena account) when you <a href="signup">Signup</a> and then use this interface to create and drop databases.
All subsequent SQL commands can be issued from any host, client, and/or script of your choosing.
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<h2>Backups</h2>
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-As you work with your SQL data, it is automatically saved on an additional secondary SQL server for restoration in the event of a single server failure.
-<strong>We strongly recommend you keep your own backups for your own independent use in all other cases.</strong>
-Although we continually put forth our best efforts, we can make no guarantees on the reliability of the service and access to the data.</p>
+<strong>We strongly recommend you keep backups of your SQL schema and data.</strong>
+As you work with your SQL data, it is automatically saved on an additional secondary SQL server for restoration in the event of a server failure.
+Although we continually put forth our best efforts, we can make no guarantees on the reliability of the service and access to the data.
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<h2>Quotas</h2>
Users should instead store these types of data in AFS and use SQL tables only to catalogue it.
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+<strong>Always use this interface to create and drop databases.</strong>
+Although you can drop any of your databases outside this interface, doing so will not relinquish your rights to that database and will therefore still count against your quota.
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<h2>Disclaimer</h2>
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We reserve the right to suspend or terminate your MySQL account at any time and for any or no reason.
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+We perform no query logging, schema or data backups, or any other backups otherwise generally available. You are solely responsible for performing backups of your data.
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We maintain general usage statistics of this service by the MIT community at large.
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