You are managing a mission-critical Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL instance. Your application team is running important transactions on the database when another DBA starts an on-demand backup. You want to verify the status of the backup. What should you do?
Your organization needs to migrate a critical, on-premises MySQL database to Cloud SQL for MySQL. The on-premises database is on a version of MySQL that is supported by Cloud SQL and uses the InnoDB storage engine. You need to migrate the database while preserving transactions and minimizing downtime. What should you do?
Your customer is running a MySQL database on-premises with read replicas. The nightly incremental backups are expensive and add maintenance overhead. You want to follow Google-recommended practices to migrate the database to Google Cloud, and you need to ensure minimal downtime. What should you do?
You have an application that sends banking events to Bigtable cluster-a in us-east. You decide to add cluster-b in us-central1. Cluster-a replicates data to cluster-b. You need to ensure that Bigtable continues to accept read and write requests if one of the clusters becomes unavailable and that requests are routed automatically to the other cluster. What deployment strategy should you use?