[asterisk-users] Can we use MySQL native connector for ARA?

[Bruce Ferrell]

On 10/20/2011 05:59 AM, JR Richardson wrote:
>> Hello Everyone,
>>
>> The documentation suggests using unixodbc for asterisk realtime. Is
>> there any way
>> we can just use native database clients such as libmysqlclient from
>> MySQL? The native
>> clients tend to be more up-to-date.
>>
>> Thanks in Advance,
>>
>> Nick.
> I've used the MySQL addon for years with great success, initiated the
> project to support read/write to separate databases for asterisk clustering.
> You will get more functionality for complex queries using the odbc
> connector, but for basic ARA applications, the MySQL addon works fine and
> I've never had a problem with stability.  I also use the cdr_mysql as well.
>
> I wrote a couple of papers on asterisk_clustering_with_mysql_replication.
> They are a bit dated but still relevant.  I'll send over if you like.
>
> Good luck.
>
> JR

Hey JR!

I've used the native MySQL connector too with great results.  Maybe you could post a link to the paper(s) on voip-info.org for posterity.  I know I'd love to seem them too

Bruce Ferrell