Oracle 5.0 Reference Manual page 2927

MySQL 5.0 FAQ: Replication
The value shown will be one of STATEMENT, ROW, or MIXED. For mode, row-based logging is
MIXED
preferred but replication switches automatically to statement-based logging under certain conditions;
for information about when this may occur, see Mixed Binary Logging Format.
B.13.11: How do I tell a slave to use row-based replication?
Slaves automatically know which format to use.
B.13.12: How do I prevent and statements from replicating to slave machines?
GRANT REVOKE
Start the server with the [1460] option to ignore
--replicate-wild-ignore-table=mysql.%
replication for tables in the database.
mysql
B.13.13: Does replication work on mixed operating systems (for example, the master runs on
Linux while slaves run on Mac OS X and Windows)?
Yes.
B.13.14: Does replication work on mixed hardware architectures (for example, the master runs
on a 64-bit machine while slaves run on 32-bit machines)?
Yes.
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