Using replicate-wild-do-table=% is not the correct way to get complete replication. That would seem sensible, but here's why it isn't:

• The replicate-* options are restrictive by their presence. The *-do-* options seem to be telling the server what to "do," but in fact they are telling the server what to only do.

• The complete absence of any replicate-* configuration variables means "replicate everything."

In the simplest case, when there are no --replicate-* options, the slave executes all statements that it receives from the master. Otherwise, the result depends on the particular options given. -- http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/replication-rules.html

That, I think, is the point you are needing. It holds true for all MySQL 5.x.

Once you enable binary logging, set the server-id values on each machine, synchronize the data sets, CHANGE MASTER TO ..., and then START SLAVE, then you should have a working configuration where all DML and DDL will be replicated and your servers will be identical replicas of each other.

If you started out with identical data sets, everything should behave exactly as you would expect it to.

What MySQL replication does best and simplest is replicate entire data sets among servers without any restrictions. Trying to restrict replication to a subset of the data is a process that should carry a warning label that ends with the phrase "...unless you really know what you're doing."

When you use the --replicate-* options, the document cited above also offers this tip:

it is recommended that you avoid mixing “do” and “ignore” options, or wildcard and nonwildcard options

You are using a mix of these, which adds complexity and may explain why your DDL didn't replicate as you expected it to.

Looking at the my.ini, I have two suggestions

SUGGESTION #1

I would bump up the following settings in your my.ini

sort_buffer_size=4M
join_buffer_size=4M

This will make some joins and sort stay in memory. Of course, once a JOIN or an ORDER BY needs more than 4M, it will page to disk as a MyISAM table.

If you cannot login as root@localhost, then restart mysql with

C:\> net stop mysql
C:\> net start mysql

If you can login as root@localhost, you do not have to restart mysql to use these settings.

Just run this in the MySQL client:

SET @FourMegs = 1024 * 1024 * 4;
SET GLOBAL sort_buffer_size = @FourMegs;
SET GLOBAL join_buffer_size = @FourMegs;

SUGGESTION #2

Since your Data is on Drive D:, you may have Disk I/O on Drive C:.

Please run this query:

mysql> show variables like 'tmpdir';
+---------------+-----------------+
| Variable_name | Value           |
+---------------+-----------------+
| tmpdir        | C:\Windows\TEMP |
+---------------+-----------------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)

Since I run mysql on my Desktop with defaults, my temp tables are being written to Drive C:. If Drive D is a better disk than Drive C:, perhaps you can map temp tables to Drive D: by setting tmpdir in my.ini as follows:

tmpdir="D:/DBs/"

You will have to restart mysql since tmpdir is not a dynamic variable.

Give it a Try !!!

UPDATE 2013-11-29 10:09 EST

SUGGESTION #3

Given the fact that MySQL is running in Windows and you cannot touch the queries in the core package, I have two ideas tat must be done together.

IDEA #1 : Move the Database to a Linux Machine

You should be able to

• Setup a Linux machine
• Install MySQL on the Linux machine
• Enable Binary Logging for MySQL in Windows
• mysqldump the database to a text SQL file
• Load SQL file to MySQL running in Linux
• Setup replication from MySQL/Windows to MySQL/Linux

IDEA #2 : Reconfigure Moodle to point to the Linux Machine

Moodle was designed for LAMP in the first place. Just change the config files to point to the Linux machine instead of localhost.

Here is a link to an old Moodle 2.3 doc on setting up MySQL : http://docs.moodle.org/23/en/Installing_Moodle#Create_an_empty_database

I am sure the latest docs are available as well.

What is the Point of Moving the Database to Linux ???

How does this help the temp table situation ???

I would then suggestion setting up a RAM disk as the target folder for your temp tables

• Jan 04, 2013 : Is there a MySQL engine or trick to avoid writing so many temp tables to disk?
• Dec 17, 2012 : Why does MySQL produce so many temporary MYD files? (Actual instructions)
• Nov 30, 2012 : Is it bad to create many mysql temporary tables simultaneously?

Temp table creation will still happen, but it will be written to RAM rather than disk. reducing Disk I/O.

UPDATE 2013-11-29 11:24 EST

SUGGESTION #4

I would suggest revisiting SUGGESTION #2 with a fast RAID-0 disk (32+ GB), configuring it as Drive T: (T for Temp). After installing such a disk, add this to my.ini:

[mysqld]
tmpdir="T:\"

MySQL restart would be required, using

net stop mysql
net start mysql

BTW I said RAID-0 on purpose so that you can get good write performance over a RAID-1, RAID-10. A tmp table disk is not something I would make redundant.

Without optimizing the queries as @RaymondNijland has been commenting on, you cannot reduce the temp table creation count in any way. SUGGESTION #3 and SUGGESTION #4 offer speeding up temp table creation and temp table I/O as the only alternative.