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Avoiding “Waiting for table metadata lock” when `ALTER TABLE DROP PARTITION`?

I have some tables that many users need to access to: mysql> show create table v3_cam_date\G *************************** 1. row *************************** Table: v3_cam_date Create Table: ...
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Modify all tables in a database with a single command

Is there a single or a one line command to modify all tables within a database. I would like to issue this command in every table within a database: ALTER TABLE `table_name` CONVERT TO CHARACTER SET ...
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MySQL: optimal configs / methods for ALTER of large MyISAM table to InnoDB (17gb+) [duplicate]

I have a large MySQL (5.1) MyISAM table (13gb table, 4GB indexes - 40mm+ records) I'm going to be converting this table to InnoDB in a production environment. The DB is on a cloud server with ...
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Modify MySQL foreign key related column without dropping foreign key relation

I need to modify a foreign key related column. When I tried to alter it I got "Error on rename of 'x' to 'y' (errno: 150)" error. So I googled and found foreign key relation is the 'villain'. I ...
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How to make a trigger that will compare input with a value of other table?

I had made two tables with the following fields: TABLE 1: "Bookings" FIELD: "fk_flight_number" FIELD: "date_of_reservation" TABLE 2: "Flights" FIELD: "flight_number" FIELD: ...
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Alter table on live production databases

How do most "popular" (MySQL, Postgres...) database system handle altering tables on live production databases (like adding, deleting or changing the type of colums)? I know the correct way is to ...
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How do I swap tables in MySQL?

Suppose, I have a table foo, which contains some statistics that are computed every now and then. It is heavily used by other queries. That's why I want to compute more recent statistics in foo_new ...
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how to use mysql temporal cache tables

I took this example from a book where visitors_today is the cache table from visitor_stored. The idea is to store all the visitors per day (visitors_stored) using a cache table. Create table ...
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Changing collation type database-wide in MySQL

How do I retroactively update the collation type database wide without dropping and recreating it? I accidentally created a database without specifying UTF8 as the default collation type. I then went ...
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Will an ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMN on a slave break replication?

I need to add a last_modified column to a MyISAM table tbl_items. The crux of this problem is that tbl_items houses several gigabytes of data. Also of note, I am using a master-slave deployment with ...
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Preventing replication of alter table command to change engine

I am in the process of switching a MySQL table from MyISAM to InnoDB and I do not want the slave to perform the alter table command until I execute it manually. The intention is to have a backup for a ...
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How to recover previous values in Mysql Table?

I have MySQL Innodb table of 14M rows. There was a coloumn called is_disabled which had different values. By mistake I ran the query without the where clause: update url_queue set is_disabled=1 ...
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MySQL - fastest way to ALTER TABLE for InnoDB

I have an InnoDB table that I want to alter. The table has ~80M rows, and quit a few indices. I want to change the name of one of the columns and add a few more indices. What is the fastest way to ...
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Can I rename the values in a MySQL ENUM column in one query?

Suppose I have a Database table with an ENUM('value_one','value_two'). I want to change that to an ENUM('First value','Second value'). I an currently doing that as follows: ALTER TABLE `table` MODIFY ...
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Preordering the table by a specified column

I have a table and I am always getting the data by ordering a column. In my case, I order by datenum. However, the selection is so slow because of the ordering. Is it possible to order the table ...
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ALTER TABLE on a large table with an indexed column

I have a large table with a VARCHAR(20) column, and I need to modify that to become a VARCHAR(50) column. Typically, performing an ALTER TABLE (adding a TINYINT) on this particular table takes about ...