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How can I automate copying DB2 table data between remote Servers?

I have two IBM DB2 servers at separate remote locations. I need to copy data from several tables on one database on the first server to another database in the second server. Previously I've used ...
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What happen when Postgresql tablespace is null?

I'm facing a DWH on postgresql with no DBA (I'm not one) so I turn to you with hope to figure this issue/s. Long story short, when I check the disk usage per tablespace, I get different distribution ...
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Moving postgresql data directory

I moved postgresql's data directory by following the following steps: Stop postgres cp -a source_data_directory destination_data_directory export PGDATA=destination_data_directory Changing data ...
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How to Change location of postgres cluster and database within the same machine? [duplicate]

I have my present database cluster of postgres at /mnt/my_hard_drive which I want to change to /home/myfolder. I also want to move all my databases present in the present cluster to /home/myfolder. Is ...
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change data directory postgres with database cluster [duplicate]

I have my present database cluster of postgres at /mnt/my_hard_drive which I want to change to /home/myfolder. I also want to move all my databases present in the present cluster to /home/myfolder. Is ...
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Converting dbo file from windows to linux

I have a .dbo file which is created from windows. This file is succesfully reloaded into the mysql database in windows. I need to reload the dbo file into the mysql/mariadb database in linux. How I ...
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What tools are there for data masking? (MySQL, Linux)

I'm looking for (ideally free, open-source) data masking tools. Do any such exist? Note: this related question deals with tools for generating test data, but in this question I'm more interested in ...
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How much RAM for a large database on a dedicated MySQL InnoDB server?

Hereunder my hardware config: CPU: 1x Intel Xeon X3470 Quad core @ 2.93GHz RAM: 4x 8GB DDR3 Disks: 2 x SATA 320GB for the system & 4 x SAS 300GB for the DB I've upgraded from 12Gb to 32Gb and ...
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mysqldump: Got error: 1017: Can't find file: 'drupal_install_test' (errno: 2) when using LOCK TABLES

I'm trying to backup a drupal site database but I'm having some issues. When I ran the following command: mysqldump -uroot -p drupaSite > drupaSite.sql I get the following error: mysqldump: Got ...
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createdb: could not connect to database postgres: FATAL: could not write init file

RedHat Enterprise Server 3.0 32 Bits psql (PostgreSQL) 8.2.3 user: postgres server is running: /soft/postgres/8.2.3/bin/pg_ctl start pg_ctl: another server may be running; trying to start server ...
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mysqld dead but subsys locked

I'm executing the following command in a shell script and I'm executing this on an RHEL-6 server and MySQL version 5.1.47- mysqld_safe --defaults-extra-file=/custom/path/of/my.cnf The path of ...
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Limit memory used for mongoDb

Is there any way to limit using RAM for mongodb on Debian? I'm looking for a solution fo about 8 hours, but have no results.
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How to avoid lagging when enabling log-slave-updates?

Master: 48GB RAM 16-core my.cnf: https://clbin.com/hlkUo Slave: 64GB RAM 24-core my.cnf: https://clbin.com/viLm0 Both are running 5.5.28. For the incremental backup purpose, I need to enable ...
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Can I find out what version of MySQL from the data files?

I have a very odd situation going on here. I had a linux box running ubuntu 8.10 and MySQL server with a Wordpress installation on it hosting an internal blog for our company. The machine that this ...
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Database creation on Linux with dbca: “command not found”

I have installed an Oracle on my machine. When I open a session with VNCServer and type dbca, either as root or as oracle, I get these errors: -bash : -dbca : Command Not found Xlib: connection to ...
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Proper procedure for migrating a MySQL database to another Debian machine?

I have one server running an older Debian version with MySQL 5.x and a newer Debian server, also running MySQL. I've created a backup of all databases on the first server like so: mysqldump -uuser ...
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consequences of using “innodb_flush_method = O_DIRECT” without having a battery backed write cache? or on a KVM guest?

Mysql 5.5.29 Innodb- 128GB Ram - 32 cores - Raid 10 SSD. Our server which is a dedicated KVM guest on a 'baremetal' is hosting our heavy read-write DB server. Everything is file-per-table. ...
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MySQL said “InnoDB: Initializing buffer pool, size = 128.0M”, does it mean it is using 128MB RAM?

I am just using a very few InnoDB tables (e.g. less than 1MB), but during MySQL startup, it said InnoDB: Initializing buffer pool, size = 128.0M Does it mean even I am using in such a small size, ...
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MySQL slave stuck in “Reading event from the relay log”?

5.5.28-log MySQL Community Server (GPL) by Remi binlog-format=MIXED My problem is similar to this question. *************************** 2. row *************************** Id: 973415 User: ...
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Improving SQL Server performance on VMware under Linux

I have a Linux server in a small company (3 users) acting as a domain server and running two VMs under VMware: one has SQL Server 2000 on it and one has SQL Server 2005, in each case running on ...
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which process has created a load spike on my server last week?

O.S.:Linux MYSQL server we got a load spike last week. how can I find the process that has created the load spike on my server last week.
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MySQL my.cnf won't take any effect

Update 7 As DerekDowney suggested, I tried to use [mysqld] init_connect=SET NAMES 'utf8' But I could not get the desired result. My client side java programme still says both session and global ...
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MySQL Replication Troubleshooting

Here's what I did. On the master, change /etc/my.cnf: [mysqld] server-id=1 log-bin=mysql-bin innodb_flush_log_at_trx_commit=1 sync_binlog=1 Save and restart mysql, then log in. >GRANT ...
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clusterdb stopped working for PostgreSQL database in Ubuntu 12.04 server

After a fresh PostgreSQL install (version 9.2) on my Ubuntu server 12.04, clusterdb utility stopped working. I used the same config files as I used with version 9.1. Below is the actual command: ...
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How to implement security model?

I have installed Oracle 11g on fedora 14. I connected with SQL*Plus as 'SYS' and created some tables, then created a user named "account" and a role, "payroll" with the following privileges. I ...
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Why using innodb_file_per_table?

There are many articles exaggerating (IMHO of course) the need for innodb_file_per_table. I understand that with innodb_file_per_table, there should be a better control over the individual tables; ...
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Mysql synchronization databases on one machine

I have MySQL databases. Database A and Database B. Running on Mysql 5.5 and Ubuntu 12.04. Into Database A i am doing INSERTs, UPDATEs every minute (cron) (The whole database has over 15 millions ...
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How to properly kill MySQL?

I have CentOS 64bit with CPanel installed and I use service mysql stop However, it keeps doing ..... for minutes and it never stops. It used to be instant. Any idea why it does that and how to fix? ...
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Can I change the SID of an Oracle database?

The Server is Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.1.0.7.0 - 64bit Is there an easy & quick way to change the SIDs of the test databases on the server? Dropping & recreating of ...
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How to properly kill MySQL? [duplicate]

I have CentOS 64bit with CPanel installed and I use service mysql stop However, it keeps doing ..... for minutes and it never stops. It used to be instant. Any idea why it does that and how to fix? ...
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How to copy MySQL Database from Linux to Windows?

I would like to copy a MySQL database form Linux to Windows, from a little research I found this url http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/howto-copy-mysql-database-remote-server.html where the author says we ...
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How open oracle DB Linux (After installation)

I have just installed Oracle 11gR2 on my Linux Mint Distro (xfce). All worked fine, and I was able to acces to https://localhost:1158/em [Erreur 102 (net::ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED) ] I rebooted my ...
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How to write a shell script to check the mysql database backup status.

I have mysql production databases running in main server(Linux) and from this server every night the backup is taken into local server. Now i want to find a shell script to check if all the databases ...
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Is it okay to have different lower_case_table_names value on master and slave?

I have a OSX MySQL master with lower_case_table_names set to 2. I have just setup a Linux MySQL slave with lower_case_table_names=1. I haven't started replication on the slave, but everything looks ...
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Migrating database from OSX to Linux

I followed the setup in below link, to setup mysql. Basically, I am have a master on OS X server and want to setup a linux slave. Create a mysql slave database from master database After I copied ...
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issues with encoding and pg_dump/restore between windows and linux

I have a dmp file I have created using pg_dump encoded in WIN1252. What I would like to do is import it using pg_restore to a database on a Linux machine. The problem is that on the windows machine ...
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Postgresql - Segmentation fault (core dumped)

I'm working on postgresql code (server side). I installed a version from source code following the official tutorial: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/interactive/install-short.html I did same ...
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how to install zabbix agent in agent host which we are adding from server to monitor

following this site i have intsalled zabbix server and agent in centos 6.0 zabbix version :1.8.5 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKfYm-3thRM but i am unable to add agent that is how to add other ...
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Choosing between MyISAM & InnoDB - two servers with related tables

I don't want to make a mistake. I am about to put my website online and I admit I haven't thought about which MySQL engine to choose: MyISAM or InnoDB. I read here and there that InnoDB should be ...
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Open source alternative to SQLMaestro for PostgreSQL

I'm looking for oen source alternative to SQLMaestro for PostgreSQL because it has visual database designer which not avaliable in pgAdmin which make database desinging so easy. PS I'm not sure if ...
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Linux Error: 29: Illegal seek in LSNRCTL for Linux Version 11.2

I'm trying to get Oracle Database 11g Express set up on my server so that it is accessible from the outside. I can talk to the DB locally using SQLPlus, so the database is definitely running. I ...
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MySQL Tables crashing randomly

This is one of the many random Tables that get corrupted. Any ideas why and what would be causing this? How do I keep MySQL tables from crashing and MySQL from crashing? Repairing USR_wp537 ...
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Does a standby slow down Oracle imp?

I have Oracle 10gR2 installed on Redhat Linux 5.4 on two servers (primary and physical standby). When I import data into the primary server while the standby is started it takes too long to complete ...
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MongoDB Master and Slave Replication - Windows or Linux

I have recently moved my MS SQL Server Database to MongoDB (2.0) on Windows Server 2008. Its containing 2 databases with following stats. (both databases get around 100 reads/writes per second). These ...
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Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2)! in Fedora16

I installed MariaDB server in linux using tar file(mariadb-5.5.28a-linux-i686.tar.gz) followed by the instructions from this link : https://kb.askmonty.org/en/installing-mariadb-binary-tarballs/. ...
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mysql statement based replication - unsafe statements

I have recently set up statement based replication and my error logs are filling up with this error 121231 21:10:55 [Warning] Unsafe statement written to the binary log using statement format ...
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Tool for Reverse Engineering of PostgreSQL Database on Linux (Ubuntu)

Please suggest a tool to reverse engineer a PostgreSQL DB into an entity-relationship-diagram (ERD) or equivalent ?? Ideally, I'm looking for a simple ERD or UML class diagram in a format that is ...
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Freeware GUI tool for DB2 , usable in Ubuntu Linux

Are there any freeware user interface tools for DB2 to be used in Linux (Ubuntu 11.04)? RazorSQL is pretty good, but it's not freeware.
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how do I create a database and user? getting started with Oracle 10g xe [closed]

I keep getting database not open error whenever I try committing anything with the user \ as sysdba how do I get started, create a table, create a tablespace and a user?
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Set up replication and migrate to InnoDB with low downtime

Current situation is this: I have a large legacy DB using only MyISAM tables, the size of whole DB is 4GiB, one of the tables contains over 10 million rows, so it is pretty large. The database is ...

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