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Is it okay to use rsync on InnoDB database if the MySQL server is shutdown?

Is it okay to use rsync on InnoDB database if the MySQL server is shutdown ? For example : /etc/init.d/mysql stop rsync -av /home/mysql/mydb/ root@newserver.com:/home/mysql
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Database migration, how to

I have two databases DB1 and DB2. In both databases exists this two tables mo_sms and mt_sms. This is the structure of those tables: CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `mo_sms` ( `id_MO` int(11) unsigned ...
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Tool to export data with all relational data?

Is there a tool to export data from selected rows in a table with all data stored in other tables in other tables linked by relational design? The purpose is to ease migrations of bits of data ...
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How to migrate SQL Server to MySQL

I'm trying to migrate a SQL Server db to MySQL, and I'm having a tough time. I've tried: MySQLWorkbench -- migration tool fails because my login only shows views in SQL Server, not the tables ...
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How can I migrate a sybase database to mysql?

I've been tasked with migrating a fairly complex legacy Sybase database into a MySQL database and I have no idea where to start. I can't use any off the shelf software, so I'm going to have to write ...
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SQL Server to MySQL migration - how can I remove UCS-2 surrogate pairs in SQL Server?

I have been tasked with migrating a SQL Server 2005 database to MySQL 5.6 (these are both database servers runnig locally) and would really appreciate some help. -------Edit - Answered------- This ...
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Physically migrate MySQL without a dump

A client ask me to migrate his MySQL DB: The server doesn't have free space and it also has a very big table that is broken, so I can't dump it. I can't REPAIR it because of lacking of free space. ...
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Migrating from Oracle to MySQL using WorkBench Migration Tool

I am currently migrating from Oracle to MySQL and I am going to use the migration tool in workbench to help me with the procedure. I have entered my source connection details as follows: Database ...
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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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Transfer selected information from a SQL Server business server to a MySQL web server?

I have a SQL Server dedicated server used for business information on service users etc, and a VPN with MySQL for the main website operation. I wish to transfer some selected tables from SQL Server to ...
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Migrating MySQL to new server

We have a MySQL 5.1 instance running on Windows Server 2008 R2 x64 (Server A) replicated to another MySQL 5.1 instance on Windows Server 2003 R2 (Server B). We have a new MySQL 5.5 instance on ...
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Migrating from MySQL to Cassandra without DataStax

Currently have a MySQL DB used by a Java app. As we are seeing growth, looking at feasibility of moving to Cassandra and how expensive the move would be. I understand that we will have to heavily ...
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migrations within transactions

I have a bash script to run migrations on our MySQL databases. Is it possible to wrap migrations within a single transaction when running multiple migration scripts from the command line? ...
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Help me convert SQL statement to MySQL

I have an application called Moodle version 1.9 and was migrated from Windows platform and Microsoft SQL Server to Linux and MySQL. Now, when I click save changes the SQL query statement from Custom ...
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ETA: translate Oracle SQL queries to MySQL

task: replace Oracle 11g with MySQL current setup: Oracle 11g SE One about 80 tables stored procedures, PL/SQL are in place but out of scope for this question client applications do not use a ...
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Converting a large SQL Server database to MySQL. Database corruption? Can't access data after transferring

I have gigabytes of tabular data stored in a SQL Server database. I've been trying to migrate it to MySQL using the Migration Toolkit from Oracle. I didn't have any mapping errors and fixed all the ...
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Fastest way to move a database from one server to another

I'm moving a single MySQL database (~10GB uncompressed) from one server to another on the same network. The current MySQL version is 5.1.41 and the new version is 5.5.24. The database contains both ...
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Migrating and normalizing data

We are rewriting a large Django application which uses a MySQL database, and the database schema needs to undergo major modifications. We're also porting the app to use PostgreSQL, for a couple of ...
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php/mysql database redesign and migration: changing databases to tables

I wrongly designed my application to have one database to each user. each user had 3 similar tables. I now want to have one database and 3 tables only; where i will use the database name in the old ...
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How do you migrate a database from SQL Server 2008 to MySQL?

I'm just getting into MySQL, so forgive me if this is a basic question. For my application I need to migrate my database from SQL Server 2008 R2 to MySQL. Is there any mechanism or technique or ...
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Logical schema development and migration tool for different physical schema available including triggers and stored procedures?

We are planning to support for our application another rdbms (oracle). At the moment we are design our database schema with the MySQL-Workbench. For every new database version we have schema ...
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How to migrate large blob table from mysql to postgresql?

I'm now in process of migrating my MySQL database to PostgreSQL. Almost everything went fine (well, after lots of googling for correct mysqldump params etc.) except one table I have - actually the ...
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Need to migrate SQL Server to MySQL

I have a database on SQL Server 2008 on a Windows server and I want to move all of the data to a MySQL database on a Ubuntu server. I have tried using the SQL Server Import and Export Wizard with the ...
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Should I move to InnoDB during a planned migration?

I'm shortly migrating a Debian Lenny webserver to another host and Debian Squeeze. The standard MySQL installation even on Squeeze is 5.1 and therefore would default to MyISAM - I'm inclined to stick ...
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Migration from DB2 to MySQL

Does any one have experience on migration from DB2 to MySQL ? Please share with me. I tried googling, but I have not received much information on this.
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How can I move a database from one server to another?

How can I move MySQL tables from one physical server to another? Such as this exact scenario: I have a MySQL server that uses innodb table and is about 20GB size. I want to move it to a new server, ...