MySQL 5.5 brought many performance enhancements and expanded the feature set of the popular open-source RDBMS.

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how to add removed partition?

This is the structure of my table: -- Table: t_keyword_conversion_ga -- Create Table: CREATE TABLE `t_keyword_conversion_ga` ( `id` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, `own_domain_id` int(11) DEFAULT ...
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How to change a MySQL previous slave to be a master and remove slave status information?

I have a master -> slave configuration where the master failed. I've been able to reset the old-slave to be a master and the old-master to slave from it. Fine. What I can't seem to do is to remove ...
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Does mysqld wait for init-script code to complete before opening the instance?

I'm trying to automate the execution of an application code at MySQL startup. The init-file server option seems handy and I need to know if mysqld waits for all the code in the init-file to complete ...
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Unable to take backup of mysql database using Xtrabackup

I am trying to take mysql backup without any downtime but unable to take the backup using Xtrabackup . Actual Database is almost about 40+ GB in size. I am trying to first satisfy myself. Hence, I ...
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What's the most unsafe MySQL configuration?

I have MySQL 5.5.27-29.0-log instance running specifically for Jenkins. Since tests data is always recreated during setup, ACID is unnecessary and I'm hoping to sacrifice it to gain more performance. ...
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How to grant access for multiple tables to a user in MySQL DB?

I have mysql db named "greats" with four tables as below +---------------------+ | Tables_in_greatstat | +---------------------+ | log | | sitedet1 | | siteindex ...
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MySQL cluster stuck in start phase 4, how to proceed?

Over the weekend our cluster we set up for evaluation had one of its data nodes lose network connectivity briefly. This was while another data node was in the middle of a restart (which had been going ...
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Please help configure my Mysql for 12GB 4cores server

I use a dedicated server with 12GB memory and 4 core CPU with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (x64). This not just a database server. MySQL appears to be restarting frequently, I think I can tune the config to ...
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how to install mysql on mac?

My Mac runs Mac OS X, version 10.7.5., so it's a 64 bit system. First, I downloaded mysql-5.5.28-osx10.6-x86_64.dmg. Then I double clicked mysql-5.5.28-osx10.6-x86_64.dmg, it's mounted, and shows ...
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Not able to create a new table new_table from t1 by comparing primary key values of another table t2 in MYSQL

I am trying to create a new table new_table from t1 by comparing primary key values of another table t2 ie, 1) created table new_table 2) gave the query insert into new_table select a.* ...
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Restriction on self referencing on insert in MYSQL?

How to restrict insert on adding self referencing rows in a recursive relation table (a table contains foreign key points itself). mysql> SELECT * FROM Employee; ...
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How to Update same table on deletion in MYSQL?

In my Database I have a table: Employee with recursive association, an employee can be boss of other employee. Following is query I used to create table: CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `Employee` ...
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How to Add Federated engine after installing Mysql

I have Mysql 5.5.18 and upon show engines: show engines; +--------------------+---------+------------------------------------------------------------+--------------+------+------------+ | Engine ...
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How to create multi volume file backup using symantec backup.exec

I am using symantec backup .exec for backup and restore in mysql server . Now I am in need to take larger database backup in tape .But it exeeds the tape storage and I am trying to create a multi ...
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mysql emits BINLOG rows even though binlog_­format=­STATEMENT

We have MySQL 5.5 installed, we have the binlog_format=STATEMENT (the default) According to the MySQL Documentation, the binary log should contain SQL statements only, but we still see BINLOG rows in ...
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mysql session logging tables

I've been building a session logging system for our sites. We get around ~15m hits a year and at the moment we're really only interested in stats about people who logon to our sites. Our table ...
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MySql - Changing expire_logs_days without restarting the server

I'm using MySql 5.5. Is it possible to change expire_logs_days and have the changes take effect without restarting the server?
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Query to take partial backup in MYSQL

I tried to take full backup in mysql using enterprise backup by using the command mysqlbackup -u root -p --backup-dir=g:\full_bck backup But I could not take backup of a single database , I ...
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how to improve performance of my query it was taking more than one hour in my environment

How can I improve performance of below query? It was running more than one hour to execute in my production environment. Query plan: mysql> explain SELECT transaction_detail.trans_id, ...
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How to COUNT number of rows with LIMIT?

I want to catch X rows, thus, I set LIMIT X; but how can I simultaneously count the total number of rows too? Currently, I use two separate queries to do so as SELECT COUNT(*) FROM col WHERE CLAUSE ...
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Retrieve double data type value in non exponential form

Is it possible to retrieve non-exponential value in double data type column? After the width of the column is increased to 15 it shows the values in exponential form. Now I get the following: ...
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How can I change the timezone in MySQL?

In a MySQL DB, I have two varchar fields. One is for date and one is for time. I need to change the time from CST to GMT. In MySQL how do we convert the combination of these date and time fields from ...
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Optimizing MySQL for a shared hosting setup

This is my current setup: [mysqld] default-storage-engine=MyISAM local-infile=0 symbolic-links=0 max_connections = 500 max_user_connections = 25 key_buffer = 64M myisam_sort_buffer_size = 32M ...
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Query from database

I have a table named mip. The table has primary key id, a foreign key product_id and a column usage_type. product_id is a primary key id to a table named product. It is one to many relationship from ...
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mysqld-multi with first DB as Slave and second DB as Master

Yesterday, I setup mysqld-multi in my.cnf. It works fantastic, but there is still a further Problem. The first DB on socket 1 running as Slave from a other server. The second one from socket 2 ...
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Error connecting to DB

In regards to: http://serverfault.com/questions/442218/remounting-mysql-under-a-new-mount-point Everything is running. MySQL started but for websites they can not connect to the mysql database at ...
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MySQL Cluster Steps To Recover Data If Catstrophic Failure Occurs

I want to know if a catstrophic failure occurs (like a power outage), and all nodes in MySQL Cluster are shutdown in cluster then data will be lost even though a backup was taken? Or it possible that ...
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MySql - selecting into file and re-loading it with special characters

I have a MySql table called twitter_statuses which as the title suggests holds twitter statuses. here is the table structure. this table contains all sort of characters in the text column, and some ...
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Scaling Percona datacenters: setup and replication

Since our startup has taken off nicely we are now meeting with some of those issues that you always assumed would NEVER effect you. We have already scaled alot of our application stack: we offloaded ...
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`show procedure status` doesn't list all of the procedures?

mysql-server-5.5.28-1.el5.remi I'm pulling my hair with this problem: only EMS SQL Manager can list all of my store procedures (1763). mysql client, mysql-workbench, Navicat, ... only see some of ...
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Handling error of foreign key

How to set a FK value NULL upon receiving error for foreign key constraint? Consider a simple table a CREATE TABLE test ( id int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT ex_key int(11), FOREIGN ...
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How can I enable my-huge file on windows server?

I installed Windows Server 2008 and MySQL 5.5. Now I need configure MySQL for huge InnoDB tables and a lot of connections. I see that on my Windows Server, there is a my-huge file(configs files that ...
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Does my table violate normalization rules?

I am developing an emulator for a game. My item table looks like this: -- ---------------------------- -- Table structure for `items` -- ---------------------------- DROP TABLE IF EXISTS `items`; ...
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Do I need to index a key that I partition by?

I have an InnoDB table of customers, partitioned by KEY, with each partition being one US state. I have an index on phone number, and the performance is great. We also need to SELECT by last name in ...
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Does MySQL 5.5 support shared database with separate schema?

I am developing a SaaS based product using MySQL 5.5 as the backend database. I want to keep shared database for all the tenants, but separate a database schema of each tenant. There would be a single ...
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Null Values and Performance

I always try to build the database avoiding any NULL values in my tables, and I have successfully had done this so far. (Hey, I am very new to database design.) But still there are times when saving ...
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MySQL varchar(255) limitation & Anomaly

I have defined a column in my MySQL database as : ALTER TABLE `my_table` CHANGE `desc` `desc` VARCHAR( 255 ) CHARACTER SET latin1 COLLATE latin1_swedish_ci NOT NULL However, when I enter text ...
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Is there a way to get slow-query-log-like profiling information on a single query?

Specifically, I'm looking for this information: # Query_time: 0.011922 Lock_time: 0.000088 Rows_sent: 107 Rows_examined: 663 Rows_affected: 0 Rows_read: 107 # Bytes_sent: 4152 Tmp_tables: 3 ...
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intermittent MySQL crashes with error “Fatal error: cannot allocate memory for the buffer pool”

I'm a beginner system administrator for a small virtual server. The main function of the server is to run the open-source Moodle course management system software, written in PHP. It relies on a ...
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Some queries slower in MySQL 5.5 than 5.0?

We have an exceptionally inefficient process (1.3 million selects, 232k updates) that I'm now recoding to be 1 select and 50 updates. In the meantime, though, today's process ran. We recently updated ...
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MySQL InnoDB crash post-mortem

MySQL crashed on me this morning. With the exception of the standard MySQL included databases everything I use is InnoDB. I attempted to restart the MySQL daemon but it failed twice. I then ...
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MySQL import file with no column delimiter

Is there a way to use the mysqlimport command on a file that has no column delimiters? I would like to import the ctl file used with the sqlloader for Oracle
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Does TRANSACTION/COMMIT/ROLLBACK only work on certain MySQL engines such as InnoDB?

Are transaction functions only relevant for particular database engines on MySQL, or are transactions supported under all MySQL engines, including MyISAM and InnoDB? someone says here that ...
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How to profile individual queries using PERFORMANCE_SCHEMA

I've been looking at SHOW PROFILES, which seems ideal for what I am doing. However, I've noticed a warning that SHOW PROFILES is being deprecated and that PERFORMANCE_SCHEMA should be used instead. ...
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mysql 5.5 corrupt - missing temporary table

One of our mysql instances crashed and failed to start: 120422 10:04:13 InnoDB: Error: trying to open a table, but could not InnoDB: open the tablespace file './databasename/#sql-29f6_45.ibd'! ...
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MySql server answer #2002 [closed]

Since this morning, phpmyadmin is giving me the error message #2002 the server doesn't answer (or the connection to local Mysql is not well configured) and a message about control-use. I'm ...
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MySQL Master-Slave Replication Cross Database

I am setting up Replication for cross Database as i have set 2 variables in Slave' s my.cnf as replicate-do-db=database_name and Replicate-wild-do-table=database_name.% ,But i am not able to get ...
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Move databases on same Mac

I have just updated my MacBook to Mountain Lion. Since then, my MAMP installation does not work properly so I decided to use the build httpd/php stuff. For this, I have additionally installed a new ...
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innodb_flush_method=O_DIRECT vs O_DSYNC performance impact on ext3 with LVM disk partition

In one of my production environment, we have two instances running on a RedHat cluster, with one production instance associated with the cluster. We have 125G main memory with 24G InnoDB buffer pool ...
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When to switch from MyISAM to InnoDB?

We have a MySQL 5.0 server running all tables as MyISAM. We have two slaves that, in the last month, we have upgraded to MySQL 5.5. Their tables are also still MyISAM. My original plan was to upgrade ...

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