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How can Innodb ibdata1 file grows by 5X even with innodb_file_per_table set?

I have innodb_file_per_table set and just today my ibdata1 file jumped from 59M to 323M after I made several changes to an 800M table to reduce it to about 600M. That particular table's .ibd file was ...
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MySQL Dump configuration file

I modified th my.cnf file, so that the innodb_data_file_path points somewhere else from the default path. But the mysqldump command seems like trying to dump from the default path. I found that if i ...
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Optimize UNION query in MYSQL

I have a problem with a UNION query in MySQL. We have 10 millions players on our website and we would like to select players with a multi-criterias system. For exemple, selecting US people, men, > 35 ...
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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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Is there slowdown inserting into an InnoDB table that has no index set?

I have an old application with lots of InnoDB tables, that have no indexes at all, not even a primary ID or such. Those tables only contain a few thousand rows. Would it be faster to INSERT data ...
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How can I set a default session sql_mode for a given user?

I want to have a default session sql_mode that is different from the global sql_mode. I can set it manually, but I'd like to do it automatically. I thought I could add it to .my.cnf, but that ...
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TRUNCATE TABLE statement sometimes hangs

Why does the TRUNCATE TABLE statement hang sometimes? What are the reasons for this type of issue? I am migrating from MySQL to MariaDB. This problem doesn't happen with MySQL, only with MariaDB. ...
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MySQL: how to restore table stored in a .frm and a .ibd file?

I have previously saved a copy of /var/lib/mysql/ddms directory ("ddms" is the schema name). Now I installed a new MySQL on a freshly installed Ubuntu 10.04.3 LTS by running apt-get install ...
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MySql is not optimizing the query properly

I have a table structure as follows : CREATE TABLE `sale_product_inventories` ( `id` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, `sale_id` int(11) NOT NULL, `product_id` int(11) NOT NULL, `size` ...
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Drop tables where the last update is over 1 week ago

I can see in PMA that it stores information for every table. I was wondering if there was an SQL query to drop any table in the database that have a last update time of more than 1 week ago?
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MySQL - run SELECT statement on another server without defining the table structure

In MySQL I can query information on another server using federated tables, as long as I've defined the same table structure locally. In MS SQL Server, however, I can run any SQL statement against a ...
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Is MariaDB a suitable drop in replacement for MySQL on a standard LAMP stack?

I've been wondering lately what (if any) are the improvements available in MariaDB over 'conventional' MySQL? I understand that where platform interoperability and/or backwards compatibility may be ...
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Where condition execution sequence in MySQL [duplicate]

I am using MySQL 5.0.88. I have a query like select DISTINCT party.­id FROM party­ LEFT join party_­identifier AS pi ON pi.­party_­id = party.­id­ WHERE ­(pi.­source_­note=? AND first_­name LIKE ? OR ...
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Errors while creating multiple mysql-5.5 instances

I have installed 3rd mysql instance on my testing server. 2 instances already running without any issues. When I installed 3rd instance by mysql-5.5.30 zip source, it installed successfully but when ...
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Where condition execution sequence in MySQL

I am using MySQL 5.0.88. I have a query like: select DISTINCT party.­id FROM party­ LEFT join party_­identifier AS pi ON pi.­party_­id = party.­id­ WHERE ­(pi.­source_­note=? AND ...
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Performance issues with query of many joins on MySQL server

We have serious performance issues with a query joining a lookup table (stores key values pairs) around 20 times. The lookup table contains around 100.000 entries. SELECT DISTINCT ...
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“Lost connection to MySQL server during query” error

I have MySQL 5.5.20 and this table: mysql> desc country; +----------------+-------------+------+-----+---------+-------+ | Field | Type | Null | Key | Default | Extra | ...
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mysqlcheck: unknown variable 'max_allowed_packet=100M'

I get the following error when I try to use mysqlcheck, mysqlrepair or mysqlanalyze: mysqlcheck: unknown variable 'max_allowed_packet=100M' I am trying to find whether there are any corrupt tables ...
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How can I delete duplications with one query? [closed]

Is there any way to delete duplications with one, or only two queries? I'm not good with SQL. Now I'm trying this solution: $le = mysql_query('SELECT * FROM tbl_answers'); while($i = ...
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Replicating data from Oracle to MySQL

I work with a vendor that does data analytics, and they currently receive a replication stream from some of our databases using a product called Goldengate (which is very expensive). Goldengate has ...
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ORDER BY optimization issue

I have a query: SELECT user_details.id , user_details.first_name , user_details.last_name, user_accounts.name account_name, jtl0.account_id account_id, user_details.title , ...
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Do certain string patterns affect query performance on a VARCHAR column?

I am a beginner on MySQL Administration and performance problems. Now this is confusing me. I have a VARCHAR column identity, the string in it is consisted of a Class type and an id, like note:123, ...
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MySQL: Lock wait timeout exceeded

I have a developer that has been trying to alter a large table (~60M rows). Via LiquidBase/JDBC they're running ALTER TABLE foo DROP FOREIGN KEY fk_foo_1; Today while it was running I checked in ...
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Why would SequelPro only import 23k rows out of 130k?

I use SequelPro for mysql on a Mac OS X -- and I used the import function to upload a 130k .csv file to my database. Everything seems to work fine, then I get the message File Read Error: An error ...
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Percona xtrabackup Prepare Fails

I made a backup and according to Percona it completed successfully. Now I'm trying to prepare it and having the following issue: ./xtrabackup_55 --defaults-file="/etc/my.cnf" ...
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Why some of mysql system variables are readonly

There are almost more or less 277 mysql server system variables . In these variables some of the variables are dynamic and few are not. I don't under stand what is the reason behind read only ...
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MySQL server crashed.

Help! I managed to crash MySQL last night. I am on a Mac using the native version that came with Mountain Lion. I was upgrading from 5.5 to 5.6. I have followed instructions in this forum to delete ...
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JOIN to read first table and get possible relationship in the second table

Consider a main table as CREATE TABLE groups ( group_id int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, group_title varchar(255), PRIMARY KEY(group_id) ) ENGINE=InnoDB and a second table for relationship as ...
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MySQL version confusion

How is this possible: I installed mysql-5.6.11-osx10.7-x86.dmg which is supposed to be version Mac OS X ver. 10.7 (x86, 32-bit), DMG Archive (32 bit!) But upon SHOW VARIABLES LIKE "%version%"; I get ...
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Best strategies to have a backup of an RDS MySQL database

I have an AWS RDS MySQL database. I'm not a DBA, so my knowledge is limited. I wish to design strategies to have zero data loss in case of a failure, in terms of replication or data backup. I know ...
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Is there a way to recover this database (MySQL)

I did a "cold" (db offline, all filesystem files) backup of a MySQL db. I wrote the backup to an ISO image. Unfortunately Joliet filenames are not default. I didn't realize that until attempting to ...
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MySQL Master/Slave. Actual use of Slave Machine

We have a MySQL server running in a mobile production trailer. The trailer is out on the road for weeks at a time. We have cell internet and wifi access is nearly all of our locations. Our office ...
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Partitioning and freeing disk space

I am running MySql innodb with innodb_file_per_table. As a daily script, I would like to create a new partition for a set of tables, as well as delete yesterday's partitions. What command would need ...
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How to migrate data from SQL database to MySQL including flat files?

one of my friend has asked some asp developer to make online application where user can upload files also. jpg, doc, pdf and all these files are saved in SQL database as flat file. Now my friend asked ...
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Backup plan for MySQL NDB cluster databse not innoDB

I have a Database which will grow more than 250GB all data is in NDB engine(2 datanodes) and no other mysql engine used for data store. What are the best approaches or plans for MySQL Cluster NDB ...
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Creating a global temp table in MySQL

I am working on a MySQL stored procedure. I need to create a temp table and I want to access this temp table whenever I execute this stored procedure. I know we can't access the temp table in ...
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Linked tables versus stored procedure performance in MySQL

Suppose I have a sub-form, in datasheet view for multiple records, that gives the user full CRUD control over a particular MySQL table. (The records are filtered by the parent-form). Option 1 is to ...
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MySQL Hanging Completely when `ALTER TABLE… ENABLE KEYS`

I know very little about database administration but I have to deal with some very large tables on my site. This server has 64GB of RAM and Intel Core i7-3820 (4 x 3600 MHz). Most of everything it ...
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How to optimize a log process in MySQL?

In my project, I have about 100.000 users and can't control their behavior. Now, what I would like to do is log their activity in a certain task. Every activity, is one record which includes columns ...
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Migration of create statement from SQL Server to MySQL

I have a table that have the following table structure CREATE TABLE [dbo].[ASAT]( [ID] [bigint] IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL, [ASATID] AS ('ASAT'+right('00000000000000000000' ...
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MySQL database drop insanely slow

I just installed MySQL 5.0.45-log Source distribution on my Debian 6.0.6 server. I installed it under my user home directory like I'm used to doing. But this time the queries are extremely slow to ...
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How can I include more query in one query?

These are my tables: tbl_answers => aid qid answer uid dateposted emailnotify namedisplay status isbestanswer tbl_questions => qid question ...
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Which one to use? InnoDB Replication or MySQL Cluster?

I am building a url shortener and I use InnoDB as the storage engine for link data. I will start with a single VPS containing both application instance and MySQL database instance on the same Virtual ...
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Does MySQL reserve memory for MEMORY tables based on max_heap_table_size

Currently I have a set of large MEMORY tables, and have previously calculated how much space I believe each will require and assigned max_heap_table_size accordingly so that the sum is not greater ...
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Designing a database for a site that stores content from multiple services?

I'm building a site that implements David Allen's Getting Things Done that pulls in your email, Facebook newsfeed, tweets from those you follow on Twitter, and more services are planned. The problem ...
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Is there a good reason to store big text data outside database?

I was analyzing my MySQL database performance and found that tables containing text fields are just huge, larger than 1Gb. This data is only used when loading single record (like article or blog ...
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Would Mongo's ObjectID work well in InnoDB's clustered index?

Mongo's ObjectID is defined like this: ObjectId is a 12-byte BSON type, constructed using: a 4-byte value representing the seconds since the Unix epoch, a 3-byte machine identifier, ...
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MySQL Workbench - question about creating FK relationships

Forgive me a little new at databases and I came across something while working with Workbench that I have a question on. In a very simple testing database, with three tables: Company, Department, ...
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Properly index magento mysql tables to improve specific query performance

I am running magento community edition and its db performance is horrible. I have the following query: SELECT `width_idx`.`value`, COUNT(DISTINCT width_idx.entity_id) AS `count` FROM ...
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High Mysql Load , over 700% CPU

I had high mysql load on server linux 64 bit , 24 G.B ram , Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 950 @ 3.07GHz , Alot of quiers in sending data mode Here is mysql status ...

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