MySQL : Open-Source, Relational Database Management System

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InnoDB Failure of some kind

I have MySQL 5.5 installed. I tried to install Joolma but it failed. I went into their sql and replace EGNINE=InnoDB with MyISAM and the install worked. InnoDB is listed under SHOW ENGINES; Any idea ...
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Creating database/tables in SequelPro (or MySQL) from External FTP Server

I just started getting a backup file (*.7z) from the folks that run our database once a week. They're sending it to me through an FTP server (I use FileZilla) -- but the file is pretty huge: 5.8 ...
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Am I overengineering MySQL? [duplicate]

On my project, I have to make difference between registered users, and simple visitors. Both of them can set their own properites, specified in accounts and visitors table. I identify them by cookie, ...
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Am I overengineering MySQL?

On my project, I have to make difference between registered users, and simple visitors. Both of them can set their own properites, specified in accounts and visitors table. I identify them by cookie, ...
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MySQL is running but not working

In an attempt to tune MySQL to make it work with a recent installation of Drupal I had to modify the MySQL settings on my server. After modifying the configuration file for MySQL (/etc/my.cnf) MySQL ...
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Repair with 1 thread

Why would MySQL be using Repair with 1 thread to rebuild the indexes on a table (1 primary key, 2 billion rows) when I have myisam_repair_threads set to 4?
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developing procedure in sql for global use

what type of complex procedure can i develop in SQL which will make others work easy as well , like in Java , i had developed a program for FTP so that anyone can import this program and can use it ...
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Dealing with empty strings while loading a table from a CSV

I am trying to load a CSV file into a table. The CSV file contains some empty strings for example: 1,2,,4 I want to load the empty field as null. One way I know is to use \N i.e: 1,2,\N,4 but it ...
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Large INSERTs performance optimization

I have 15 Amazon AWS EC2 t1.micro instances which simultaneously populate Amazon RDS MySQL d2.m2.xlarge database with data using large INSERTs (40000 rows in query). The queries are send ...
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How to perform ETL from RDBMS to Neo4j

I have a mature 50+ tables web application based on mySQL. In order to do some advanced data mining I want to use Neo4j and the goodnes of cypher. However I'm having a hard time migrating my data from ...
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Ubnutu/MySQL - Error “Unable to locate package innotop”

I am using Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS, with MySQL 5.5.29. Im trying to install innotop for database monitoring, but getting an error "Unable to locate package innotop" root@server1:~# apt-get install ...
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Why is MySQL order by performance poor within a single partition of a partitioned table?

I have to store some sequence numbered data in MySQL. I have about 300,000 data items per day for about a 10 year span. Let's say the table structure is just sequence number (a big int) and data (a ...
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MySQL poor order by performance on partitioned table [duplicate]

I have to store some sequence numbered data in MySQL. I have about 300,000 data items per day for about a 10 year span. Let's say the table structure is just sequence number (a big int) and data (a ...
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Is it okay to rename the MySQL data files (FRM) manually?

Like everyone, I realized the case sensitivity issues in MySQL of late. I wanted to convert my upper case table names to lower case using this solution but I forgot to do Step 1 and completed the ...
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Drop database locked the server

I tried to drop one of the databases on the server. That locked the entire server up so I stopped the mysql process via the console. I restarted the server, started mysql and now it seems hanged on: ...
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mysql replication successful but slave not replicating

I have created a mysql master-slave configuration and things look fine . the " show master status;" on slave doesnt show any error . this is the output Slave_IO_State: Waiting for master to send ...
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How to ensure that date-range queries involving multiple time zones are sargable

I am building a web analytics application for search engine traffic only. You can see some screenshots here: http://myhappyanalytics.com/ It works similar to Google Analytics but it only saves and ...
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passing --single-transaction in mysqldump command line tool

I'm using MySQL GUI tool to backup my innodb database and I use the option '--single-transaction' to get a consistent copy as backup. I have however, noticed that if I backup using command line ...
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Order of where clauses in MySQL

If I have a MySQL table which has content from the last 3 months I actually do the following: SELECT SQL_BUFFER_RESULT SQL_CACHE count(id) cnt FROM `mDelivered` where _campaign = 2 and `session` = ...
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open source ETL tool works with cloud [closed]

I am trying to be familiar with ETL tool. I will use ETL tool to build database on the cloud. For this reason, are there ETL open source projects which have ability to build database on cloud ? ( all ...
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How to “swap” out production tables in MySql

I have a MySQL table that holds a few thousand records which go out of date very quickly. A few times a day we run a slow process which needs to pull data from multiple sources and re-populate the ...
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'Offline' MySQL backup - server not starting

The MySQL server is no longer starting because the partition is too full. The issue seems to be ibdata (40GB). I wanted to follow these instructions (at 'InnoDB Infrastructure Cleanup') Now I already ...
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In place upgrade from MySQL 5.5 to 5.6.11 removes all users from user table

On Windows, I upgraded from 5.1 to 5.5 no problem. Copied my 5.1 data folder into my 5.5 instance Started mysqld skipping grants Ran mysql_upgrade All good, but going from 5.5 to 5.6: Copied ...
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Using a keywords table with multiple other tables

Using MySQL I need help determining how to model a Keywords table to three different tables (Products, Certifications, and Exams) - I have included my model which is using what I refer to as ...
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MySQL DB Design

I am designing a db for a Social Network type website where users enter lot of information varying from family member details, education, employment, personal favorite such as TV, movie, music, food, ...
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How to add additional tables/fields into a query with multiple inner joins?

Given this query (many thanks to RolandoMySQLDBA from question Select records that do not have associations outside a certain list), how do I add other fields from other tables into my result? SELECT ...
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Select records that do not have associations outside a certain list

I have a mySQL table of nodes and each node can be associated with many categories. I have a list of category ids that are acceptable (498, 499). I want to select only nodes who do not have ...
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MySQL : How to get rows where count() is null?

This is my SQL request : SELECT COUNT( b0_.id ) AS sclr0, d1_.codeLieu AS codeLieu1, d1_.nomLieu AS nomLieu2, d1_.lngLieu AS lngLieu3, d1_.latLieu AS latLieu4, m2_.libelleMention AS libelleMention5, ...
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MySQL Synchronise Data From One DB Table To Another & Vice-Versa Using Triggers

We are migrating from one database structure to another - very slowly. The system is MySQL. There are two databases. For example's sake, we will call the databases old_db and new_db. Both databases ...
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Are there any disadvantages to partitioning on financial year?

Our current set up has one table per financial year (May 1- April 30). Each table has approx 1.5 million rows. We have about 8 years of data, and will obviously be adding each year. The majority of ...
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Optimising table efficiency format integers only

I currently have a table with 1,136,053 rows and 5 columns in a MySQL table. They are all integer values and appear to be slowing down as I am increasing the rows. I have indexed each of the ...
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SQL Server-MySQL master-master replication

We are looking into setting up a master-master replicated MSSQL database and I am interested to hear of any potential pitfalls that we may run into along the way and generally any advice that you ...
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Should store procedure cached in Mysql

Should store procedure cached in Mysql? If yes, How long it is stay in cache? In my case, When I call one store procedure first time, It is giving me result in 1sec, after that it gives me result in ...
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Database Design [closed]

I have a requirement like creation of database design for examination of school student. There we have different types of exams like quarterly exam, half yearly exam and the final exam. For each class ...
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How to use and optimize subquery on 100 million rows

What I'm trying to do is running a job on more than 100 million domains which haven't processed before. I have two tables, "domain" and "domain_setting", on every batch (10.000 domains per batch) I'm ...
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Configuring MySQL (my.cnf) for MyISAM and InnoDB

I want to convert some (not all) the MyISAM tables to InnoDB. Here is my current my.cnf: pastebin.com/FW8YXtLQ What would be the best configuration? (need to add InnoDB settings, byecause there are ...
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MySQL - how can I make a select statement get blocked?

Hello I am trying to intentionally make a SQL select statement get blocked by another simple SQL delete or update statement, for the purpose of learning. I prefer only InnoDB tables. To prepare the ...
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MySQL Slow query joining on subqueries with max

I'm creating a report based on user input (i.e. a search tool) that grabs data from eight tables and will output them to the screen. Here are the create table statements. I'm very aware of how badly ...
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Load different date formats in mysql

I have a date field in my datafile which I am trying to load in MySQL, but the date field is in dd-mon-yy format and MySQL only understands YYYY-MM-DD. Is there a way by which I can load DD-MON-YY ...
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Should I increase max_connections in AWS RDS t1-micro for MySQL?

I have an AWS RDS t1-micro running MySQL 5.5. It gives me too many connections error. I checked and it allows 34 maximum connections concurrently. What I have read is that i can increase this max ...
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Why does adding LIMIT to my query make it crawl?

Simple query: select sum(score) total,name,gender,dob,country from users join scores on users.id = scores.user_id where date between '2012-01-01' and '2012-01-31 23:59:59' group by scores.user_id ...
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Foreign key with multiple references

I have the following three tables in mysql database named "THE_COLLEGE" mysql> desc students; +----------+-------------+------+-----+---------+-------+ | Field | Type | Null | Key | ...
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Req: Typical location of mysql query cache

My MVC framework (CodeIgniter) wants to know where my database (mysql 5.5) writes its query cache. My Ubuntu installation is unexceptional. Would that be /var/lib/mysql/ or further down the chain, ...
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Query that ranks students order by marks and give the position of student even when there are students with equal marks

I need an sql that will rank students order by marks scored in a specific examtyp e.g CAT1 and give exact position even if the students have equal marks e.g in this sample data admNo 2525 and admNo ...
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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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To make a LVM backup of a MySQL database, would I have to reduce the logical volume size?

I am trying to learn how to do a Ubuntu LVM backup of a MySQL database. For this test I installed a fresh copy of Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS on a new box, along with MySQL 5.5. The box has one hard drive. ...
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MySQL: Slow INSERTs to MEMORY table

I've been trying to work this issue out, been really killing me! We've been experiencing some slow database queries for a Prestashop installation that we host, and a look into the query log revealed ...
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Is the key_buffer_size applicable to myisam tmp tables?

I have a database about 750GB in size. It's all innodb. Larger analytical queries often need to group by several columns or use distinct so it's common that MySQL will have to create tmp tables. The ...
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What is the syntax for querying a spatial column?

What is the right syntax to get all the points within the bounding box? The table consists of a lat and lng column and a spatial column "pt" generated from the lat/lng values. calculated the topleft ...
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How can I get this query to use it's index?

Queries matching this query below shows up in the slow log (with different contentVersionId & modifiedDateTime). As I don't really know what I'm doing I tried adding indexes to all columns in ...

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