Creating scheduled backup using administrator is an easy task. Follow the GUI and you’re done. But I observed something different! MySQL Version: 5.0.83 Community MySQL Administrator: 1.2.17 Machine: Intel P4, Windows XP, Enough RAM 🙂 Logs: General, Error & irrelevant here though Slow query. Prologue: Administrator performs scheduled backup properly in normal scenario. What I […]
Monitoring a replication is an important aspect. As replication includes multiple nodes, it is essential to track activity and status across all mysql servers involved in replication. To monitor replication we know commands like: Show slave status; Show master status; Refer: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/sql-syntax-replication.html But when it comes to non-gui interface, it becomes little tedious. With some […]
This article is a brief step-by-step tutorial on the subject task which is divided into the following main parts: Installing two MySQL Server Instances Setting up master-slave replication Setting up slave-master replication Let’s begin covering those points… Installing Two MySQL Server Instances on Windows: 1. Install MySQL: Download MySQL Binaries from dev.mysql.com. Install normal MSI […]
“Show Slave Status” command has a last column “Seconds_Behind_Master”, which gives us idea about how much time slave is lagging behind master. It is an important to be considered parameter in monitoring and maintaining replication. This article explains us a way to monitor replication slave lag time. It also includes a sample batch scripts to […]
What will you do if one day some one ask you to find single string in all databases, all tables and in all columns, In MySQL Database? I just read such question and tried to find a “ready made” solution. Reusability is Key Concept 😉 !! But I ended up finding no “copy-paste” material. Some of the posts […]
In this post we will see importance of replication related variables auto_increment_increment & auto_increment_offset with respect to MySQL Master Master setup. Consider we’ve already set a master-master replication. Now create following table on Server1: `id` int(10) NOT NULL auto_increment, PRIMARY KEY (`id`) ) ENGINE=MyISAM AUTO_INCREMENT=12 DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1; The table will will get replicated on Mysql […]
Upload Image to MySQL using PHP As a new-bie to php/mysql, I tried different stuffs. So here I’m with my php code for Image Upload to MySQL. Its a quite simple code with two php files one to display and one to upload. For Image Upload code, I’ve added code download link upload-image-mysql-demo.zip at the […]
MyISAM InnoDB Default since version 3.23 Relatively newer Files storage: FRM: table definition, MYD: Actual Data MYI: Index File FRM: table definition .ibd file (concept of table space) or single huge .ibdataX No transation, Foreign key ACID Transactions, Foreign key, Rollback Low disk and memory utilisation Relatively high storage requirements (Almost 3 times disk space) […]
After reading at a lot of places for the the single repeatative question, “What engine shall I choose – MyISAM or Innodb?”, this is what I’ve got. Following are points of consideration for MyISAM – MySQL storage engine: Tables are really fast for select-heavy loads Table level locks limit their scalability for write intensive multi-user […]
The perl script is mainly created to avoid manual Mysql Server Maintenance. The script uses Perl module DBI. You need to provide access credentials and database name(optional). Regarding Analyse, Optimize and Repair you may ofcourse refer dev.mysql.com. OPTIMIZE TABLE should be used if you have deleted a large part of a table or if you […]
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