29 Jan

Export MySQL database table to CSV (delimited / Excel) file

Today lets talk a little about converting a MySQL table to CSV (Excel). My friend was looking to export MySQL to Excel, I saw couple of questions for export MySQL tables to CSV on forums. Since I saw the question often, I thought of writing out all the ways I can think of for exporting Delimited (CSV / TSV / …) data from MySQL table. Pretty chewed & basic but frequent topic.

Following are the ways to export CSV data from MySQL database / table(s).

1. Using SELECT INTO … OUTFILE statement to export from MySQL to CSV

SELECT ... INTO OUTFILE writes the selected rows to a file. Column and line terminators can be specified to produce a specific output format. Just to mention, SELECT ... INTO OUTFILE is the complement of LOAD DATA INFILE, which you may use to load CSV (generally speaking delimited) files to MySQL.

Here’s a sample command to export “tablename” table of “db” database as a CSV:

SELECT * INTO OUTFILE '/csv_files/db.tablename.txt'
FIELDS TERMINATED BY ',' OPTIONALLY ENCLOSED BY '"'
LINES TERMINATED BY '\n'
FROM db.tablename;

18 Jan

A tale of Corrupt InnoDB table, MySQL crash & recovery

I’m going to narrate you a story that happened around a crashing MyQL, Corrupted InnoDB table and finally the recovery by table restore. We will see how our database administrator detected the issue and what he did to resolve it.

A day in MySQL Database Consultant’s day was taking its shape while a friend called for help.

Friend: Hey, my mysql is crashing and website isn't functioning well. Everything is down. Can you help me?

Our database admin quickly jumps in and checks for the MySQL error log.

2018-01-01T07:39:03.173398Z 0 [ERROR] InnoDB: Database page corruption on disk or a failed file read of page [page id: space=13701, page number=4603]. You may have to recover from a backup.
2018-01-01T07:39:03.173428Z 0 [Note] InnoDB: Page dump in ascii and hex (16384 bytes):
...
InnoDB: End of page dump
2018-01-01T07:39:03.265864Z 0 [Note] InnoDB: Uncompressed page, stored checksum in field1 4187651462, calculated checksums for field1: crc32 4128877936/1194051977, innodb 680941878, none 3735928559, stored checksum in field2 3735928559, calculated checksums for field2: crc32 4128877936/1194051977, innodb 1675940203, none 3735928559, page LSN 400 3284265879, low 4 bytes of LSN at page end 3284252104, page number (if stored to page already) 4603, space id (if created with >= MySQL-4.1.1 and stored already) 13701
InnoDB: Page may be an index page where index id is 33515
2018-01-01T07:39:03.265911Z 0 [Note] InnoDB: Index 33515 is `PRIMARY` in table `nitty-witty`.`flat_address`
2018-01-01T07:39:03.265919Z 0 [Note] InnoDB: It is also possible that your operating system has corrupted its own file cache and rebooting your computer removes the error. If the corrupt page is an index page. You can also try to fix the corruption by dumping, dropping, and reimporting the corrupt table. You can use CHECK TABLE to scan your table for corruption. Please refer to http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/forcing-innodb-recovery.html for information about forcing recovery.
2018-01-01T07:39:03.265944Z 0 [ERROR] [FATAL] InnoDB: Aborting because of a corrupt database page in the system tablespace. Or, there was a failure in tagging the tablespace as corrupt.
2018-01-01 07:39:03 0x7f5fa0466700 InnoDB: Assertion failure in thread 140048687589120 in file ut0ut.cc line 916
InnoDB: We intentionally generate a memory trap.
InnoDB: Submit a detailed bug report to http://bugs.mysql.com.
InnoDB: If you get repeated assertion failures or crashes, even
InnoDB: immediately after the mysqld startup, there may be
InnoDB: corruption in the InnoDB tablespace. Please refer to
InnoDB: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/forcing-innodb-recovery.html
InnoDB: about forcing recovery.
07:39:03 UTC - mysqld got signal 6 ;
This could be because you hit a bug. It is also possible that this binary
or one of the libraries it was linked against is corrupt, improperly built,
or misconfigured. This error can also be caused by malfunctioning hardware.
Attempting to collect some information that could help diagnose the problem.
As this is a crash and something is definitely wrong, the information
collection process might fail.

key_buffer_size=536870912
read_buffer_size=16777216
max_used_connections=6
max_threads=214
thread_count=6
connection_count=6
It is possible that mysqld could use up to
key_buffer_size + (read_buffer_size + sort_buffer_size)*max_threads = 7539498 K bytes of memory
Hope that's ok; if not, decrease some variables in the equation.

Thread pointer: 0x0
Attempting backtrace. You can use the following information to find out
where mysqld died. If you see no messages after this, something went
terribly wrong...

11 Apr

Reset root password on Galera Cluster (Percona or MariaDB)

We have known methods to reset MySQL root password but in this post we’ll see how that works for a Galera Cluster; may it be Percona XtraDB Cluster or MariaDB Galera cluster.

Basically a Galera Cluster is bunch of MySQL nodes working together in synchronous replication. The user credential is common to all (Ideally of-course)! Let’s see how straight forward it is to reset password on a Percona Xtradb Cluster lab.

To reset the root password on a standard MySQL instance you may choose either of init-file or skip-grant-tables way. Read More →

02 Mar

MySQL to Galera Cluster Migration, Deadlock, Back to basics

This post is a lab experiment learning from migration to the Percona Xtradb Cluster (Galera) and a very unexpected DEADLOCK scenario which took me back to basics.

(root@localhost) [test]>insert into app values (1);
ERROR 1213 (40001): Deadlock found when trying to get lock; try restarting transaction

Little background:

We needed to work on migrating the standard MySQL replication to a Galera (Percona Xtradb Cluster).

Previous configuration being one Master with two slaves detailed as follows:
server-1: MySQL community 5.6 serving as Master
server-2: MySQL community 5.6 serving as Slave
server-3: MySQL community 5.6 serving as Slave

We wanted to migrate above MySQL standard replication setup to Percona Xtradb Cluster (PXC 5.6) as following 3 nodes:
galera-1
galera-2
galera-3

13 Jun

Restoring MySQL Database from xtrabackup – facepalm moments

In this post we’ll see some facepalm moments during MySQL database restore from Percona Xtrabackup. I think: “To mistake is Homo-sapiens, to learn from them is Homo-sapiens-sapiens.”

A typical way to restore MySQL backup from Xtrabackup involves following steps:

– Ship or stream backup to destination.
– Perform extraction of the compressed database backup.
– Perform apply-log step to prepare the backup.
– Bring up MySQL.
– Configure replication (if that’s required).

We have a lot of documentation & blogs explaining that, but let’s see how our MySQL DBA enjoyed the facepalm moments.

1) A quick MySQL backup restore.

Scenario: Our DBA received an urgent request, need to