One of our senior MySQL DBAs, Mike Hamrick, wasn’t feeling well this week and so stayed home from the office. Instead of actually resting, produced this video about reading top output! I leave it to you all to watch and learn from our local tool tip pro. And, feel better Mike! Related posts:Introducing the Bluegecko MySQL Training … [Read more...]
Recovering a Schema From InnoDB .frm Files
Sometimes you find yourself in a bad situation where your only hope of recovering your InnoDB data lies in a handful of .frm and .ibd data files that were heretofore part of a working MySQL installation. It could be the case that someone thought backing up InnoDB tables was simply a matter of of copying the .ibd and .frm files somewhere safe. … [Read more...]