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Three ways to recover a root user password: The order of solutions here under gets more creative on the way down :) 1. obviously, before starting messing around check my.cnf or scripts for passwords entries, then try home directories for password files 2. secondly – can you restart mysql? if yes, restart with –skip-grant-tables, log [...]

mysqldump each object separately

Posted: 12th August 2010 by Darren Cassar in Linux, Mac OS, MySQL, OS, Solaris
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As a continuation to a previous blog post last week and inspired by Kedar I have created a small script to export tables, stored procedures, functions and views into their respective file. It works for multiple databases where you can specify a list of databases too and although things like events, triggers and such are [...]

This is a simple mysql circular replication implementation on a single machine (just a proof of concept) which can easily be done on a broader scale. Just be aware of the cons of circular replication which mainly gets down to: once a node freaks out or stops for one reason or the other, it’s a [...]

Installing MySQL is quite an easy thing to do, especially when done using pkgs, dmgs or exes. It gets just a tad more time consuming and brain intensive when installing a .tar.gz binary package. It is when you’re compiling MySQL source directly that you’ll need some planning and playing, but the latter is only done [...]