RE: Some way/tool to do this with database scripts backups

2008-04-05 Thread Martijn van den Burg
Hi, > if i have for example > a simple table call person > > with 'id' and 'name' how columns > > i can do a backup and get some file (A.sql) > with all the inserts statements > > here, all fine > > but > how i can do this? Have a look at the 'mysqldump' command line utility. It goes somethin

Killing resource hogs - automatically

2008-01-23 Thread Martijn van den Burg
teractive_timeout' can be used. Lowering max_join_size could be an option too (it's currently 100,000,000), but I don't want to break people's existing apps that may rely on this hight join size. Thanks, -- Martijn van den Burg ASML ITM&S MySQL/TIBCO Support -- T

RE: Backing up via slave

2008-01-23 Thread Martijn van den Burg
[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2008 14:06 PM > To: Martijn van den Burg > Cc: Martin Goldman; mysql@lists.mysql.com > Subject: Re: Backing up via slave > > Hi Martijn, > Master will not have any information of SLAVE how r u doing > this in you second s

RE: Backing up via slave

2008-01-02 Thread Martijn van den Burg
Hi Martin, > Hi folks, > > I have two MySQL servers running in a master-slave > configuration, and I want to set up a process for backing up > our application's data in which backups are sent to a server > at another location. Ideally, I'd like to do a full backup > once a week, and then incr

RE: How to set 'sql_warnings' in the config file

2007-12-20 Thread Martijn van den Burg
Of Baron Schwartz > Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2007 15:50 PM > To: Martijn van den Burg > Cc: mysql@lists.mysql.com > Subject: Re: How to set 'sql_warnings' in the config file > > That is not a mysqld option, it's a session variable: > > mysql> select @@

How to set 'sql_warnings' in the config file

2007-12-20 Thread Martijn van den Burg
95, could that be related? Regards, Martijn van den Burg -- The information contained in this communication and any attachments is confidential and may be privileged, and is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited.

Any issues migrating Solaris -> Linux?

2007-04-26 Thread Martijn van den Burg
Dear list, My company wants to migrate MySQL 5.0.18 from SPARC/Solaris 8 to Intel/RedHat Enterprise Linux 4 update 4. Are there any incompatibilities or snags to be expected (expect from the endian issue, which will be solved by exporting/importing the data)? Thank you for your time, Martijn

RE: Key buffer partially unused - why

2007-02-28 Thread Martijn van den Burg
> > Hi, > > > > I have allocated 500MB to key_buffer_size, but only 324MB is in use > > (64%). > > > > Am I right to assume that this can mean one of the > following: (1) all > > indexes have already been cached and together they are just 324 MB, > Do "find /var/lib/mysql -name "*.MYI" -ls" (if

Migration from SPARC/Solaris to AMD x86

2007-02-28 Thread Martijn van den Burg
Hi list, As part of a server virtualization project, we are going to migrate MySQL from SPARC/Solaris 8 to AMD/x86 Solaris 10. I seem to remember that it is possible to: - stop the SPARC server - move the mount point of the MySQL data directory to the Solaris/x86 server - start the AMD x86 serve

Key buffer partially unused - why

2007-02-20 Thread Martijn van den Burg
Hi, I have allocated 500MB to key_buffer_size, but only 324MB is in use (64%). Am I right to assume that this can mean one of the following: (1) all indexes have already been cached and together they are just 324 MB, (2) there is a limiting variable (open_files, inodb_open_files, for example) tha

RE: £ (Great Britain Pound) breaks MySQL insert an d update - disastrous overwrite

2006-10-20 Thread Martijn van den Burg
Paul, > I have a Java Struts application running on Tomcat 5. I have > mysql 5 installed on redhat EL 3. When a user enters text > with a £ sign (Great Britain Pound) in the browser and clicks > enter, any insert or update statement apparently gets > truncated in mysql. The insert reliably

Re: Momentary huge replication lag

2006-05-19 Thread Martijn van den Burg
On Friday 19 May 2006 17:49, sheeri kritzer wrote: > I suggest writing a very simple shell script to run "SHOW SLAVE > STATUS" and output it to a file every 15 seconds, to verify your > script is working. I have never seen MySQL give a bad lag time for > replication -- it's always been accurate fo

Re: Momentary huge replication lag

2006-05-19 Thread Martijn van den Burg
> That is weird. If it only lasts a couple of seconds, how are you > monitoring it to find out what the lag time is? I've written a replication monitor script using Perl::POE, which checks replication lag every 15 seconds or so (can't check the exact interval now - weekend has begun here). --

Re: Momentary huge replication lag

2006-05-19 Thread Martijn van den Burg
just some updates on a single database. No flushing of logs... The strange thing is that the condition of extremely high lag lasts only a couple of seconds, and then tapers back very quickly to zero. Martijn > On 5/19/06, Martijn van den Burg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > &g

Momentary huge replication lag

2006-05-19 Thread Martijn van den Burg
Hi, Recently I created a new replication set up with 5.0.18-standard-log on Solaris 8 (one master, one slave). Replication is running, but periodically (after a bunch of INSERT/UPDATE statements) there is a very large replication lag, with Seconds_Behind_Master values of 21 and more. This

Re: Error reading binlog - recoverable?

2006-02-08 Thread Martijn van den Burg
error Is there anything else I can try? Martijn > Datum: 08/02/06 01:52 PM > Van: "Martijn van den Burg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Aan: mysql@lists.mysql.com > CC: "Gleb Paharenko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Onderwerp : Re: Error reading binlog - recoverab

Re: Error reading binlog - recoverable?

2006-02-08 Thread Martijn van den Burg
ysql.com/doc/internals/en/replication-binary-log.html > > Check if the problem still exists with mysqlbinlog from the fresh MySQL > shipment. The --hexdump option for mysqlbinlog can be helpful for > debugging purposes. See: > http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/mysqlbinlo

Error reading binlog - recoverable?

2006-02-08 Thread Martijn van den Burg
Hi, MySQL 4.1.10-log, Solaris Replication stopped with an error that closely resembles bug #8215. When examining the binlog with mysqlbinlog, it stops before reaching the end of the binlog, with the error ERROR: Error in Log_event::read_log_event(): 'Event too big', data_len: 1635131433, eve

RE: sql command for exporting database

2006-01-13 Thread Martijn van den Burg
Tony, > Hi Is there any sql commands for dumping/exporing the content > of a database to a file ?? Thanks. Tony. SELECT ... INTO OUTFILE (http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/select.html), but that doesn't dump the entire database. From the commandline (i.e. it's not an SQL statement) you can

RE: Replication: why does this query fail on the slave?

2005-12-20 Thread Martijn van den Burg
Hi, Disregard my previous post. It seems the developer is doing stuff that creates duplicate key errors, which seem to propagate to the slave, in stead of being ignored. -- Martijn > -Original Message- > From: Martijn van den Burg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: d

Replication: why does this query fail on the slave?

2005-12-20 Thread Martijn van den Burg
Dear list, Replication (between two 4.1.10 servers, Solaris) fails on the following query with a 1064 error (parse error), but there are no reserved words in it, and when I run the query from the command line on the master no errors occur and the table is created. (binlog) /*!40019 SET @@session

Replication slave halts on SQL error - how to fix

2005-12-14 Thread Martijn van den Burg
Hi, Apologies for not posting this in the 'replication' list, but that seems not very active... I have setup replication between two 4.1.10 databases, and I noticed that the SLAVE THREAD had stopped because of an SQL error. The errorlog says: "Fix the problem and restart the slave SQL thread". B

Interesting: maximum size of status variable

2005-10-28 Thread Martijn van den Burg
Greetings, I've been keeping track of Bytes_sent and Bytes_received for a while in the fashion of 'mysqlreport': divide those values over Uptime in order to obtain a data rate (bytes/sec). The resulting graphs look like this: | | | /| /| |/ |/ | | / | / | / | / | /|

RE: InnoDB error "unable to create temporary file"

2005-10-05 Thread Martijn van den Burg
Hi Joerg et all, [snip] > You said this is Solaris. > > AFAIK, Solaris uses the same disk area for "/tmp" and paging, so the > available space for files in "/tmp" may vary even without files being > manipulated. > > I propose you set TMPDIR to point to some other disk area. We're on Solaris,

Re: Does MySQL open the .frm file when opening a table?

2005-10-03 Thread Martijn van den Burg
Hi, Thanks for your detailed reply. Kind regards, Martijn On Sunday 02 October 2005 21:18, Gleb Paharenko wrote: > Hello. > > > For InnoDB I'm not sure, so I don't make guessings. > > I'm continuing the previous message. Here is what I've found out: > > > InnoDB has its own open file statist

Re: InnoDB error "unable to create temporary file"

2005-09-29 Thread Martijn van den Burg
Hi Jörg, On Thursday 29 September 2005 12:09, you wrote: > Hi Martijn, all! > > Martijn van den Burg wrote (reordered) > > > On Wednesday 28 September 2005 20:10, Gleb Paharenko wrote: > >>Martijn van den Burg wrote: > >>>Hi list, > >>> > >

Re: InnoDB error "unable to create temporary file"

2005-09-28 Thread Martijn van den Burg
gt;http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/temporary-files.html > > Martijn van den Burg wrote: > > Hi list, > > > > After the most recent reboot (which we used to increase the > > ulimit/open_files_limit on our Solaris 8 machine running 4.1.10-log), > > the follow

Re: Where to store comments?

2005-09-28 Thread Martijn van den Burg
On Wednesday 28 September 2005 20:47, Siegfried Heintze wrote: > Other databases allow one to store comments describing each field in a > table definition. These are stored in the database. In addition, one can > store comments about the table. Examples include MS SQL Server and MS > Access. > > Do

Re: varchar vs char speed improvement

2005-09-28 Thread Martijn van den Burg
On Tuesday 27 September 2005 11:59, Pooly wrote: > 2005/9/27, Ow Mun Heng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Is there any doc looking at benchmarks of a database which is populated > > entirely with fixed length char compared to variable character lengths? > > > > I know using char is preferred over varchar

InnoDB error "unable to create temporary file"

2005-09-27 Thread Martijn van den Burg
Hi list, After the most recent reboot (which we used to increase the ulimit/open_files_limit on our Solaris 8 machine running 4.1.10-log), the following message has started to appear in the errorlog: InnoDB: Error: unable to create temporary file; errno: 2 I have searched google and the lists

Re: myhostname-bin.000nn @ /usr/local/mysql/var

2005-09-25 Thread Martijn van den Burg
Hi Miguel, Those files are the binary logs that MySQL keeps of its doings. You can find more information here: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/binary-log.html. Depending on the number of tables and the number of data-altering statements, these logs may become very big very quickly. Kind reg

Does MySQL open the .frm file when opening a table?

2005-09-17 Thread Martijn van den Burg
Hi list, If MySQL opens a table, does it also need open the corresponding table format file? If it does, does it increment open_files? In other words: does opening a MyISAM table take three file handles, and opening a InnoDB table two (assuming the tablespace file isn't opened yet)? Kind rega

Many Key_blocks_unused - why?

2005-09-15 Thread Martijn van den Burg
Hi list, I have noticed that the key buffer usage (defined in MySQL Administrator as Key_blocks_used *key_cache_block_size) always stays the same, and that I have a large amount of Key_blocks_unused, which seems to me there's a potential performance gain somewhere: > show variables like 'key%';

RE: MySQL db size using "show table status"

2005-09-12 Thread Martijn van den Burg
> > Qus 2. Is there any other way to compute the db size (other > than disk > > quota). > > > > du -s mysql_data_directory If you want to know the size of a /single/ database (i.e. schema) then this method works if there's just one database in the mysql_data_directory. If there are multiple da

RE: Phantom UDP traffic kills performance

2005-08-19 Thread Martijn van den Burg
Hi Mark, Thanks for your reply. > MySQL itself doesn't generate UDP traffic (the protocol runs > over TCP/IP). However, MySQL relies on DNS unless you've specified > - --skip-name-resolve when you started the server. DNS > travels over UDP. I did not specify --skip-name-resolve. > You also m

Phantom UDP traffic kills performance

2005-08-19 Thread Martijn van den Burg
Hi, While I was on holiday our production MySQL 4.1.10 (Solaris 8) had to be restarted due to a filesystem upgrade (NetApp). After the restart, when I came back from my holiday, I noticed that INSERT performance has dropped dramatically and that the machine generates a lot more UDP traffic seeming

RE: repair table (error 27)

2005-07-19 Thread Martijn van den Burg
Dirk, Some suggestions. 1. can you still dump the table using mysqldump? Then you can import it again (with the mysql commandline client), creating a 'fresh' table. 2. make a backup of the index file (.MYI), then throw it away. MySQL will create a new index for you. HTH, Martijn > -Ori

RE: Connections and open files weirdness?

2005-07-07 Thread Martijn van den Burg
n_files increase? Kind regards, Martijn > > > "Martijn van den Burg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm running out of resources even though I think I shouldn't. > > > > The open_files_limit=3D256, max_connections=3D24

Connections and open files weirdness?

2005-07-07 Thread Martijn van den Burg
Hi, I'm running out of resources even though I think I shouldn't. The open_files_limit=256, max_connections=246, and table_cache=64 and I'm trying to actively create 'Too many open file errors' with this configuration, to be able to quantify the effect of raising the filesystem's ulimit, and the

RE: load data infile

2005-07-01 Thread Martijn van den Burg
Hi, > I have a file where the data looks like this: > > "1","23","345","45"; > "34","4","444","1er"; > > I am then trying to load that data using the load data local > infile and this statement: > > Load data local infile '/httpd/htdocs/sql/loader.sql' into > table vehicles fields terminate

RE: Grant Syntax Error.?

2005-06-30 Thread Martijn van den Burg
Hi, > trying to create a new user with the below, > > GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *samhain* TO 'samhain'@'localhost' > IDENTIFIED BY 'passwd' WITH GRANT OPTION; That should be 'samhain.*', not '*samhain*'. Regards, Martijn -- The information contained in this communication and any attachments

RE: Increasing max_connections and table_cache on Solaris 8

2005-06-27 Thread Martijn van den Burg
e: > http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/not-enough-file-handles.html > > > > "Martijn van den Burg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > This applies to 4.1.10 on Solaris 8, with 1 GB of RAM.=20 > > > > Our internal cus

Increasing max_connections and table_cache on Solaris 8

2005-06-22 Thread Martijn van den Burg
Hi, This applies to 4.1.10 on Solaris 8, with 1 GB of RAM. Our internal customer wants to be able to make 1000 concurrent connections to our database, with a mix of MyISAM and InnoDB tables, but according to http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/table-cache.html and an online Solaris reference (http

RE: Mysql overall stability

2005-06-22 Thread Martijn van den Burg
Stephane, > I've was wondering if anyone is using MySql as their main ERP > production database, if so how stable and reliable is it? SAP and MySQL have teamed up to certify (part of?) SAP's R/3 ERP system on MaxDB. Check: http://searchsap.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid21_gci967139

RE: FLUSH TABLES /w READ LOCK vs. GLOBAL READ_ONLY in making backups

2005-06-20 Thread Martijn van den Burg
> to flush tables, you're right : > > flush table TOTO <= flushes only toto > flush table TOTO,TITI<= flushes only toto and titi > flush tables <= flushes ALL OK, that's good news. > Have'nt you thought to a master-slave replication and

FLUSH TABLES /w READ LOCK vs. GLOBAL READ_ONLY in making backups

2005-06-20 Thread Martijn van den Burg
27; in stead of locking individual tables. What would be the impact on queries that are being executed at the moment I set the lock? Kind regards, -- Martijn van den Burg ASML ITM&S Application Support / Webcenter -- The information contained in this communication and any attachments