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MySQL dropping records, reverting?
I'm running Unix/Apache/PHP4/Mysql 3.23.41 I have one particular table that keeps reverting back to an old version, it appears, losing more recent data as it does so. When I went to sleep last night, it had 215 Buyers in the table, when I woke up I had 70, and these were older records. I had... -
MySQL Data-Backups
Several ways. You can copy the database or individual tables to another named yourname-backup or whatever. This is the easiest. You can do a dump into an sql series of statements - see mysqldump You can extract the data into a text file and load it in later. Select INTO OUTFILE is what you... -
mysql.sock was deleted, how do I get it back?
kill any mysql processes, than restart with the safe_mysqld command. On my UNIX system, ps will show the processes I have to execute safe_mysqld from the directory above, by going ./bin/safe_mysqld -
Converting to datetime format
I have MySQL 3.23 db with columns in which unix timestamp is stored. I want to convert these columns to datetime format (for human readability reasons). How do I write the update call? startstamp is the column with the UNIX timestamp I made an extra column startdtg to hold the result, and then...
