Posted by copilas12
Hello. To dump a query to csv use this:
mysql –database=database –execute=”select a from b where a>1;” | sed ’s/\t/”,”/g;s/^/”/;s/$/”/;s/\n//g’ > filename.csv
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- October 3rd
- Filed under: Tips
Posted by copilas12
Hello. I had a trouble some time ago: i wanted to dump a large table (38 million rows, 5G size) without locking the table because the website can’t go down. So, here is the mysqldump command:
mysqldump –skip-add-locks –skip-lock-tables database > database.sql
or for just a table:
mysqldump –skip-add-locks –skip-lock-tables database table > database.table.sql
Hope this help.
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- October 3rd
- Filed under: Tips
Posted by yolau
MySQL can sometimes create big problems on a server when you have users abusing it.
This article will teach you how to correctly identify the queries that are creating a problem for your server.
MySQL can log those queries that are taking longer then X seconds but this future is not turned on by default.
Here’s how you [...]
Posted by yolau
Although you can do a database import and/or export from phpMyAdmin there is a size limitation (defined in my.cnf max_allowed_packet) when you do an import, so the only solution is to import it from shell.
This article will show you how simple it is to do it.
Importing a mysql database
Login to your server as root or [...]
Posted by yolau
Tuning the performance of MySQL can be a really hard job to do.
There are many thinks to consider and no two servers are identical so there is no universal solution.
Tuning Primer is a script that will help you tune your mysql installation by providing very healthy recommendations based on past mysql records.
For the script to [...]
Posted by yolau
What is mytop?
mytop is a console-based (non-gui) tool for monitoring the threads and overall performance of a MySQL 3.22.x, 3.23.x, and 4.x server. It runs on most Unix systems (including Mac OS X) which have Perl, DBI, and Term::ReadKey installed.
You will find more details on the homepage at http://jeremy.zawodny.com/mysql/mytop/
How to install
Download mytop
wget http://jeremy.zawodny.com/mysql/mytop/mytop-1.6.tar.gz
Extract and change [...]