I need help from my fellow mysql users.  I know some of the people who read this are alot better then me with mysql so hopefully you can help
So today we decided that we are going to migrate one of our master database servers to new hardware.  Since we got the hardware this [...]

Before we go into how to set up master-slave replication in MySQL, let us talk about some of the reasons I have set up master-slave replication using MySQL.
1) Offload some of the queries from one server to another and spread the load: One of the biggest advantages to have master-slave set [...]

After I wrote the post: How do I dump all tables in a database into separate files? I got emails from couple people asking how to import the individual table files back in to MySQL. First way to import each sql file created by the post is to import each file individually by [...]

There have been numerous occasions where I needed to make backups of individual tables from selected database. Usually I can achieve this by typing:
mysqldump database_name table1 > table1.sql
mysqldump database_name table2 > table2.sql

This could be very painful if you have 10’s or 100’s of tables. Until today, I never ran into a situation where I [...]

One of the mysql database servers I manage started to have issues with doing backups yesterday. mysqldump was running but nothing was happening on the backup side. I started to investigate to see why our full backups were failing. I opened up the mysql error log file (mine is at: /usr/local/mysql/var/hostname.err) [...]