Pythian Group

A few days ago, we faced a Duplicate entry problem in the mysqld server on one of our customer’s slave after cold backup. We do regular data sync checks for all of our customer’s as daily reports and check for data discrepancies between master and slave server’s, if any got picked up by our checks to investigate, and there was no issues for the particular server and with the report. When checked the entry details, there is a row with the same data in the table that was mentioned by Slave status Last_error entity.

Quick check on the error log showed that the slave was started after cold back’s and immediately stopped with a duplicate entry error and the mysqld server version is 5.0.77-log Source distribution. From the analysis of the below statements, we found that the slave SQL thread was stopped with the error at a position backwards than the SQL thread initialized after cold backup’s. Read the rest of this entry . . .

A few days ago, we faced an interesting problem on one of our customer’s slave mysqld servers.  An Alter for adding a new column was run on master server took 542 seconds where as it took few hours on the slave server to complete due to a SELECT blocking the Alter was not allowed to complete.
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Recently, one of our customers had a problem with one of their replication slaves where a sql statement gave an error while executing on the slave which was executed successfully on the Master server.
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