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Beware Starting Slaves in the Position in the master.info file


I’ve seen many a good DBA make the master of starting slaves from the position in the master.info file, most recently ...

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When the ALTER TABLE privilege is not enough to run ALTER TABLE


I recently granted ALTER access in MySQL so a user could run the ALTER TABLE command . However after I granted the ...

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MySQL on Debian and Ubuntu


Debian Linux (the underlying foundation of Ubuntu) manages the startup/shutdown of MySQL quite differently from the ...

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