Never used it, but this might help: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/checksum-table.html James Harvard
At 5:00 pm -0700 19/4/06, Robinson, Eric wrote: >I have master-slave replication working fine. However, I worry about the >possibility of the master and slave accidentally getting out of >synchronization. Are there circumstances (other than a direct INSERT to the >slave) that could cause the master and slave to be out of sync? Is there a way >to periodically do some kind of full check to verify that the slave is an >exact duplicate of the master? I thought of just counting the rows in all the >tables on both servers, but that only tells part of the story. Is the a more >elegant and complete way? Also, the servers are separated by a slow WAN link, >so transferring the whole database across the network is not an option. -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]