Hello everyone, I had a horrible thing happen to me this morning and wanted to make it known to the community.
I needed to delete a record from a very large table (yes, it was backed up) and like the cli interface of mysql. I ran this query: delete from tablename where id - 12345; Notice that I accidentally hit the dash (-) instead of the equal (=). It proved to be disasterous as it deleted all the records from that table. Lucky for me I had a backup from last night and not too many records were added since then and I was able to restore. For the record, I am aware of the "select before delete" method, but didn't use it in this one instance and it meant a few hours restoring data. Just wanted to throw this out and see if others had possible solutions for working with the mysql cli interface for maybe setting up "rules" for it to cancel a query if it contains a certain character (like the dash). Fat chance there is, but I thought I'd ask. Hope this helps someone, Kevin -- Kevin Old [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]