You don't even need to stop the server afaik. As mentioned previously,
though, works for MyISAM only.

On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 3:17 PM, Robinson, Eric <eric.robin...@psmnv.com>wrote:

> >RENAME TABLE
> >   olddb.table1 TO newdb.table1,
> >   olddb.table2 TO newdb.table2
>
> >put the whole list in here, the whole statement will be applied to the
> system atomically
>
> The database has 1200+ tables, so your approach seems like more work to
> me. As it is, all I'm doing is:
>
> service mysql stop
> mv olddb newdb
> service mysql start
> mysqlcheck -o newdb
>
>
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