utf8 options under Mysql

2016-04-21 Thread Martin Mueller
MySQL has a bewildering variety of unicode collation choices. Most of them are language specific, but what is the difference between "utf8-general-ci", "utf8-unicode-ci", and "utf8-unicode-520-ci." Do they differ in the range of characters they can handle or is it just a matter of the cort

Re: Lost Connection Upon Loading Dump

2016-04-21 Thread Peter Brawley
On 4/21/2016 10:51, Stephen R Guglielmo wrote: Hello, I have a empty db that I'm trying to load a .sql file (created via mysqldump) into. The dump has 791611 lines and is 807 MB. Loading the dump is consistently failing at line 1763. Line 1763 is an INSERT statement. The line is 95610

Re: parallel installations of mysql

2016-04-21 Thread shawn l.green
On 4/20/2016 2:04 PM, Martin Mueller wrote: I am running MySQL 5.6.22 on an iMac as a desktop database. I would like to install 5.7.12. Can I install it as a parallel and independent instance? And if so, are there special problems to watch out for? Why would I want to do this? Well, I

Lost Connection Upon Loading Dump

2016-04-21 Thread Stephen R Guglielmo
Hello, I have a empty db that I'm trying to load a .sql file (created via mysqldump) into. The dump has 791611 lines and is 807 MB. Loading the dump is consistently failing at line 1763. Line 1763 is an INSERT statement. The line is 95610 characters long. The error is: ERROR 2013 (HY000) at line

Re: parallel installations of mysql

2016-04-21 Thread Johan De Meersman
That works nicely, you just need to make sure that you set up the second instance on a different port, with different data and log directories etc. Do you expect many issues from the upgrade? In most cases, an in-place upgrade should work the same or better than the old version :-) -