Re: mysqldump and auto_increment

2008-05-20 Thread Dan Lipsitt
Thanks. That sounds pretty labor intensive, since I'd have to do the copy for each table. That makes the process much harder to automate. And I'm not sure the end result would be what I wanted anyway. I would like to be able to do this without copying data around. Does anybody have another suggesti

Re: mysqldump and auto_increment

2008-05-19 Thread Moon's Father
You can import your data into a test database,then export the data using statement select ... into ... then You can complare the two. On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 9:14 AM, Dan Lipsitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a set of flags for mysqldump that will include the auto_increment > specifier fo

RE: mysqldump and auto_increment

2004-05-18 Thread DChristensen
Gabe, There are actually some problems caused by how auto increments are tracked in the database. We do our backups by using mysqldump at night and preserving all of the log files that were created during the day. The problem occurs during recovery where auto increment values can be incremented