Re: upgrading from 4.1 to 5.0 "trick"

2009-09-02 Thread Hank
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 9:18 AM, Shawn Green wrote: > Hank wrote: > >> Hello All, >> I'm in the process of upgrading my database from 4.1 to 5.0 on CentOS. >> I've been testing the "mysqlcheck --check-upgrade --auto-repair" >> command, >> and on one of my MYISAM tables, it's taking forever to

Re: upgrading from 4.1 to 5.0 "trick"

2009-08-28 Thread Shawn Green
Hank wrote: Hello All, I'm in the process of upgrading my database from 4.1 to 5.0 on CentOS. I've been testing the "mysqlcheck --check-upgrade --auto-repair" command, and on one of my MYISAM tables, it's taking forever to upgrade the table. It has about 114 million rows, and I'm guessing i

upgrading from 4.1 to 5.0 "trick"

2009-08-26 Thread Hank
Hello All, I'm in the process of upgrading my database from 4.1 to 5.0 on CentOS. I've been testing the "mysqlcheck --check-upgrade --auto-repair" command, and on one of my MYISAM tables, it's taking forever to upgrade the table. It has about 114 million rows, and I'm guessing it needs to be

Re: Upgrading from 4.1 to 5.0

2008-04-23 Thread Brent Baisley
You may want to try replication. Setup your replication server as 5.0. That server gives you a chance to play to get things right without affecting the master server. You'll still need to do a dump to get the slave up to speed. Once you get everything right, you can switch over and the sla

Upgrading from 4.1 to 5.0

2008-04-23 Thread Paul Choi
Does anyone have experience with upgrading large databases (~500GB each) from MySQL 4.1 to 5.0? The tables are in InnoDB format. We are using the Community version. I've read that it's recommended that you use mysqldump and then restore, but this is not possible for us, as we cannot have our data

Upgrading from 4.1 to 5.0 breaks things?

2006-01-30 Thread Stever
Hello, I am in an environment that has a bunch of unrelated mysql databases that exist on one server. I would like to upgrade to mysql 5.0 to take advantage of the newer features, but I don't want to break existing functionality. I checked out http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/upgrading-fro