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Recovering a Schema From InnoDB .frm Files

Sometimes you find yourself in a bad situation where your only hope of recovering your InnoDB data lies in a handful of .frm and .ibd data files that were heretofore part of a working MySQL installation.

Emergency Database Recovery

Restore and recovery are the first steps to getting back on your feet in an unplanned outage.

Using Checksums to Ensure Table Consistency in MySQL

If you’re using MySQL replication, chances are your master and slave databases aren’t entirely consistent. There are a number of reasons for this. Some MySQL functions like UUID() don’t replicate properly with statement-based replication.