Archive for July, 2009

MySQL replication, how the slave saved the master

Saturday, July 25th, 2009

I spent a good deal of last night repairing a MySQL master-slave setup for a customer of ours, running a fairly large website. One of their developers made the usual mistake of running a query much like “UPDATE table SET x = ‘This is a test’” and forgot the WHERE clause. This wouldn’t have been [...]