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April 18, 2012 at 10:20 am

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Just had a 1.4TB, (whisper it) MySQL table become corrupt. Wonder how long the repair'll take? :crazy:

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PaulB-TheOneAndOnly SSC Guru Points: 66772 More actions · Answer 1

Gazareth (4/18/2012)
Just had a 1.4TB, (whisper it) MySQL table become corrupt. Wonder how long the repair'll take? :crazy:

MySQL? do you realize this is the Oracle section of a SQL Server forum?

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Lynn Pettis SSC Guru Points: 442467 More actions · Answer 2

PaulB-TheOneAndOnly (4/18/2012)
Gazareth (4/18/2012)
Just had a 1.4TB, (whisper it) MySQL table become corrupt. Wonder how long the repair'll take? :crazy:
MySQL? do you realize this is the Oracle section of a SQL Server forum?

Well, MySQL is owned by Oracle.... 😛

Gazareth One Orange Chip Points: 27737 More actions · Answer 3

Lynn Pettis (4/18/2012)
PaulB-TheOneAndOnly (4/18/2012)
Gazareth (4/18/2012)
Just had a 1.4TB, (whisper it) MySQL table become corrupt. Wonder how long the repair'll take? :crazy:
MySQL? do you realize this is the Oracle section of a SQL Server forum?
Well, MySQL is owned by Oracle.... 😛

Bingo 😉

I was going to put it in the "Anything that's not about SQL" forum. Describes MySQL pretty well, no? 😛

PaulB-TheOneAndOnly SSC Guru Points: 66772 More actions · Answer 4

Lynn Pettis (4/18/2012)
PaulB-TheOneAndOnly (4/18/2012)
Gazareth (4/18/2012)
Just had a 1.4TB, (whisper it) MySQL table become corrupt. Wonder how long the repair'll take? :crazy:
MySQL? do you realize this is the Oracle section of a SQL Server forum?
Well, MySQL is owned by Oracle.... 😛

True. Oracle also owns PeopleSoft and I do not see any PeopleSoft related questions here 😀

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Pablo (Paul) Berzukov

Author of Understanding Database Administration available at Amazon and other bookstores.

Disclaimer: Advice is provided to the best of my knowledge but no implicit or explicit warranties are provided. Since the advisor explicitly encourages testing any and all suggestions on a test non-production environment advisor should not held liable or responsible for any actions taken based on the given advice.

Lowell SSC Guru Points: 323518 More actions · Answer 5

Gazareth (4/18/2012)
Just had a 1.4TB, (whisper it) MySQL table become corrupt. Wonder how long the repair'll take? :crazy:

OK it's been a whole day already!

How long did the repair take, and did it work?

if you restore that from backup, how long does a restore take for a database that size?

It would be nice to hear some numbers based on your experience just to understand the impact a little better, thanks!

Lowell

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Lynn Pettis SSC Guru Points: 442467 More actions · Answer 6

PaulB-TheOneAndOnly (4/19/2012)
Lynn Pettis (4/18/2012)
PaulB-TheOneAndOnly (4/18/2012)
Gazareth (4/18/2012)
Just had a 1.4TB, (whisper it) MySQL table become corrupt. Wonder how long the repair'll take? :crazy:
MySQL? do you realize this is the Oracle section of a SQL Server forum?
Well, MySQL is owned by Oracle.... 😛
True. Oracle also owns PeopleSoft and I do not see any PeopleSoft related questions here 😀

If you are talking about this particular forum, true, I haven't seen any. However, I have seen PeopleSoft questions on several other forums on ssc. They were pretty easy to spot when the OP posted code. Helps that I helped support PeopleSoft for 5 years.

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Lowell (4/19/2012)
Gazareth (4/18/2012)
Just had a 1.4TB, (whisper it) MySQL table become corrupt. Wonder how long the repair'll take? :crazy:
OK it's been a whole day already!
How long did the repair take, and did it work?
if you restore that from backup, how long does a restore take for a database that size?
It would be nice to hear some numbers based on your experience just to understand the impact a little better, thanks!

Still not repaired! About to have a discussion on alternative fixes I've suggested.

I'll give a more thorough run down later 🙂

Last time I restored this database it took about 3 days :w00t:

Gazareth One Orange Chip Points: 27737 More actions · Answer 8

Well, boringly, we just junked the server instead of fixing it.

The repair ran out of of disk space - didn't have 3TB available to that server!

(So that's something to remember when repairing a MySQL table - allow for free disk space greater than the size of the table you're repairing!).

We were in the process of migrating to SQL Server - I'd already copied the data a couple of weekends previously.

All this did was kickstart the devs into updating their apps.

A conspiracy theorist would claim the corruption was no coincidence... :Whistling: