13.Administering Your Database
In this chapter we will cover the day-to-day administration activities associated with running a MySQL database, including the following:
• Starting up and shutting down
• Getting information about the server and databases
• Setting variables
• Killing threads
• Clearing caches
• Analyzing tables
• Understanding the log files
Although this chapter is structured in a task-oriented fashion, we will make use of one important script, mysqladmin, for several of these tasks.
The mysqladmin script is used with appropriate parameters to perform a wide variety of administrative tasks. A summary of these appears at the end of this chapter.
We will also cover the use of the mysqlshow and mysqlcheck scripts and the ...
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