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Repairing corrupted MySQL tables

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OK, so whilst using my stats monitoring software (tracewatch) it decided to bomb out on me and say the database was corrupted and needed repairing!

Example screen shot below….

corrupted table

 

 

It’s a nice simple program but I think my HDD is on the fritz so ended up getting errors all over the place and eventually received a message that it was corrupted and needed repairing

Basically the following is the commands I used to repair the database
{you must use a semicolon after each command}

– First open a command prompt (start > run > cmd) (run as admin on windows 7)
– Then change to your mysql\bin directory (i.e c:\cats\dogs\mysql\bin)
– Then enter the following command: mysql -u(yourDBUN) -p(yourdbpassword (default is root for UN)
– When logged in enter the name of your database with a semicolon following it
– If you are not sure type the command “show databases;” and press enter
– Then when you find the database type “use DBNAME;”

– Enter the below command (if you don’t know the table name {use show tables; if not sure})


– Your database should then be selected, after this enter the command “check table TABLENAME;”
– A message will probably be outputted its corrupted. Then just enter “repair table TABLENAME;” and after this everything should be repaired

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