Today we’ll look at how to backup your MySQL databases. It’s a good idea to backup your databases on a regular basis so ]you have a working ‘good’ copy in the event of data loss due to failure or if…
Today we’ll look into repairing a crashed WordPress database table. The error message could appear in one of many ways, some of them below: [20-Oct-2019 15:28:18 UTC] WordPress database error Table ‘wp_options’ is marked as crashed and should be repaired…
Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) let’s you do a lot of interesting stuff inside Windows, biggest of which is installing Linux applications. We’ll look into installing MariaDB on Ubuntu running inside WSL. Before we start, make sure you have WSL…
I’ve recently moved a number of properties to a server running Apache 2.4, PHP FPM 5.4, MariaDB 10. & Varnish 4.0. The gain in performance is phenomenal. Varnish does wonders to speed up your property. One issue reported was that…
It is pretty straightforward to check a MySQL / MariaDB table for a Primary Key, connect to the db server, login or open up your favorite MySQL client. Without selecting any table, issue the following command: SHOW INDEXES FROM <TABLE>…
Installing the latest stable version of Mariadb, v. 10.1, is pretty straight forward. Start off by heading over to the repo configurator and getting the links for your version of Ubuntu: LINK For us the commands were as follows, enter them…
About MariaDB MariaDB one of the most popular and an enhanced drop-in replacements for MySQL. It was created and is maintained by the original developers of MySQL. MariaDB is very interesting because if is fast, scalable and more robust than MySQL.…