Changing MySQL 5.0's tmp folder within my.ini in Windows - mysql

I have a MySQL server (version 5.0.67) running on Windows 7. While I was working with hibernate within Eclipse, I got the following error:
Caused by: java.sql.SQLException: Can't create/write to file 'C:\Windows\TEMP#sql_e9c_0.MYI' (Errcode: 17)
I tried to configure the TmpPath of MySQL and set Systemparameters to TMPDIR:
TEMP=C:\Users\JDD09~1.HER\AppData\Local\Temp
TMP=C:\Users\JDD09~1.HER\AppData\Local\Temp
TMPDIR=C:\tmp\tmpdir
Within my.ini, I made the following change:
[mysqld]
tmpdir=C:\tmp\tmpdir
However, now MySQL aborts when it tries to start up.
I've read this thread (Changing the tmp folder of mysql), but it didn't help. How can I fix this?

You may need to make sure you are using forward slashes '/' instead of backward slashes '\'. This worked for me, so you would use this line:
tmpdir=C:/tmp/tmpdir

Try this:
[mysqld]
tmpdir="C:\tmp\tmpdir"
and make sure that path C:\tmp\tmpdir must exist in the system.

According to the manual for Mysql 5.0 as regard 'TMPDIR': 5.0/en/windows-installation.html. The default is to use the windows temporary directory.
If you decide to define it. Then it must be a valid directory. It will not create it.
My recommendation, for a 'development' system on a local pc is not bother changing it.
If you are not sure then delete the entry from 'my.ini'. This will use the default settings which should be ok to get you started.
ps. i use 'mysql' on windows.

According to the documentation:
On Windows, MySQL checks in order the values of the TMPDIR, TEMP, and TMP environment variables. For the first one found to be set, MySQL uses it and does not check those remaining. If none of TMPDIR, TEMP, or TMP are set, MySQL uses the Windows system default, which is usually C:\windows\temp.
If the file system containing your temporary file directory is too small, you can use the mysqld --tmpdir option to specify a directory in a file system where you have enough space.
The --tmpdir option can be set to a list of several paths that are used in round-robin fashion. Paths should be separated by colon characters (:) on Unix and semicolon characters (;) on Windows.
Edit the file C:\ProgramData\MySQL\MySQL Server 8.0\my.ini
Add the following line, under [mysqld]
[mysqld]
tmpdir=C:/tmp/tmpdir
Restart MySQL service under Windows services.
Change can be verified by the following commands in windows prompt
mysql -uroot -p -e "SHOW VARIABLES LIKE 'tmpdir'"

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MySQL80 Service on local computer started and the stopped. How to solve?

I'm receiving this error of MYSQL80 service on local computer started and stopped. Some services stop automatically if they are not in use by other services or programs. when I try to start my MySQL server from the services.msc
I already run mysqld --install and mysqld --initialize. Already tried to change the properties of the service to local system account. I checked my.ini file, it is in Program Data folder, the Uploads folder exists as well. I also checked the .err file but nothing is helpful there, the last line is something like 'NO_ZERO_DATE', 'NO_ZERO_IN_DATE' and 'ERROR_FOR_DIVISION_BY_ZERO' sql modes should be used with strict mode. that I don't really know what it means and google didn't help.
I don't know what else to try, I tried pretty much everything that I found.
This is my path to executable, do you think this should point to my.ini file? If so, how do I change that?
Also, there is another MySQL service on the list which I can start, but it's empty, my database is on the MySQL80 server (the one that I cannot start):
Any idea?
I am assuming that the password you enter is valid and still it's showing a login error.
I had the same issue just to allow the table to CSV export. I made some changes in my.ini and the service mysql80 never started.. after searching everywhere I came to the conclusion that we need to uninstall the MySQL server (Just server) and reinstall it.
Don't worry your databases will be safe just uninstall MySQL server "Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Programs and Features" and reinstall MySQL server. MySQL installer-> add->mysql server 8.X.X, and try login again.
Hope this help just worked like magic for me.
If using version 8 and you edit the my.ini I found that Notepad is putting 3 hex characters at the beginning of the my.ini file. EF BB BF. Deleting the 3 characters from the beginning of the file in a hex editor fixes the problem.
In version 8 they are accidentally putting Unicode characters in the ini file. This is causing Notepad to save the file with Byte order mark characters.
The following line in the file is the culprit "The line # range from 1 to 2^32 − 1. “Unique” means that each ID must be different." has 3 Unicode characters. This is causing notepad to append the byte order mark to the text file.
The other solution is to replace the my.ini file if you have a backup.
Stop the service mysql and start the services mysql80.
That's what I did and worked.

MySQL binary log location Windows 2008 Server

I'm running a Windows 2008 Server with IIS, PHP and MySQL. MySQL is installed as a service. There's software on the server that uses a database that I need good backups of, including transaction logging. I've turned on Binary Logging via setting log-bin= and expire_logs_days= in the my.ini file. This saves those logs in the MySQL data folder on that drive. If I lose the drive, I lose my logs and they've done me no good as a backup.
I've found all kinds of advice for relocating these logs on a Linux box, but trying to use the same idea of including a path in the log-bin statement is not working. I've tried "flipping" the slashes, adding quotes and the common other attempts when "translating" Linux to Windows.
I created a mapped drive to the external location to make this easier, and I've tried using \server\folder path statements as well as z:\ path statements.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
If you made your changes in the [mysqld] section in the my.ini file then you should be good. The correct path naming convention, should look something like this log-bin="C:/yourfilepathname/logs". Since you are still experiencing issues, Please check to make sure that mysql has permission to write to the directory that you are specify the logs files to be written to.
Another way you can check if this is the issue, go to your .err log file when you try to stop and start mysql server it will tell you something along the lines of not having permission to write to that directory.
Also, I would note that log bin files in it of themselves are not a backup. You need to be taking mysqldumps or snapshots of the entire directory from your server, preferably from a slave of your master production server.
You are missing a trailing slash.
Here is what's in my my.ini (I'm using MariaDB 10.1, but I believe this will work for you also):
[mysqld]
datadir=D:/mysql-data
log-bin=E:/mysql-bin/
When I left out the trailing slash in the log-bin setting, I also got the same error in logs, and the service failed to start. After adding the slash, no errors, and the service started successfully.
I now see files getting created in E:\mysql-bin, such as .index, .000001.
make sure you are ending with filename. see below.
log-bin=C:/Program Files/MySQL/MySQL Server 5.6/data/bin.log
Actually it's due to using the normal windows backslashes. Instead of z:\ use z:/ (forward slash). Also if you don't end with a forward slash then it will use the last part as the file name. Exp:
z:/bin-logs/ (this will have files named .index and .000001)
z:/bin-logs/log (this will have files named log.index and log.000001)

How to force case sensitive table names?

I'm working on a MySQL database in windows.
I must move it into a Linux environment. MySQL database contains a lot of tables and stored procedures which are CASE SENSITIVE.
When I backup my database, all table names are forced lowercase so when I restore it in Linux it complains because you can't make duplicate tables and stored procedures.
I don't have access to the MySQL configuration in the linux environment so I cant change MySQL settings to case insensitive mode.
Is there any way to force MySQL (v5.x) to use case sensitive table names in windows?
Read the following chapter in the official MySQL documentation: Identifier Case Sensitivity.
Then add the following system variable to the server section, [mysqld], inside the my.ini configuration file and restart the MySQL service:
lower_case_table_names=2
Have a look at this article - http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/identifier-case-sensitivity.html
Mode 2 allows to store tables with specified lettercase, but anyway, name comparisons won't be case sensitive and you won't be able to store table1 and Table1 at the same time.
On Windows put lower_case_table_names=2 at the end of the
C:\ProgramData\MySQL\MySQL Server 5.7\my.ini file.
Unfortunately there's no way of making MySQL on windows to behave 100% as in Linux. What you can do, is to run a minimal VM on Virtual Box or VMware player with TurnKey - MySQL Appliance.
In my personal experience, I've found quite useful to have a VM with a configuration similar to the deployment environment to diagnose problems.
Add this property to lower_case_table_names=2 to my.ini
By default, table names are case sensitive in Windows, but you can make it case sensitive by updating the lower_case_table_names variable to 2.
ref: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/identifier-case-sensitivity.html
However, before going to the further process, create backups of your existing databases. Then you need to remove all existing databases to avoid table name inconsistency.
We were on the step to set lower_case_table_names to 2, but this variable is read-only, so you can not update it using the script. So need to change it to the configure file (my.ini). For windows, it's available in the C:\ProgramData\MySQL\MySQL Server X.X directory. Open this file in administrator mode and set the lower_case_table_names variable value to 2.
These changes will not take effect until you restart the MySQL server before restarting the MySQL Server by following steps.
Open the Run window by using the Windows+R keyboard
Type services.msc and press Enter
Select the MySQL service and click the restart button
ref: https://www.mysqltutorial.org/mysql-adminsitration/restart-mysql/
MySQL server might not start because of changes in the my.ini file. In that case, we can not proceed further. Therefore lower_case_table_names variable value set back 1 again. then restart the MySQL server mentioned above.
Finally, we only have one remaining option to make a case-sensitive table name for MySQL in windows, completely removing MySQL from your machine and configuring it during installation. During install, check Advanced and Logging Options from the Type and Networking tab, then select the radio button to preserve the given case from the Advanced Options tab.
ref: Can't set lower_case_table_names in MySQL 8.x on Windows 10
i add this line and it solve the different case problem
lower_case_table_names=1
in /etc/my.cnf
you can see how to set mysql variable "lower_case_table_names" form this page :
https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/server-system-variables.html#sysvar_lower_case_table_names
In MySQL 8, lower_case_table_names setting is not allowed once installation is done. To enable the setting , you have to re-install mysql

MySQL and Windows Vista: How to setup replication?

I found many links where unix system is using.
Could anybody give some links for windows settings or tell me some quick start?
There are two listening addreses: 127.0.0.1/2 but mysql can connect also on 127.0.0.3 and so on. That is strange.
Thanks
In Windows, MYSQL.EXE can be called to install a windows service. The service then can be started and stopped using SERVICES.MSC or "NET START/STOP servicename". Part of the service-definition is the path to the MY.INI file that your MySQL instance is to use.
Example:
"C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server 5.1\bin\mysqld" --install instance1 --defaults-file=c:\instance1\my.ini
In your my.ini file, you need to create a [mysqld] section, and for each instance you need to define a different port number (or ip number) to use, and a different datadir.
Example:
[mysqld]
port=3307
datadir=c:\instance1\data
You can, and should, add additional definition here, or maybe use an existing my.ini file as a base to start from. Also, you need to copy a database datadir into that datadir-location, or generate a new empty datadir using whatever method - you'll end up with c:\instance1\data\mysql and the user.frm, user.MYD, user.MYI and so on files in that directories.
Start the instance using NET START instance1 or SERVICES.MSC. Check EVENTVWR.MSC for error messages if that fails.
Talk to the instance using
mysql --port=3307 --host=127.0.0.1
again avoiding the word localhost, as it has special meaning.
It is then possible to use normal Unix replication tutorials to play with replication. Make sure you are using 127.0.0.1 as a hostname ("localhost" is a magic word in the MySQL/C connector and it's derivates), and that you always also specify a proper port number.
Ok. I found out that I need different servers anyway.

How to enable inno-db support on MySql 5 installed above MySql 4?

How to enable inno-db support on installed instance of MySql?
I have installed mysql-5.0.67-win32.
'InnoDB' is 'DISABLED' when executing 'show engines'.
According to documentation MySql is compiled with support of inno-db
(From doc: A value of DISABLED occurs either because the server was started with an option that disables the engine, or because not all options required to enable it were given.)
In my.ini I commented line with 'skip-innodb'. This didn't help.
All other inno-db related variables remain unchanged.
I have performed some unusual action before I experienced described situation.
I have mysql-4.0.17-win installed. I uninstall it and after this installed mysql-5.0.67-win32.
In installation wizard I chose MyISAM support only (as far as I understand I disabled inno-db support in such way. When I tried to reinstall with support of inno-db I had problems of using my previous database 'mysql' with account information).
MySQL documentation says that I should use mysqldump to export data and after this to import exported data in process of upgrade. I tried to do so, but when importing data I obtained message about syntax error (I think that it is connected with some incompatibilities of 4-th and 5-th version of mysql)
Should be enabled by default. There are some situations where wrong permissions on the MySQL lib folder cause InnoDB to bark. Check your MySQL error log for permission errors.
I do have the following innodb options in my.ini. It is a very minimal configuration, so dont' use this values if you would like mysql to have a good performance. Please restart mysql after a change of my.ini.
#*** INNODB Specific options ***
innodb_data_home_dir="C:/mysqldata/"
#skip-innodb
innodb_additional_mem_pool_size=120M
innodb_flush_log_at_trx_commit=1
innodb_log_buffer_size=16M
innodb_buffer_pool_size=10M
innodb_log_file_size=2M
innodb_thread_concurrency=8
Maybe you have inno-db disabled in the global configuration file. On Linux this would be something like /etc/mysql/my.cnf - maybe Windows has a similar global conf-file.
Make sure you are changing the correct my.ini file. On Windows this is read from many locations. The order is:
WINDIR\my.ini, WINDIR\my.cnf
C:\my.ini, C:\my.cnf
INSTALLDIR\my.ini, INSTALLDIR\my.cnf
defaults-extra-file
Type mysql --help in the command prompt to see the actual order on your computer e.g.:
Default options are read from the
following files in the given order:
C:\my.ini C:\my.cnf C:\WINDOWS\my.ini
C:\WINDOWS\my.cnf C:\Program
Files\MySQL\M ySQL Server 5.0\my.ini
C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server
5.0\my.cnf
have you checked the startup parameters? maybe the shell script or batch file that you use to start up the server disable the engine on the command line.. IIRC command line flags trumps the .ini settings.
I have resolved the problem.
In short:
I was not able to dump databases on MySql4 and restore it on MySql5 due to some strange syntactic errors when importing data.
I tried after installation to override MySql5 databases with old ones, including database 'mysql'. It works ok but I was not able to enable inno-db support. (In such way I even was able to use function PASSWORD for old passwords (instead of OLD_PASSWORD))
Since database structure of 'mysql' is changed in 5 version I tried to install MySql5 again and copied my old databases except 'mysql' one. After this I updated 'mysql' database with corrected version of exported data from 'mysql'. In such a way I obtained mysql 5 working.
After all I also executed mysqlcheck --all-databases --auto-repair
to upgrade my tables.
P.S. Thank to authors of all answers which hint me to the correct way of resolving problem.