I have a MySQL database that I am running very simple queries against as part of a webapp. I have received reports from users starting today that they got an error saying that their account doesn't exist, and when they log in again, it does (this happened to only a few people, and only once to each, so clearly it is rare). Based on my backend code, this error can only occur if the same query returns 0 row the first time, and 1 row the second. My query is basically SELECT * FROM users WHERE username="...". How is this possible? My suspicion is that the hard disk is having I/O failures, but I am unsure because I would not expect MySQL to fail silently in this case. That said, I don't know what else it could be.
This could be a bug with your mysql client (Though I'm unsure as to how the structure of your code is, it could just be bad query). However let's assume that your query has been working fine up until now with no prior issues, so we'll rule out bad code.
With that in mind, I'm assuming it's either a bug in your mysql client or your max connection count is reached (Had this issue with my previous host - Hostinger).
Let's say your issue is a bug in your mysql client, set your sessions to per session basis by running this
SET SESSION optimizer_switch="index_merge_intersection=off";
or in your my.cnf you can set it globally
[mysqld] optimizer_switch=index_merge_intersection=off
As for max connection you can either increase your max_connection value (depending if your host allows it), or you'll have to make a logic to close the mysql connection after a query execution.
$mysqli->close();
I have a table with >19M rows that I want to create a subtable of (I'm breaking the table into several smaller tables). So I'm doing a CREATE TABLE new_table (SELECT ... FROM big_table). I run the query in MySQL Workbench.
The query takes a really long time to execute so eventually I get a "Lost connection to MySQL server" message. However, after a few minute the new table is there and it seems to contain all the data that was supposed to be copied over (I'm doing a GROUP BY so cannot just check that the number of rows are equal in both tables).
My question is: Am I guaranteed that the query is completed even though I lose connection to the database? Or could MySQL interrupt the query midway and still leave a table with incomplete data?
Am I guaranteed that the query is completed even though I lose connection to the database?
No. There are several reasons other than connection timeout to get lost-connection errors. The server might crash due to used-up disk space or a hardware fault. An administrator might have terminated your session.
"Guarantee" is a strong word in the world of database management. Because other peoples' data. You should not assume that any query ran correctly to completion unless it ended gracefully.
If you're asking because an overnight query failed and you don't want to repeat it, you can inspect the table with stuff like COUNT(*) to convince yourself it completed. But please don't rely on this kind of hackery in production with other peoples' data.
I'm using MySQL workbench to run a query. The query is reasonably big. When I limit the results to say 50 records the results are as expected. But when I remove the limit, the query runs for ~ 5 minutes then prompts me to re-enter my password. After doing so I see the query has not run and has stopped working.
It seems like there is a setting that kicks me off after a certain amount of time but I cannot see it in the drop down menus.
Has anyone experienced this? Any advice?
** Update**
Query ran and Workbench says results returned but they are not and I got the screen shot error pop up here:
It sounds like one of three things are the likely culprit.
MySql Workbench may be timing out.
This may help with #1
Go to Edit -> Preferences -> SQL Editor and set to a higher value this
parameter: DBMS connection read time out (in seconds). For instance:
86400.
Close and reopen MySQL Workbench. Kill your previously query that
probably is running and run the query again.
The mySQL server is timing out
You will need access to the server's timeout configuration
Something network related (but far less likely if your timeout happens consistently at around 5 mins)
There are a number of factors that might need adjusting.
If #2, you will need access to the server's timeout configuration
If #3, well, there are a number of factors that might need adjusting.
I am getting the error stated in my post title. I have two tables. The first one, large is over than 4000,000 records and the second, small one is arounf 7000 records. I want to search for the value in the samll table and if found, I want to extract the whole record from the large table. The command never executed and always lose the connection with the database. I tried to limit the out put to 50 records only, the same thing happens. Please help me. If I need something like indexing (I read this might solve such performance problems, please clarify to me how. I'm not a DBA).
select * from db.large, db.small
where large.value=small.value;
*EDIT: * I use MySQL workbench 5.2.41 CE.
At one point on a previous project, I could actually crash the MySQL server reproducibly with a pretty simple query. In the code that called the database, I saw the same error message. Can you verify that the MySQL server's process ID is the same before and after the query? Chances are that your OS restarts the MySQL server immediately after the crash, and the MySQL command line client automatically reconnects (though it emits a notice when it does).
From a script I sent a query like this thousands of times to my local database:
update some_table set some_column = some_value
I forgot to add the where part, so the same column was set to the same a value for all the rows in the table and this was done thousands of times and the column was indexed, so the corresponding index was probably updated too lots of times.
I noticed something was wrong, because it took too long, so I killed the script. I even rebooted my computer since then, but something stuck in the table, because simple queries take a very long time to run and when I try dropping the relevant index it fails with this message:
Lock wait timeout exceeded; try restarting transaction
It's an innodb table, so stuck the transaction is probably implicit. How can I fix this table and remove the stuck transaction from it?
I had a similar problem and solved it by checking the threads that are running.
To see the running threads use the following command in mysql command line interface:
SHOW PROCESSLIST;
It can also be sent from phpMyAdmin if you don't have access to mysql command line interface.
This will display a list of threads with corresponding ids and execution time, so you can KILL the threads that are taking too much time to execute.
In phpMyAdmin you will have a button for stopping threads by using KILL, if you are using command line interface just use the KILL command followed by the thread id, like in the following example:
KILL 115;
This will terminate the connection for the corresponding thread.
You can check the currently running transactions with
SELECT * FROM `information_schema`.`innodb_trx` ORDER BY `trx_started`
Your transaction should be one of the first, because it's the oldest in the list. Now just take the value from trx_mysql_thread_id and send it the KILL command:
KILL 1234;
If you're unsure which transaction is yours, repeat the first query very often and see which transactions persist.
Check InnoDB status for locks
SHOW ENGINE InnoDB STATUS;
Check MySQL open tables
SHOW OPEN TABLES WHERE In_use > 0;
Check pending InnoDB transactions
SELECT * FROM `information_schema`.`innodb_trx` ORDER BY `trx_started`;
Check lock dependency - what blocks what
SELECT * FROM `information_schema`.`innodb_locks`;
After investigating the results above, you should be able to see what is locking what.
The root cause of the issue might be in your code too - please check the related functions especially for annotations if you use JPA like Hibernate.
For example, as described here, the misuse of the following annotation might cause locks in the database:
#Transactional(propagation = Propagation.REQUIRES_NEW)
This started happening to me when my database size grew and I was doing a lot of transactions on it.
Truth is there is probably some way to optimize either your queries or your DB but try these 2 queries for a work around fix.
Run this:
SET GLOBAL innodb_lock_wait_timeout = 5000;
And then this:
SET innodb_lock_wait_timeout = 5000;
When you establish a connection for a transaction, you acquire a lock before performing the transaction. If not able to acquire the lock, then you try for sometime. If lock is still not obtainable, then lock wait time exceeded error is thrown. Why you will not able to acquire a lock is that you are not closing the connection. So, when you are trying to get a lock second time, you will not be able to acquire the lock as your previous connection is still unclosed and holding the lock.
Solution: close the connection or setAutoCommit(true) (according to your design) to release the lock.
Restart MySQL, it works fine.
BUT beware that if such a query is stuck, there is a problem somewhere :
in your query (misplaced char, cartesian product, ...)
very numerous records to edit
complex joins or tests (MD5, substrings, LIKE %...%, etc.)
data structure problem
foreign key model (chain/loop locking)
misindexed data
As #syedrakib said, it works but this is no long-living solution for production.
Beware : doing the restart can affect your data with inconsistent state.
Also, you can check how MySQL handles your query with the EXPLAIN keyword and see if something is possible there to speed up the query (indexes, complex tests,...).
Goto processes in mysql.
So can see there is task still working.
Kill the particular process or wait until process complete.
I ran into the same problem with an "update"-statement. My solution was simply to run through the operations available in phpMyAdmin for the table. I optimized, flushed and defragmented the table (not in that order). No need to drop the table and restore it from backup for me. :)
I had the same issue. I think it was a deadlock issue with SQL. You can just force close the SQL process from Task Manager. If that didn't fix it, just restart your computer. You don't need to drop the table and reload the data.
I had this problem when trying to delete a certain group of records (using MS Access 2007 with an ODBC connection to MySQL on a web server). Typically I would delete certain records from MySQL then replace with updated records (cascade delete several related records, this streamlines deleting all related records for a single record deletion).
I tried to run through the operations available in phpMyAdmin for the table (optimize,flush, etc), but I was getting a need permission to RELOAD error when I tried to flush. Since my database is on a web server, I couldn't restart the database. Restoring from a backup was not an option.
I tried running delete query for this group of records on the cPanel mySQL access on the web. Got same error message.
My solution: I used Sun's (Oracle's) free MySQL Query Browser (that I previously installed on my computer) and ran the delete query there. It worked right away, Problem solved. I was then able to once again perform the function using the Access script using the ODBC Access to MySQL connection.
Issue in my case: Some updates were made to some rows within a transaction and before the transaction was committed, in another place, the same rows were being updated outside this transaction. Ensuring that all the updates to the rows are made within the same transaction resolved my issue.
issue resolved in my case by changing delete to truncate
issue-
query:
delete from Survey1.sr_survey_generic_details
mycursor.execute(query)
fix-
query:
truncate table Survey1.sr_survey_generic_details
mycursor.execute(query)
This happened to me when I was accessing the database from multiple platforms, for example from dbeaver and control panels. At some point dbeaver got stuck and therefore the other panels couldn't process additional information. The solution is to reboot all access points to the database. close them all and restart.
Fixed it.
Make sure you doesn't have mismatched data type insert in query.
I had an issue where i was trying "user browser agent data" in VARCHAR(255) and having issue with this lock however when I changed it to TEXT(255) it fixed it.
So most likely it is a mismatch of data type.
I solved the problem by dropping the table and restoring it from backup.