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I changed the datadir of a MySQL installation and all the bases moved correctly except for one.
I can connect and USE the database. SHOW TABLES also returns me all the tables correctly, and the files of each table exists on the MySQL data directory.
However, when I try to SELECT something from the table, I get an error message that the table does not exist. Yet, this does not make sense since I was able to show the same table through SHOW TABLES statement.
My guess is that SHOW TABLES lists file existence but does not check whether a file is corrupted or not. Consequently, I can list those files but not access them.
Nevertheless, it is merely a guess. I have never seen this before. Now, I cannot restart the database for testing, but every other application that uses it is running fine.
But that's just a guess, I've never seen this before.
Does anyone know why this is happening?
Example:
mysql> SHOW TABLES;
+-----------------------+
| Tables_in_database |
+-----------------------+
| TABLE_ONE |
| TABLE_TWO |
| TABLE_THREE |
+-----------------------+
mysql> SELECT * FROM TABLE_ONE;
ERROR 1146 (42S02): Table 'database.TABLE_ONE' doesn't exist
Just in case anyone still cares:
I had the same issue after copying a database directory directly using command
cp -r /path/to/my/database /var/lib/mysql/new_database
If you do this with a database that uses InnoDB tables, you will get this crazy 'table does not exist' error mentioned above.
The issue is that you need the ib* files in the root of the MySQL datadir (e.g. ibdata1, ib_logfile0 and ib_logfile1).
When I copied those it worked for me.
For me on Mac OS (MySQL DMG Installation) a simple restart of the MySQL server solved the problem. I am guessing the hibernation caused it.
I get this issue when the case for the table name I'm using is off. So table is called 'db' but I used 'DB' in select statement. Make sure the case is the same.
This error can also occur when setting lower_case_table_names to 1, and then trying to access tables that were created with the default value for that variable. In that case you can revert it to the previous value and you will be able to read the table.
I don't know the reason but in my case I solved just disabling and enabling the foreign keys check
SET FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS=0;
SET FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS=1;
stop mysqld
backup mysql folder: cp -a /var/lib/mysql /var/lib/mysql-backup
copy database folder from old machine to /var/lib/mysql
override ib* (ib_logfile* , ibdata ) from old database
start mysqld
dump dabase
mysqldump >dbase.mysql
stop mysql service
remove /var/lib/mysql
rename /var/lib/mysql-backup to /var/lib/mysql
start mysqld
create the database
mysqldump < dbase.mysql
Please run the query:
SELECT
i.TABLE_NAME AS table_name,
LENGTH(i.TABLE_NAME) AS table_name_length,
IF(i.TABLE_NAME RLIKE '^[A-Za-z0-9_]+$','YES','NO') AS table_name_is_ascii
FROM
information_schema.`TABLES` i
WHERE
i.TABLE_SCHEMA = 'database'
Unfortunately MySQL allows unicode and non-printable characters to be used in table name.
If you created your tables by copying create code from some document/website, there is a chance that it has zero-width-space somewhere.
I had the same problem and I searched for 2-3 days, but the solution for me was really stupid.
Restart the mysql
$ sudo service mysql restart
Now tables become accessible.
I have just spend three days on this nightmare. Ideally, you should have a backup that you can restore, then simply drop the damaged table. These sorts of errors can cause your ibdata1 to grow huge (100GB+ in size for modest tables)
If you don't have a recent backup, such as if you relied on mySqlDump, then your backups probably silently broke at some point in the past. You will need to export the databases, which of course you cant do, because you will get lock errors while running mySqlDump.
So, as a workaround, go to /var/log/mysql/database_name/ and remove the table_name.*
Then immediately try to dump the table; doing this should now work. Now restore the database to a new database and rebuild the missing table(s). Then dump the broken database.
In our case we were also constantly getting mysql has gone away messages at random intervals on all databases; once the damaged database were removed everything went back to normal.
Try to run sql query to discard tablespace before copying idb-file:
ALTER TABLE mydatabase.mytable DISCARD TABLESPACE;
Copy idb-file
ALTER TABLE mydatabase.mytable IMPORT TABLESPACE;
Restart MySql
O.k. this is going to sound pretty absurd, but humor me.
For me the problem got resolved when I changed my statement to this :
SELECT * FROM `table`
I made two changes
1.) Made the table name lower case - I know !!
2.) Used the specific quote symbol = ` : It's the key above your TAB
The solution does sound absurd, but it worked and it's Saturday evening and I've been working since 9 a.m. - So I'll take it :)
Good luck.
What worked for me, was just dropping the table, even though it didnt exist. Then I re created the table and repopulated from an sql dump done previously.
There must be some metabase of table names, and it was most likely still existing in there till i dropped it.
Had a similar problem with a ghost table. Thankfully had an SQL dump from before the failure.
In my case, I had to:
Stop mySQL
Move ib* files from /var/mysql off to a backup
Delete /var/mysql/{dbname}
Restart mySQL
Recreate empty database
Restore dump file
NOTE: Requires dump file.
I had this problem after upgrading WAMP but having no database backup.
This worked for me:
Stop new WAMP
Copy over database directories you need and ibdata1 file from old WAMP installation
Delete ib_logfile0 and ib_logfile1
Start WAMP
You should now be able to make backups of your databases. However after your server restarts again you will still have problems. So now reinstall WAMP and import your databases.
After having to reinstall MySQL I had this same problem, it seems that during the install, some configuration files that store data about the InnoDB log files, these files ib_logfile* (they are log files right?), are overwriten. To solve this problem I just deleted the ib_logfile* files.
Do mysqldump to database:
mysqldump -u user -ppass dbname > D:\Back-ups\dbname.sql
Restore database
mysql -u user -ppass dbname < D:\Back-ups\dbname.sql
Now all tables in database were restored completely. Try..
SELECT * FROM dbname.tablename;
It appears that the issue has to do (at least in mine and a few others) with invalid (corrupt?) innodb log files. Generally speaking, they simply need to be recreated.
Here are solutions, most of which require a restart of mysql.
Recreate your log files (Delete and restart mysql)
Resize your log files (MySql 5.6+ will regenerate the file for you)
If you are doing some type of a data migration, make sure you have correctly migrated the right file and given it permissions as others have already stated
Check permissions of your data and log files, that mysql is owner of both
If all else fails, you will likely have to recreate the database
In my case, i had defined a trigger on the table and then was trying to insert the row in table. seems like, somehow trigger was erroneous, and hence insert was giving error, table doesn't exist.
Copy only ibdata1 file from your old data directory. Do not copy ib_logfile1 or ib_logfile0 files. That will cause MySQL to not start anymore.
Came cross same problem today. This is a mysql "Identifier Case Sensitivity" issue.
Please check corresponding data file. It is very likely that file name is in lower case on file system but table name listed in "show tables" command is in upper case. If system variable "lower_case_table_names" is 0, the query will return "table not exist" because name comparisons are case sensitive when "lower_case_table_names" is 0.
Its possible you have a hidden character in your table name. Those don't show up when you do a show tables. Can you do a "SHOW CREATE TABLE TABLE_ONE" and tab complete the "TABLE_ONE" and see if it puts in any hidden characters. Also, have you tried dropping and remaking the tables. Just to make sure nothing is wrong with the privileges and that there are no hidden characters.
I installed MariaDB on new computer,
stopped Mysql service
renamed data folder to data-
I solved my problem copying just
Mysql\data\table_folders and ibdata1
from crashed HD MySql data Folder to the new installed mysql data folder.
I Skipped ib_logfile0 and ib_logfile1 (otherwise the server did not start service)
Started mysql service.
Then server is running.
Same exact problem after TimeMachine backup import. My solution was to stop the MySQL server and fix read-write permissions on the ib* files.
One other answer I think is worth bringing up here (because I came here with that same problem and this turned out to be the answer for me):
Double check that the table name in your query is spelled exactly the same as it is in the database.
Kind of an obvious, newbie thing, but things like "user" vs "users" can trip people up and I thought it would be a helpful answer to have in the list here. :)
In my case, when I was importing the exported sql file, I was getting an error like table doesn't exist for the create table query.
I realized that there was an underscore in my database name and mysql was putting an escape character just before that.
So I removed that underscore in the database name, everything worked out.
Hope it helps someone else too.
Here is another scenario (version upgrade):
I reinstalled my OS (Mac OS El Captain) and installed a new version of mysql (using homebrew). The installed version (5.7) happened to be newer than my previous one. Then I copied over the tables, including the ib* files, and restarted the server. I could see the tables in mysql workbench but when I tried to select anything, I got "Table doesn't exist".
Solution:
stop the mysql server e.g. mysql.server stop or brew services stop mysql
start the server using mysqld_safe --user=mysql --datadir=/usr/local/var/mysql/ (change path as needed)
run mysql_upgrade -u root -p password (in another terminal window)
shut down the running server mysqladmin -u root -p password shutdown
restart the server in normal mode mysql.server start or brew services start mysql
Relevant docs are here.
My table had somehow been renamed to ' Customers' i.e. with a leading space
This meant
a) queries broke
b) the table didn't appear where expected in the alphabetical order of my tables, which in my panic meant I couldn't see it!
RENAME TABLE ` Customer` TO `Customer`;
In my case it was SQLCA.DBParm parameter.
I used
SQLCA.DBParm = "Databse = "sle_database.text""
but it must be
SQLCA.DBParm = "Database='" +sle_database.text+ "'"
Explaination :
You are going to combine three strings :
1. Database=' - "Database='"
2. (name of the database) - +sle_database.text+
3. ' - "'" (means " ' " without space)
Don't use spaces in quatermarks.
Thank to my colleague Jan.
Go to :xampp\mysql\data\dbname
inside dbname have tablename.frm and tablename.ibd file. remove it
and restart mysql and try again.
I had the same issue in windows.
In addition to copying the ib* files and the mysql directory under thd data directory, I also had to match the my.ini file.
The my.ini file from my previous installation did not have the following line:
innodb-page-size=65536
But my new installation did. Possibly because I did not have that option in the older installer.
I removed this and restarted the service and the tables worked as expected.
In short, make sure that the new my.ini file is a replica of the old one, with the only exception being the datadir, the plugin-dir and the port#, depending upon your new installation.
I'm having a very weird problem right now, I reinstalled Wamp server (same version, same folder, everything is the same). But after I reinstalled it, my database got damaged. It shows that I don't have tables in my database even though the tables still show when I open my database on the left sidebar. Trying to exporting and importing the database only creates an empty database. I sadly didn't create a backup because I reinstalled wamp multiple times before without it damaging any fields or databases.
Here's a screenshot (My database's name is asd) :
http://i.imgur.com/5PKKXgK.png
Is there any way to repair this database ?
The last time I had that, I had to change ownership. This is how I did it in Linux.
chown -R mysql:mysql /var/lib/mysql/
In windows you can right-click the mysql database folder, in you case
C:\wamp\bin\mysql\mysql5.6.17\data\asd
And then go to Security Make sure all permissions are OK.
Then you can go to Advanced > Owner and make sure ownership,
I just had this problem, and all I had to do was restart the database.
Is it possible to duplicate a MySQL database from their files? [I know mysqldump would be the best method to duplicate a db, but that's not possible as all we have is the backed up files from the mysql folder].
We have the ibdata1 file, the ib_log* files, and the full directories for the three db's we want to restore from the backed up files (folders seem to contain all needed frm and par files). Obviously already tried just to copy all the files into /var/lib/mysql and though it appeared the structure was intact attempts to access the data were unsuccessful.
i.e. show databases will show the db's, use dbname works, and show tables properly displays the tables, but when trying to access the data from [any] table (via query) it says ERROR 1146 (42S02): Table 'dbname.dbtable' doesn't exist - despite mysql having happily showed us the table does exist when we did show tables.
Should also point out the service was stopped prior to copying files and all files chown'ed to have mysql as owner and then the service restarted prior to attempting to access the data.
To answer your question indirectly, there is some information here regarding setting up replication using a raw file copy. So I guess the answer is possibly yes, but it may depend.
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/replication-howto-rawdata.html
Not wishing to add to your current pain, but were you relying on a backup that you have never tried / don't know how to restore?
I changed the datadir of a MySQL installation and all the bases moved correctly except for one.
I can connect and USE the database. SHOW TABLES also returns me all the tables correctly, and the files of each table exists on the MySQL data directory.
However, when I try to SELECT something from the table, I get an error message that the table does not exist. Yet, this does not make sense since I was able to show the same table through SHOW TABLES statement.
My guess is that SHOW TABLES lists file existence but does not check whether a file is corrupted or not. Consequently, I can list those files but not access them.
Nevertheless, it is merely a guess. I have never seen this before. Now, I cannot restart the database for testing, but every other application that uses it is running fine.
But that's just a guess, I've never seen this before.
Does anyone know why this is happening?
Example:
mysql> SHOW TABLES;
+-----------------------+
| Tables_in_database |
+-----------------------+
| TABLE_ONE |
| TABLE_TWO |
| TABLE_THREE |
+-----------------------+
mysql> SELECT * FROM TABLE_ONE;
ERROR 1146 (42S02): Table 'database.TABLE_ONE' doesn't exist
Just in case anyone still cares:
I had the same issue after copying a database directory directly using command
cp -r /path/to/my/database /var/lib/mysql/new_database
If you do this with a database that uses InnoDB tables, you will get this crazy 'table does not exist' error mentioned above.
The issue is that you need the ib* files in the root of the MySQL datadir (e.g. ibdata1, ib_logfile0 and ib_logfile1).
When I copied those it worked for me.
For me on Mac OS (MySQL DMG Installation) a simple restart of the MySQL server solved the problem. I am guessing the hibernation caused it.
I get this issue when the case for the table name I'm using is off. So table is called 'db' but I used 'DB' in select statement. Make sure the case is the same.
This error can also occur when setting lower_case_table_names to 1, and then trying to access tables that were created with the default value for that variable. In that case you can revert it to the previous value and you will be able to read the table.
I don't know the reason but in my case I solved just disabling and enabling the foreign keys check
SET FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS=0;
SET FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS=1;
stop mysqld
backup mysql folder: cp -a /var/lib/mysql /var/lib/mysql-backup
copy database folder from old machine to /var/lib/mysql
override ib* (ib_logfile* , ibdata ) from old database
start mysqld
dump dabase
mysqldump >dbase.mysql
stop mysql service
remove /var/lib/mysql
rename /var/lib/mysql-backup to /var/lib/mysql
start mysqld
create the database
mysqldump < dbase.mysql
Please run the query:
SELECT
i.TABLE_NAME AS table_name,
LENGTH(i.TABLE_NAME) AS table_name_length,
IF(i.TABLE_NAME RLIKE '^[A-Za-z0-9_]+$','YES','NO') AS table_name_is_ascii
FROM
information_schema.`TABLES` i
WHERE
i.TABLE_SCHEMA = 'database'
Unfortunately MySQL allows unicode and non-printable characters to be used in table name.
If you created your tables by copying create code from some document/website, there is a chance that it has zero-width-space somewhere.
I had the same problem and I searched for 2-3 days, but the solution for me was really stupid.
Restart the mysql
$ sudo service mysql restart
Now tables become accessible.
I have just spend three days on this nightmare. Ideally, you should have a backup that you can restore, then simply drop the damaged table. These sorts of errors can cause your ibdata1 to grow huge (100GB+ in size for modest tables)
If you don't have a recent backup, such as if you relied on mySqlDump, then your backups probably silently broke at some point in the past. You will need to export the databases, which of course you cant do, because you will get lock errors while running mySqlDump.
So, as a workaround, go to /var/log/mysql/database_name/ and remove the table_name.*
Then immediately try to dump the table; doing this should now work. Now restore the database to a new database and rebuild the missing table(s). Then dump the broken database.
In our case we were also constantly getting mysql has gone away messages at random intervals on all databases; once the damaged database were removed everything went back to normal.
Try to run sql query to discard tablespace before copying idb-file:
ALTER TABLE mydatabase.mytable DISCARD TABLESPACE;
Copy idb-file
ALTER TABLE mydatabase.mytable IMPORT TABLESPACE;
Restart MySql
O.k. this is going to sound pretty absurd, but humor me.
For me the problem got resolved when I changed my statement to this :
SELECT * FROM `table`
I made two changes
1.) Made the table name lower case - I know !!
2.) Used the specific quote symbol = ` : It's the key above your TAB
The solution does sound absurd, but it worked and it's Saturday evening and I've been working since 9 a.m. - So I'll take it :)
Good luck.
What worked for me, was just dropping the table, even though it didnt exist. Then I re created the table and repopulated from an sql dump done previously.
There must be some metabase of table names, and it was most likely still existing in there till i dropped it.
Had a similar problem with a ghost table. Thankfully had an SQL dump from before the failure.
In my case, I had to:
Stop mySQL
Move ib* files from /var/mysql off to a backup
Delete /var/mysql/{dbname}
Restart mySQL
Recreate empty database
Restore dump file
NOTE: Requires dump file.
I had this problem after upgrading WAMP but having no database backup.
This worked for me:
Stop new WAMP
Copy over database directories you need and ibdata1 file from old WAMP installation
Delete ib_logfile0 and ib_logfile1
Start WAMP
You should now be able to make backups of your databases. However after your server restarts again you will still have problems. So now reinstall WAMP and import your databases.
After having to reinstall MySQL I had this same problem, it seems that during the install, some configuration files that store data about the InnoDB log files, these files ib_logfile* (they are log files right?), are overwriten. To solve this problem I just deleted the ib_logfile* files.
Do mysqldump to database:
mysqldump -u user -ppass dbname > D:\Back-ups\dbname.sql
Restore database
mysql -u user -ppass dbname < D:\Back-ups\dbname.sql
Now all tables in database were restored completely. Try..
SELECT * FROM dbname.tablename;
It appears that the issue has to do (at least in mine and a few others) with invalid (corrupt?) innodb log files. Generally speaking, they simply need to be recreated.
Here are solutions, most of which require a restart of mysql.
Recreate your log files (Delete and restart mysql)
Resize your log files (MySql 5.6+ will regenerate the file for you)
If you are doing some type of a data migration, make sure you have correctly migrated the right file and given it permissions as others have already stated
Check permissions of your data and log files, that mysql is owner of both
If all else fails, you will likely have to recreate the database
In my case, i had defined a trigger on the table and then was trying to insert the row in table. seems like, somehow trigger was erroneous, and hence insert was giving error, table doesn't exist.
Copy only ibdata1 file from your old data directory. Do not copy ib_logfile1 or ib_logfile0 files. That will cause MySQL to not start anymore.
Came cross same problem today. This is a mysql "Identifier Case Sensitivity" issue.
Please check corresponding data file. It is very likely that file name is in lower case on file system but table name listed in "show tables" command is in upper case. If system variable "lower_case_table_names" is 0, the query will return "table not exist" because name comparisons are case sensitive when "lower_case_table_names" is 0.
Its possible you have a hidden character in your table name. Those don't show up when you do a show tables. Can you do a "SHOW CREATE TABLE TABLE_ONE" and tab complete the "TABLE_ONE" and see if it puts in any hidden characters. Also, have you tried dropping and remaking the tables. Just to make sure nothing is wrong with the privileges and that there are no hidden characters.
I installed MariaDB on new computer,
stopped Mysql service
renamed data folder to data-
I solved my problem copying just
Mysql\data\table_folders and ibdata1
from crashed HD MySql data Folder to the new installed mysql data folder.
I Skipped ib_logfile0 and ib_logfile1 (otherwise the server did not start service)
Started mysql service.
Then server is running.
Same exact problem after TimeMachine backup import. My solution was to stop the MySQL server and fix read-write permissions on the ib* files.
One other answer I think is worth bringing up here (because I came here with that same problem and this turned out to be the answer for me):
Double check that the table name in your query is spelled exactly the same as it is in the database.
Kind of an obvious, newbie thing, but things like "user" vs "users" can trip people up and I thought it would be a helpful answer to have in the list here. :)
In my case, when I was importing the exported sql file, I was getting an error like table doesn't exist for the create table query.
I realized that there was an underscore in my database name and mysql was putting an escape character just before that.
So I removed that underscore in the database name, everything worked out.
Hope it helps someone else too.
Here is another scenario (version upgrade):
I reinstalled my OS (Mac OS El Captain) and installed a new version of mysql (using homebrew). The installed version (5.7) happened to be newer than my previous one. Then I copied over the tables, including the ib* files, and restarted the server. I could see the tables in mysql workbench but when I tried to select anything, I got "Table doesn't exist".
Solution:
stop the mysql server e.g. mysql.server stop or brew services stop mysql
start the server using mysqld_safe --user=mysql --datadir=/usr/local/var/mysql/ (change path as needed)
run mysql_upgrade -u root -p password (in another terminal window)
shut down the running server mysqladmin -u root -p password shutdown
restart the server in normal mode mysql.server start or brew services start mysql
Relevant docs are here.
My table had somehow been renamed to ' Customers' i.e. with a leading space
This meant
a) queries broke
b) the table didn't appear where expected in the alphabetical order of my tables, which in my panic meant I couldn't see it!
RENAME TABLE ` Customer` TO `Customer`;
In my case it was SQLCA.DBParm parameter.
I used
SQLCA.DBParm = "Databse = "sle_database.text""
but it must be
SQLCA.DBParm = "Database='" +sle_database.text+ "'"
Explaination :
You are going to combine three strings :
1. Database=' - "Database='"
2. (name of the database) - +sle_database.text+
3. ' - "'" (means " ' " without space)
Don't use spaces in quatermarks.
Thank to my colleague Jan.
Go to :xampp\mysql\data\dbname
inside dbname have tablename.frm and tablename.ibd file. remove it
and restart mysql and try again.
I had the same issue in windows.
In addition to copying the ib* files and the mysql directory under thd data directory, I also had to match the my.ini file.
The my.ini file from my previous installation did not have the following line:
innodb-page-size=65536
But my new installation did. Possibly because I did not have that option in the older installer.
I removed this and restarted the service and the tables worked as expected.
In short, make sure that the new my.ini file is a replica of the old one, with the only exception being the datadir, the plugin-dir and the port#, depending upon your new installation.
One of my clients complained that his database disappeared without any reason. I guess he must have dropped the database by mistake. But I just want to make sure that this can not happen automatically. The ibdata and iblog files are there but the directory (for e.g. company) is missing.
It does not happen automatically. If you log the SQL queries (bin log, for example) you can search if there was a "drop database" query.
if you properly manage your database permissions then this should not be possible, only give drop DB access to root or to your superuser.