Recreate mysql database structure and stored procedures - mysql

I have a set of MYSQL tables on the development server that I need to place on the production server. How can I "recreate" all of them?
There are triggers present as well (I think). I need to recreate everything.

Use mysqldump to create a dump file that you can feed to mysql on the target server.
To make sure triggers get exported too, use the --triggers option. (Although I think those are included by default.)
To make sure stored procedures get exported too, use the --routines option. Note that (emphasis mine):
This option was added in MySQL 5.1.2. Before that, stored routines are not dumped. Routine DEFINER values are not dumped until MySQL 5.1.8. This means that before 5.1.8, when routines are reloaded, they will be created with the definer set to the reloading user. If you require routines to be re-created with their original definer, dump and load the contents of the mysql.proc table directly as described earlier.

Use mysqldump (documentation located here). If you do not specify tables it assumes all tables. You can also explicitly choose tables to copy or to ignore. You can tell it to create drop statements before your create statements. It takes cares of triggers but I forget if it takes care of routines, you'll have to take a look.

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How to update stored procedures in multiple databases in mysql

I am very new to mysql and I have I a situation where I need to update all my stored procedure in all my database. for example I have 10 database just say:
client_1,client_2,client_3,.....client_10.
Every database have same stored procedure just say:
proc_1,proc_2,proc_3,proc_4.
So if I made any changes to one of my stored procedure then it should get updated in all other database So that I don't have to do it manually.
I know the similar question have been asked but I am looking for some different approach. So what I want is some kind of mysql query or something like that in which we will pass the name of the database like:
client_1, client_3, client_8
and changes will only made to this databases.
I am using heidiSql- 10.2 with MySQL 5.6.
Thanks.
I am not entirely sure what you are wanting to do but I think you want something like this. First save the definition of your stored procedure to a file. Make sure it doesn't contain an schema references like client1.tableA. You want it to be able to run in any copy of your schema correctly. Be sure to follow the syntax rules defined by MySQL
Defining Stored Programs
Then once the stored procedure is saved you can use the mysql command line to run it for each client you want to update.
You would first connect to the database server using the mysql command line. Then issue a USE command to activate the first client database. Then run the script using the SOURCE command. See MySQL Batch Commands Then repeat for each client.
USE client1;
source c:\temp\storedProcedure.sql
USE client2;
source c:\temp\storedProcedure.sql
If this is not exactly what you needed hopefully it gives you some ideas to get you what you need.
Note that you could do the connection to the database and execute these commands via batch file instead of manually if you wanted to.
There are no statements in MySQL that create/drop/alter multiple procedures at once. You can only change one procedure at a time.
You can write an SQL script that includes a series of statements. But it's up to you to write that script.
You may write some script in Python (or other favorite language) that outputs the SQL script.
I don't know HeidiSQL, but I doubt it has any facility to apply the same change to many procedures. Nor does any other MySQL client that I'm aware of.

MySQL (5.7) drop stored procedures via mysql.proc

Summary: Can DELETE from mysql.proc be used safely from MySQL 5.7 onward?
In question Drop all stored procedures in MySQL or using temporary stored procedures, it was mentioned that in MySQL it is not possible to use DROP PROCEDURE inside a stored procedure (mysql error code 1357, "Can't drop or alter a %s from within another stored routine").
Empirically:
DELETE from mysql.proc WHERE db = <db-name> AND name LIKE '<procedure-prefix>%';
does seem to work fine instead.
In a comment, the question was asked (but not answered):
Is mysql.proc still a viable method of interacting with MySQL meta information in 5.7?
Even though I fully realise it is not "desirable", is it "OK" to use this in MySQL 5.7? Or, is there some vital stuff which DROP PROCEDURE does, such that I must not use this workaround?
The direct delete from the procs table does not seem to take an immediate effect in the current MySQL session.
The flush statement is used in MySQL to make the server reload stuff (changing the privileges directly via update / delete and the flush privileges is probably the best analogy). However, I could not find any versions of flush that would affect the stored procs based on the documentation. So, I do not think there is any way to make the deletion of the stored proc final in the current MySQL session.
The real danger with your direct deletion approach is that it relies on an undocumented feature of MySQL. This feature may change without any notice in a future version of MySQL, making an upgrade impossible. Also, without actually debugging MySQL itself, it is very difficult to say if your approach has any unintended side effects.
For these reasons, I would not recommend to use this approach in a production code. If it is a one-off exercise, then you may get away with it.

Trying to copy entire MySQL schema using SQL commands

After searching SO, I found answers to the following:
How to copy an entire MySQL schema using mysqldump
How to copy an entire MySQL schema using PHP
How to copy an entire MySQL schema using the enterprise edition of MySQL
How to copy an entire Microsoft SQL Server schema using the menus.
I also found a few hints about copying a MySQL schema using SQL commands.
My question: If I use the following SQL commands to copy a MySQL schema, what parts of the old schema would not be copied? Indexes? Constraints? Views? Anything else?
CREATE SCHEMA new_schema DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8;
CREATE TABLE new_schema.table1 LIKE old_schema.table1;
CREATE TABLE new_schema.table2 LIKE old_schema.table2;
CREATE TABLE new_schema.table3 LIKE old_schema.table3;
...;
INSERT INTO new_schema.table1 SELECT * FROM old_schema.table1;
INSERT INTO new_schema.table2 SELECT * FROM old_schema.table2;
INSERT INTO new_schema.table3 SELECT * FROM old_schema.table3;
...;
The CREATE TABLE ... LIKE will take care of indexes and constraints.
You should take care to SET FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS=0 while you run this, because if table1 has a foreign key to table2, then creating table1 will fail. Likewise inserting data into the tables in the wrong order will fail.
Your script does not cover:
Views
Triggers
Stored procedures
Stored functions
Events
There are no CREATE... LIKE... statements for these other objects. You'll have to use SHOW CREATE... and then run it against in the context of the new schema. See the various SHOW CREATE... statements here: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/show.html
I also caution that the way you INSERT INTO... SELECT FROM... will work, but can fill up your rollback segment if the table is very large. Tools like pt-archiver try to copy tables in batches, ascending along the primary key, to avoid this problem.
I think routines can't be copied directly with sql commands (as far as I know there's not such anything like create procedure myProc like old.myProc).
I would recommend you use mysqldump, since it takes care of copying everything, including the data (if you don't want to copy the data, you can use the -d switch to prevent creating the insert statements).
If you want to create a "template" (a database that is exactly like another database, but without the data), you can use the following:
mysqldump [connectionParameters] -d -R -v yourOldDatabase > databaseTemplate.sql
The options explained:
[connectionParameters]: host, user and password
-d: Don't copy data
-R: Include routines in the dump
-v: Output what mysqldump is doing to the console
You can open this "light" sql script to check how the objects were created.
Hope this helps

How can I edit a view in MySQL Workbench without it auto prefixing a database name to the tables/views used

When I create a view, I create it in the context of the default database. So none of my references to table have a prefix which explicitly specify a database. However, when I edit a view in Workbench it automatically adds the database prefix!
I don't want the database prefix because when I restore a database under a different name it causes the restore to fail.
Is this possible to stop the prefixing in a view edit or there another way to get round the restore issue?
see https://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=85176
The mysql 8.0.3 or above has been fixed
That's not possible. Views are stored in specific databases, not in some space "above" all databases. Consider following...
use playground_a; /*or whatever database*/
create view view_whatever as
select * from table_whatever;
use playground_b;
select * from view_whatever; /*here you will get an error that view_whatever does not exist*/
select * from playground_a.view_whatever; /*this works*/
That's why there will always be database prefixes in the view definition.
The only possibility I see, would be to use a stored procedure with a database name as parameter. In the procedure you'd use a prepared statement to execute a concated string of your query and the database name parameter. Of course this comes with downsides, like i.e. you can't add a where clause easily.
Creating the view without explicitely specifying a schema is a convenience feature. Behind the scenes the view is still saved in a specific schema (the default one in this case). When editing the source code is retrieved from the server which returns the real code (including the schema qualification). Hence already when you send the view code the association happens and cannot be removed again later.
Here is the command I use to create the backup:
mysqldump -u xxxxxx -pxxxxxx --routines database_a | gzip -9 > $FULLGZIPPATH
If you aren't easily able to update to MySQL 8.X then a workaround I've implemented was a post-processing step performed on the dump file itself prior to importing. I just remove the explicit prefixed db name, since the import process / view creation doesn't need it.
PowerShell -Command ^
"filter replace-dbname { $_ -replace '`<DB_NAME>`.`', '`' }"^
"Get-Content dump.sql -ReadCount 10 | replace-dbname | Add-Content replaced_dump.sql"
I've used PowerShell since I'm on Windows, but any scripting language will do. The only notes are that:
You'll need to do the replacement a-few-lines-at-a-time if you can't afford to read the entire dump into memory. Our dumps are about 11GB, which'd be a strain on our testing server's resources.
In my script I'm not doing an in-place string replacement, so it'll create a new dump file replaced_dump.sql alongside the original dump.sql. For me this was useful for diagnostics, because it meant if there was an issue, I didn't have to dump it again. Again, depending on your dump/disk size this might be an issue.
If your database happens to have `<DB_NAME>`.` as content in something like a text-field, this basic approach will also remove the string there as well.

MySQL database - backup problem

Hi I need to backup MySQL database and then deploy it on another MySQL server.
The problem is, I need it backup without data , just script which creates database, tables, procedures, users, resets autoincrements etc. ...
I tried MySQL administrator tool (Windows) and UNchecked "complete inserts check box", but it still created it ...
Thanks in advance
use mysqldump with option -d or --no-data
don't forget option -R to get the procedures
this page could help you: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/mysqldump.html
From within phpMyAdmin you can export the structure, with or without the data. The only thing I'm not sure of, is wether it exports users as well. If you like, I can test that tomorrow morning. It exports users too. You can check all sorts of options.
(source: obviousmatter.com)
According to the page, there isn't a good way to dump the routines and have them easily able to be recreated.
What they suggest is to dump the mysql.proc table directly. Including all the data.
Then use your myback.sql to restore the structure. Then restore the mysql.proc table with all of its data.
"... If you require routines to be re-created with their original timestamp attributes, do not use --routines. Instead, dump and reload the contents of the mysql.proc table directly, using a MySQL account that has appropriate privileges for the mysql database. ..."