Working on operating systems can be a lot of fun while learning some of the most difficult concepts in programming. One needs to have a basic set of knowledge and skills such as
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MySQL 5.1 General Availability has been released to the public. While many recommend using it and other don’t, Michael Widenius (Founder and original developer of MySQL) says it might not be worth it yet to upgrade your production databases.
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There are such times when MySQL replication stops when you run certain updates on the master and the slave fails. Like for example you may have run a create table or an alter table on the master and further inserts but these DDLs get skipped and the inserts into these non-existent tables cause the slave to error out and stop.
A simple way out of this is to run the missing DDLs on the slave and push the counter by a step. This is not recommended as this might cause data inconsistency.
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