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Error dropping database in MySQL 5.1 on Ubuntu

I am using MySQL v5.1 on Ubuntu machine. I have a database named my_db which I would like to drop it, so I execute command: mysql> drop database my_db; ERROR 1010 (HY000): Error dropping ...
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Restart MySQL server

I am using MySQL v5.1 on Ubuntu machine. MySQL on my machine used to work. (Running mysql -u root gave me the MySQL command line.) This afternoon, I did the following thing: 1. check active process ...
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MySql: LOAD DATA INFILE

I am using MySQL v5.1 on Ubuntu machine. MySQL data directory is /var/lib/mysql/ I have a test.dat file located on /var/lib/mysql/tmp/test.dat I would like to load data from the test.dat file into ...
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dump out some tables of the database

I am using MySQL v5.1 on Ubuntu machine. I have a database named db_test which contain tables like cars, customers, departments, prices , and so on. I know I can use the following commands to dump ...
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Can I copy a MySQL database by copying the files? What do the files contain exactly?

I am using MySQL database and using an Ubuntu Linux machine. My database named db_test , I notice that under path /var/lib/mysql/db_test ,there are files suffix with .frm, .MYD, .MYI like following: ...