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createdb: could not connect to database postgres: FATAL: could not write init file

RedHat Enterprise Server 3.0 32 Bits psql (PostgreSQL) 8.2.3 user: postgres server is running: /soft/postgres/8.2.3/bin/pg_ctl start pg_ctl: another server may be running; trying to start server ...
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Can I find out what version of MySQL from the data files?

I have a very odd situation going on here. I had a linux box running ubuntu 8.10 and MySQL server with a Wordpress installation on it hosting an internal blog for our company. The machine that this ...
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How to avoid lagging when enabling log-slave-updates?

Master: 48GB RAM 16-core my.cnf: https://clbin.com/hlkUo Slave: 64GB RAM 24-core my.cnf: https://clbin.com/viLm0 Both are running 5.5.28. For the incremental backup purpose, I need to enable ...
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mysqld dead but subsys locked

I'm executing the following command in a shell script and I'm executing this on an RHEL-6 server and MySQL version 5.1.47- mysqld_safe --defaults-extra-file=/custom/path/of/my.cnf The path of ...
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Database creation on Linux with dbca: “command not found”

I have installed an Oracle on my machine. When I open a session with VNCServer and type dbca, either as root or as oracle, I get these errors: -bash : -dbca : Command Not found Xlib: connection to ...
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mysqldump: Got error: 1017: Can't find file: 'drupal_install_test' (errno: 2) when using LOCK TABLES

I'm trying to backup a drupal site database but I'm having some issues. When I ran the following command: mysqldump -uroot -p drupaSite > drupaSite.sql I get the following error: mysqldump: Got ...
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How can I automate copying DB2 table data between remote Servers?

I have two IBM DB2 servers at separate remote locations. I need to copy data from several tables on one database on the first server to another database in the second server. Previously I've used ...
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which process has created a load spike on my server last week?

O.S.:Linux MYSQL server we got a load spike last week. how can I find the process that has created the load spike on my server last week.
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MySQL slave stuck in “Reading event from the relay log”?

5.5.28-log MySQL Community Server (GPL) by Remi binlog-format=MIXED My problem is similar to this question. *************************** 2. row *************************** Id: 973415 User: ...
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MySQL my.cnf won't take any effect

Update 7 As DerekDowney suggested, I tried to use [mysqld] init_connect=SET NAMES 'utf8' But I could not get the desired result. My client side java programme still says both session and global ...
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clusterdb stopped working for PostgreSQL database in Ubuntu 12.04 server

After a fresh PostgreSQL install (version 9.2) on my Ubuntu server 12.04, clusterdb utility stopped working. I used the same config files as I used with version 9.1. Below is the actual command: ...
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How to implement security model?

I have installed Oracle 11g on fedora 14. I connected with SQL*Plus as 'SYS' and created some tables, then created a user named "account" and a role, "payroll" with the following privileges. I ...
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How to properly kill MySQL?

I have CentOS 64bit with CPanel installed and I use service mysql stop However, it keeps doing ..... for minutes and it never stops. It used to be instant. Any idea why it does that and how to fix? ...
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How to properly kill MySQL? [duplicate]

I have CentOS 64bit with CPanel installed and I use service mysql stop However, it keeps doing ..... for minutes and it never stops. It used to be instant. Any idea why it does that and how to fix? ...
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How to copy MySQL Database from Linux to Windows?

I would like to copy a MySQL database form Linux to Windows, from a little research I found this url http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/howto-copy-mysql-database-remote-server.html where the author says we ...
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How open oracle DB Linux (After installation)

I have just installed Oracle 11gR2 on my Linux Mint Distro (xfce). All worked fine, and I was able to acces to https://localhost:1158/em [Erreur 102 (net::ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED) ] I rebooted my ...
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Is it okay to have different lower_case_table_names value on master and slave?

I have a OSX MySQL master with lower_case_table_names set to 2. I have just setup a Linux MySQL slave with lower_case_table_names=1. I haven't started replication on the slave, but everything looks ...
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Migrating database from OSX to Linux

I followed the setup in below link, to setup mysql. Basically, I am have a master on OS X server and want to setup a linux slave. Create a mysql slave database from master database After I copied ...
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issues with encoding and pg_dump/restore between windows and linux

I have a dmp file I have created using pg_dump encoded in WIN1252. What I would like to do is import it using pg_restore to a database on a Linux machine. The problem is that on the windows machine ...
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how to install zabbix agent in agent host which we are adding from server to monitor

following this site i have intsalled zabbix server and agent in centos 6.0 zabbix version :1.8.5 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKfYm-3thRM but i am unable to add agent that is how to add other ...
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Postgresql - Segmentation fault (core dumped)

I'm working on postgresql code (server side). I installed a version from source code following the official tutorial: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/interactive/install-short.html I did same ...
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Does a standby slow down Oracle imp?

I have Oracle 10gR2 installed on Redhat Linux 5.4 on two servers (primary and physical standby). When I import data into the primary server while the standby is started it takes too long to complete ...
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MySQL Tables crashing randomly

This is one of the many random Tables that get corrupted. Any ideas why and what would be causing this? How do I keep MySQL tables from crashing and MySQL from crashing? Repairing USR_wp537 ...
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Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2)! in Fedora16

I installed MariaDB server in linux using tar file(mariadb-5.5.28a-linux-i686.tar.gz) followed by the instructions from this link : https://kb.askmonty.org/en/installing-mariadb-binary-tarballs/. ...
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MongoDB Master and Slave Replication - Windows or Linux

I have recently moved my MS SQL Server Database to MongoDB (2.0) on Windows Server 2008. Its containing 2 databases with following stats. (both databases get around 100 reads/writes per second). These ...
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Open source alternative to SQLMaestro for PostgreSQL

I'm looking for oen source alternative to SQLMaestro for PostgreSQL because it has visual database designer which not avaliable in pgAdmin which make database desinging so easy. PS I'm not sure if ...
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Proper procedure for migrating a MySQL database to another Debian machine?

I have one server running an older Debian version with MySQL 5.x and a newer Debian server, also running MySQL. I've created a backup of all databases on the first server like so: mysqldump -uuser ...
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consequences of using “innodb_flush_method = O_DIRECT” without having a battery backed write cache? or on a KVM guest?

Mysql 5.5.29 Innodb- 128GB Ram - 32 cores - Raid 10 SSD. Our server which is a dedicated KVM guest on a 'baremetal' is hosting our heavy read-write DB server. Everything is file-per-table. ...
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Mysql synchronization databases on one machine

I have MySQL databases. Database A and Database B. Running on Mysql 5.5 and Ubuntu 12.04. Into Database A i am doing INSERTs, UPDATEs every minute (cron) (The whole database has over 15 millions ...
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Limit memory used for mongoDb

Is there any way to limit using RAM for mongodb on Debian? I'm looking for a solution fo about 8 hours, but have no results.
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mysql statement based replication - unsafe statements

I have recently set up statement based replication and my error logs are filling up with this error 121231 21:10:55 [Warning] Unsafe statement written to the binary log using statement format ...
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Freeware GUI tool for DB2 , usable in Ubuntu Linux

Are there any freeware user interface tools for DB2 to be used in Linux (Ubuntu 11.04)? RazorSQL is pretty good, but it's not freeware.
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how do I create a database and user? getting started with Oracle 10g xe [closed]

I keep getting database not open error whenever I try committing anything with the user \ as sysdba how do I get started, create a table, create a tablespace and a user?
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Set up replication and migrate to InnoDB with low downtime

Current situation is this: I have a large legacy DB using only MyISAM tables, the size of whole DB is 4GiB, one of the tables contains over 10 million rows, so it is pretty large. The database is ...
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Converting dbo file from windows to linux

I have a .dbo file which is created from windows. This file is succesfully reloaded into the mysql database in windows. I need to reload the dbo file into the mysql/mariadb database in linux. How I ...
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Server load discrepency in Slave with Master load being low and constant

We have MySQL Replication Master/Slave Setup db01 Master db02 Slave (ReadOnly) We are getting load discrepency on the Slave (db02), but the Master's (db01) server load is low. MySQL is the only ...
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what's the optimal partition setup for a linux db server?

My host wants to know how I want to partition my server before installing CentOS. I need to be able to do use xtrabackup to create quick backups from 20-50GB databases. I know I need to use a LVM, but ...
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Problem with SQL Server connection from a Linux machine [closed]

On a Linux machine, I run a java application that accesses a SQL Server instance on a Windows machine. When I run this application I get the below error: 07-Dec-2012 15:09:40 ...
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How to Restore Postgresql Cluster from data directory

in our office we have a development database server that runs Debian 5, on this server we had a postgresql 8.1 running but because of the lack of internet access from the server we backed up with ...
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sql*plus 11.2 client connection to oracle timing out on Linux

One of our DBAs is seeing connection issues with his sql*plus client. Whenever he connects to the Oracle v10g server, the connection seems to time out for no apparent reason. We tried checking ...
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User can't stop Oracle listener (TNS-01190)

I have Oracle 10g installed on RedHat Enterprise Linux 5. I have 2 users that use Oracle: uid=501(user1) gid=502(group1) groupes=500(oinstall),501(dba),502(group1) and uid=500(oracle) ...
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multiple postgreSQL running as primary server on pgpool

I'm facing problem with my pgpool setup. Currently, this is my requirement based on the pgpool documentation here : Server A : Install with PostgreSQL database. Run as primary server Server B : ...
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PostgreSQL 9.1 - Asynchroneous commits performance boost

During peak hours our users experience a lot of timeouts due to an overloaded database server. We are currently trying to make optimizations in order to cope with the high traffic. We read in the ...
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Choosing between MyISAM & InnoDB - two servers with related tables

I don't want to make a mistake. I am about to put my website online and I admit I haven't thought about which MySQL engine to choose: MyISAM or InnoDB. I read here and there that InnoDB should be ...
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Error connecting to DB

In regards to: http://serverfault.com/questions/442218/remounting-mysql-under-a-new-mount-point Everything is running. MySQL started but for websites they can not connect to the mysql database at ...
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Pgpool install - libpq is not installed or libpq is old

Based on the documentation here, I want to create a pgpool II with PostgreSQL databases. When I try to install, I encounter this error: configure: error: libpq is not installed or libpq is old ...
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How can I create a dblink from Postgresql 8.3 to SQL Server (2000 and 2008)?

I have a Postgresql database that need to read data from two SQL Servers (one SQL Server 2000 and one SQL Server 2008). I want to setup two dblinks to the SQL Servers. After googling, foruming, ...
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Connection to MySQL Remotely

I want to connect to MySQL Server hosted on a Linux Machine from my Windows Machine using Command Prompt with the following command: prompt>mysql -u root -p -h remote_hostname Connections, ...
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High Availability for postgresql

I'm new in PostgreSQL database. Recently our developer needed to do some upgrades in our systems. Because of that we are planning to implement some method in order to implement database failover. ...
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MYSQL database how to check if database is active and on which port (Linux)?

I got the server and on it is some mysql database TEST. I tried connected on it with my root account by using DBVisualizer but I keep getting could not connect check host name and port. I tried with ...

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