Saturday, July 3, 2010

Resolving data Files Are Corrupt Error Message

There are numerous instances when attempt to resolve one error message and result in complete corruption of your MySQL database. So, it always advisable not to troubleshoot an error message for which you have no knowledge. However, if you are already in such a situation, then a safe way to access your database records is by restoring them from an updated database backup. But, if in case, you have not created any backup or the backup file itself has been corrupted, then you will need to opt for advanced third-party Mysql Database Repair software.

To illustrate the above case, consider a scenario where you receive the below error message when you try to access your database records:

Cannot connect to localhost (100061)

On trying to resolve the above error message, you make some changes in the database structure, which further results in the corruption of your database. You can determine MySQL database corruption by viewing the logs of your database:

InnoDB: Database physically writes the file full: wait...
InnoDB: Cannot initialize created log files because
InnoDB: data files are corrupt, or new data files were
InnoDB: created when the database was started previous
InnoDB: time but the database was not shut down
InnoDB: normally after that.
090329 22:43:00 [ERROR] Default storage engine (InnoDB) is not available
090329 22:43:00 [ERROR] Aborting

Your database records become inaccessible after the above error message appears.

Resolution

To systematically repair your database and access its records, you will need to follow the below steps:

1.Check the level of database corruption using the below command:

mysqlcheck [options] dbname tablename [tablename2... ].

2.Use the below command to repair your database:

repair table tablename [,tablename1...][options]

While the repair command comprehensively repairs corrupted databases in most situations, the prospects of database corruption still exist. In such situations, the records stored in the database can be accessed by using powerful third-party Mysql Database Recovery software. Such repair applications are built by rich experienced data recovery experts and use advanced repairing mechanisms to repair your database. These MySQL Repair utilities are easy to understand and provide risk-free database repair.

Database Recovery For MySQL repairs and restores recovered databases built in MyISAM and InnoDB MySQL database storage engines on default or user-specified location. The MySQL Repair software supports Windows Vista, XP, 2003 and 2000 operating systems, and recovers lost tables, primary key(s), and relations, and similar database components.

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