re: database corrupted after power switched off

[Victoria Reznichenko]

Tom,
Monday, October 28, 2002, 11:59:16 AM, you wrote:

TT> is it a normal behaviour that a sql databases gets corrupted if the power of
TT> the whole system will be switched off while an application is writing to the
TT> database ?

Yes. Other situations when tables may become corrupted are listed
here:
     http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/Corrupted_MyISAM_tables.html


TT> what can i do that this problem does no more appear ?

You have to shutdown MySQL server correctly, buy UPS :-)


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