From: Martijn Tonies
Date: October 18 2005 1:51pm
Subject: Re: ALTER TABLE - how to fix truncated data?
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Gleb,

> I don't think that it is possible to recover the data from the new
> table, because ALTER operation creates a new table and fills it with
> data (and truncates the data). But why did the system backup not help
> you? Could you describe the situation more in detail. If you haven't
> flushed you binary logs, you may want to make an attempt to recover the
> data from them.

As a sidenote - shouldn't MySQL raise an error when data gets truncated?

If the truncation happens silently, chances are you'll never find out until
someone does a report or whatever?!

With regards,

Martijn Tonies
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