From: Dan Nelson Date: November 22 2006 2:37am Subject: Re: shutdown database but not mysqld List-Archive: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql/203465 Message-Id: <20061122023705.GC52642@dan.emsphone.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In the last episode (Nov 22), Alfred Mak said: > Can I shutdown one of the databases in MySQL but not the whole mysqld > process (i.e. keeping the other databases still running) ? "shutdown" would be the wrong word then :) How about revoking permissions (either at the mysql or the filesystem level) ? You could also flush tables, then rename the database directory somewhere out mysql's data directory. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@stripped