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Corrupting MySQL on purpose for testing

Corrupting MySQL on purpose for testing

2007-11-06       - By mos

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At 02:18 PM 11/6/2007, Richard Edward Horner wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I'm working on a program that will run in the event that tables are
>crashed or corrupt. Can anyone recommend a good method for crashing my
>tables or corrupting them so I have some test cases? I'm mostly
>interested in MyISAM and InnoDB table types.
>
>I was thinking I would just start an infinite loop with an UPDATE
>statement in it and then kill -9 the mysqld process.
>
>Any better ideas?

Sure, power off the computer or throw the breakers when doing updates to
simulate a power failure. That's sure to work. :)

Mike  

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