Category: Howto - MySQL

Convert all Tables to InnoDB

Some time ago I was in the situation where I was looking at 200 MyISAM tables screaming to get converted to InnoDB for performance reasons. You probably know that MyISAM is better at fulltext searches and such, but what I needed was this database stop locking entire tables when I was just doing row-level interactions. Here's how I did in one go.

Access MySQL without Password

If you want to do command-line MySQL administration like restoring databases or dumping statistics, you need the root account and it's password. Or do you?

Boost MySQL Performance by 1200%

Sorry folks, this article was based on flawed benchmark results, I will soon post an update!