MySQL is used by many organizations, entrepreneurs and individuals as the relational database system to provide multiuser access to multiple numbers of databases. There are many applications, which run on the MySQL data base and the database stores important financial, research and other business critical information in it. With a huge amount of valuable data in it, if at any point of time, you fail to access the MySQL database, the whole business may come to a standstill. The reason can be the corruption or damage of the database following any unexpected system shut down, virus attack, operating system malfunction, file system corruption or any other application contradiction etc. In any of the data loss or inaccessibility situation, you can use an efficient
MySQL repair utility to recover your precious data back.
Sometimes, you may have encountered a situation that you executed a query, but the MySQL database didnt respond and flashed an error message. The error can be read as below:
MySQL server has gone away
Causes:
The most possible causes behind the above problem can be listed as below:
The query may be too large or has a broken link.
The database connection may be closed and you are operating the query on it.
The client side connection may be closed.
The server connection has timed-out and hence the MySQL connection got closed.
The MySQL database table has been corrupted.
Resolution:
Carry out the below steps to resolve the issue:
Try to connect the database again and run the query.
If you fail, run the command: Optimize Table. If it displays the following error message, then perform the steps below the message:
ERROR 1030 (HY000): Got error 28 from storage engine
Add the below line to the my.cnf file
innodb_force_recovery=4
Stop the MySQL server and restore by pointing to the backup folder, the mysql folder.
Restart the MySQL database server and try the query again.
The above process may solve the problem. However, if it cannot, you need to look into your backup server to restore the database from a valid backup. But, in a situation, you do not have a valid backup with you, you need to take the help of a third-party recovery utility to
repair MySQL database and recover MySQL data back.
Stellar Phoenix MySQL Database Recovery is an wonderful utility to repair MySQL and restore the MySQL databases including that of the InnoDB and MyISAM tables. The software is compatible with almost all the Microsoft Windows operating systems, including Windows 7, Vista, Server 2003, XP, 2000 and is absolutely risk-free with respect to your data in the database.
