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Akshay Suryawanshi
Akshay Suryawanshi joined Percona in March 2013. He began his role as a Support Engineer and then moved to the fast-growing Remote DBA team. Before joining Percona he worked as a MySQL DBA managing more than a dozen clients. He specializes in MySQL internals especially InnoDB. Akshay has a Bachelor of Science in Information technology and is OCP certified in MySQL. He currently resides in Mumbai, India

Renaming database schema in MySQL

One of the routine tasks for a DBA is MySQL renaming database schemas, and as such MySQL added a command to carry out that purpose called “RENAME DATABASE <database_name>”. However, this command just made it through a few minor releases before being discontinued (from MySQL 5.1.7 to 5.1.23). Here’s a link to the reference manual […]