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Uday Varagani

How pt-online-schema-change Handles Foreign Keys

Foreign key related issues are very common when dealing with DDL changes in MySQL using Percona toolkit. In this blog post, I will explain how the tool (pt-online-schema-change) handles foreign key constraints when executing a DDL change. First of all, I would like to explain why foreign keys have to be handled at all before […]

DDL Queries on Foreign Key Columns in MySQL/PXC

Recently, I received a support request where the customer wanted to convert an INTEGER column to BIGINT on two tables. These tables are related by a foreign key, and it is a 3 node PXC cluster. These tables are 20GB and 82 GB in size and DDL’s on such tables in a production environment is […]