Re: Table update: restore or replace?

On 5/14/19 2:19 PM, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Tue, 14 May 2019, Adrian Klaver wrote:
>
>> Does the table you overwrote the data change much?
>
> Adrian,
>
> Yes. It's in my business tracking database so it's updated almost every
> day.
>
>> If not it might be safer to just fetch it from the April 20th dump and
>> then apply the changes since then.
>
> The column I FUBAR'd holds e-mail addresses. What I'll do is set all to
> NULL
> and find the e-mail addresses I have external to the database and enter
> them
> in a large UPDATE TABLE.

Or just fetch them from the table data you have saved in the dump file.

>
> And I think I'll set up a cron job to do a database dump each day with the
> date appended to the file name in the bash shell script.

Yeah, that will save a lot of heartburn:)

>
> Thanks,
>
> Rich
>
>

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Adrian Klaver
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