how to recover mysql table from .{MYI|MYD|frm} files?

[Rick Stevens]

On Mon, 2007-01-22 at 17:38 -0800, Robinson Tiemuqinke wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>  Here is a newbie on both Fedora Core and MySQL. I
> have my database corrupted and so data in one table is
> currently not playable.
> 
>  But fortunately I have the <tableName>.{MYI|MYD|frm}
> file saved accidently two days ago. should I just stop
> mysql and overwrite related files? or I have to play
> log files? 

I'd stop it first and try "myisamchk <name-of-table>".  See if that
fixes it first before doing anything more drastic.  You can add a "-v"
to the command for verbose output.  Have a look at the man page for
other options.

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