Mysql – slave issue with load data

Have you looked into the SELECT INTO OUTFILE syntax?

Here is a quote on the NULL string issue:

If the FIELDS ESCAPED BY character is empty, no characters are escaped and NULL is output as NULL, not \N. It is probably not a good idea to specify an empty escape character, particularly if field values in your data contain any of the characters in the list just given.

So make sure you indicate a FIELDS ESCAPED BY clause to get NULLs written as \N

Hope this helps

The traditional way would be to use pt-table-checksum and pt-table-sync

I like doing things a little different. I immediately run pt-table-sync with the --sync-to-master --print options.

Here is the --sync-to-master option

--sync-to-master

Treat the DSN as a slave and sync it to its master.

Treat the server you specified as a slave. Inspect SHOW SLAVE STATUS, connect to the server’s master, and treat the master as the source and the slave as the destination. Causes changes to be made on the master. Sets --wait to 60 by default, sets --lock to 1 by default, and disables --[no]transaction by default. See also --replicate, which changes this option’s behavior.

Here is the --print option

--print

Print queries that will resolve differences.

If you don’t trust pt-table-sync, or just want to see what it will do, this is a good way to be safe. These queries are valid SQL and you can run them yourself if you want to sync the tables manually.

This, if you do something like this:

echo "SET SQL_LOG_BIN=0;" > /root/SQLChanges.sql
pt-table-sync --print --sync-to-master h=10.1.2.30,u=username,p=password >> /root/SQLChanges.sql

The file /root/SQLChanges.sql will contain every change you need to execute on the Slave. Once you are satisfied with its contents, just execute the script on the Slave.

With regard to using LOAD DATA INFILE in Replication, @DTest answered this question about that. I further explained how mysql replicates LOAD DATA INFILE.