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A high level abstraction provided by Entity Framework sometimes challenges developers in accessing a full set of features available via native SQL of a particular database server. This article will help you to cope with usage of collation in MySQL to control case sensitivity settings in generated queries.

Collation defines an order through the process of comparing two given character strings and deciding which should come before the other.
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Often we make some sketches of the database we plan to create on a blackboard or a sheet of paper before we actually design its structure on computer. After that we discuss the entities we’ve got, normalize them and repeat these actions several times. As a result we get a completely approved database structure in the form of an image file in the project documentation.

Question:
How to create a database diagram basing on the image available?

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Protecting information in databases and possibility to restore databases in case of need is the highest priority task in many companies. But not all DBMSs have built-in tools for data protection (tools to backup and restore databases). And MySQL is one of such DBMSs.

Making database backups is one of the most important things in the process of administrating MySQL databases, because some critical data loss can be irreplaceable.

The task of making daily mysql backup can be solved with the help of the backup database function of dbForge Studio for MySQL. To use it, you should setup backup in the wizard manually and schedule making backups.

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When working with databases it is always necessary to import data or schemas. In this article we describe the process of importing data from a text file into a MySQL database, and also we discuss questions concerning problems with MySQL import and the ways of solving these problems. We will give a detailed description of the Data Import tool of dbForge Studio for MySQL, describe the capabilities of this tool and illustrate its usage.

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Not a long time ago we started to write auto-tests for testing our new product –
dbForge Data Compare for Oracle. To recreate a schema in Oracle all user sessions should be killed.

To achieve this we’ve written the following PL/SQL script:

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MySQL is frequently referred to as a database for Web applications. Partially it is really so, because MySQL became popular owing to its simplicity, high speed, and bounding with PHP. Developers of small Web projects often choose MySQL as a back end of their sites. Does this mean that MySQL can be used only for small databases? Not at all. There are lots of databases size of data in which is measured in gigabytes. Besides MySQL servers are frequently clustered to increase their performance. When a DBAs work with large amounts of data, they frequently have to make backup copies correctly and effectively, i. e. to export MySQL databases to SQL (or MySQL backup). It is extremely important to import MySQL database from SQL correctly is when restoring a corrupted database and when migrating a database from one server to another.

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dbForge Studio for MySQL has the Database Designer functionality that allows you to build and view the structure of your database using the diagrams. You can read more about it in Getting Started with Database Designer article.

Database Designer also can save a database diagram as an image.

Saving Database Diagram as an image

To save database diagram as an image, perform the following steps:

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