MySQL server has gone away – how to get it back
Has MySQL/MariaDB server ever run away from you? If it hasn’t, you’re lucky or you’re likely to use PostgreSQL instead. Today I’m trying to restore a database from backup (database dump) onto a new MariaDB server. This is what happened: The database size is 1.7G, and this should not surprised a database administrator. But it did surprise me because: firstly I’m not a db admin, and secondly I had this issue before just a few weeks ago....