FLUSH LOGS;

Bring in a fresh copy of the database from the master-server and update the slave-server database. THIS IS IMPORTANT! Since if you don’t update the slave database, you will not have the data from the time you were disconnected until you reset the relay logs. So UPDATE YOUR SLAVE WITH THE LATEST DATABASE FROM THE MASTER!

Now when the logs are flushed,all the relay-bin logs will be deleted when the slave is started again. Usually, this fixes the problem, but when you start the slave and the failed relay log error is still there, now you have to do some more desperate measures… reset the slave. This is what I had to do to fully restore my MySQL slave server. Reseting the slaves restores all the settings to default… password, username, relay-log, port, table to replicate, etc… So better to have a copy of your settings first before actually do a slave reset. When your ready to rest the slave, do the command…

RESET SLAVE;

after which you should restore all your setting with a command something like…

CHANGE MASTER TO MASTER_HOST=.....

now start your server with…

SLAVE START;

check your slave server with…

SHOW SLAVE STATUS\G

look for …

Slave_IO_Running: Yes
Slave_SQL_Running: Yes

both should be YES, if not, check your syslog if there are other errors encountered. I’ll leave this until here since this is what I encountered and I was able to fix it.

e.g.
SELECT value FROM my_table WHERE my_id IN (’1, 2, 3′) is NOT equivalent to SELECT value FROM my_table WHERE my_id IN (’1′, ’2′, ’3′)

So, if you have a table containing values 1 to 3, the first query will return only 1 while the second query will return all values; 1, 2 and 3.

I Googled around and found out that MySQL does not have a native equivalent of PHP’s explode() function. Crap… I had to do it the hard war and create a MySQL stored function to ‘explode’ the values from its delimiter, query the right value from the other table using the exploded IDs, concat them back together and return them as a string.

Below is the function I was able to patch together from different codes I found in the MySQL forum. I added comments below as to make things clearer. I named the function splitAndTranslate since that’s what I was really trying to implement. You can make up your own modifications and function name.

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DELIMITER //
DROP FUNCTION IF EXISTS `splitAndTranslate` //
CREATE FUNCTION splitAndTranslate(str TEXT, delim VARCHAR(124))
RETURNS TEXT
DETERMINISTIC
BEGIN
	DECLARE i INT DEFAULT 0;	-- total number of delimiters
	DECLARE ctr INT DEFAULT 0;	-- counter for the loop
	DECLARE str_len INT;		-- string length,self explanatory
	DECLARE out_str text DEFAULT '';	-- return string holder
	DECLARE temp_str text DEFAULT '';	-- temporary string holder
  	DECLARE temp_val VARCHAR(255) DEFAULT '';	-- temporary string holder for query
 
	-- get length
	SET str_len=LENGTH(str);	
 
	SET i = (LENGTH(str)-LENGTH(REPLACE(str, delim, '')))/LENGTH(delim) + 1;	
		-- get total number delimeters and add 1
		-- add 1 since total separated values are 1 more than the number of delimiters
 
	-- start of while loop
	WHILE(ctr<i) DO
		-- add 1 to the counter, which will also be used to get the value of the string
		SET ctr=ctr+1; 
 
		-- get value separated by delimiter using ctr as the index
		SET temp_str = REPLACE(SUBSTRING(SUBSTRING_INDEX(str, delim, ctr), LENGTH(SUBSTRING_INDEX(str, delim,ctr - 1)) + 1), delim, '');
 
		-- query real value and insert into temporary value holder, temp_str contains the exploded ID    		
		SELECT <real_value_column> INTO temp_val FROM <my_table> WHERE <table_id>=temp_str;
 
		-- concat real value into output string separated by delimiter
    		SET out_str=CONCAT(out_str, temp_val, ',');
	END WHILE;
	-- end of while loop
 
	-- trim delimiter from end of string
	SET out_str=TRIM(TRAILING delim FROM out_str);
	RETURN(out_str);	-- return 
 
END//

After creating the stored function, you can now use it normally like any MySQL function inside a query. So what I now do with the new function is…

SELECT splitAndTranslate( g.comma_separated_ids ) real_values FROM my_group_table g;

Thanks to Chris Stubben in the MySQL Forum, I used and modified his code to fit my need.