Where can I find the MySQL transaction log?
Does MySQL keep a transaction log and if so where could I find it? A number of rows have mysteriously been deleted from a table and I want to try and see how and when it occurred. If you turned on - mysql can track binary log , which contains all the modifications (to be clear - it contains the queries that had changed something). But anyway, it is useless if you do not have the initial dump, which precedes the binlog turning on. Also i suppose if you made the dump and turned on binlog - you would not ask such question :-S http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/query-log.html http://dev.mysql