Fix Table index corruption in Mysql


There are various reasons for the corruption in the MySql database. Corruption due to damage of index is also one of the reasons.

If you are getting the error message whenever you are trying to access MySQL database--

“[Incorrect file format 'TABLENAME']”

After this error message, you are not able to access your database. Database becomes inaccessible. Reason for this error message is the corruption in database due to the damage of table index.

A table index generally created at the time of creation of table. A table index is the set of pointers that point particular rows in table. This is generally used to improve the performance of database by increasing the speed of the MySQL queries.

Due to any kind of reason like virus attack, improper use of application, frequent queries etc MySQL table get corrupted and become inaccessible. After fixing the corruption you can make it accessible and get access on data stored in it. This is become very important and needed steps to save out the data stored in the table because once it gets inaccessible you are become to lose data stored in the table.

If you are having recent updated backup then restore the data by creating new table but if you are not having backup then repair corrupted table and solve the problem.

You can easily resolve this issue with the help of phpMyAdmin. To do this follows these steps—

  1. With the correct Username and Password login to phpMyAdmin.
  2. Select the MySQL table which is corrupted.
  3. Enter this code

repair table employee use_frm;

Now Replace “TABLENAME” with the actual table name and execute the query. This forces the index to be rebuilt from the database file.

After following these steps you can easily repair corrupted table. However, if the above process fails then to repair corrupted MySQl table you can take help from the professional third party MySQL repair software which can easily repair corrupted table and recover data. This is the powerful and professional tool which you can use to repair corrupted MySQL database table without affecting any data stored in it.