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Asked: 2026-06-08T04:35:54+00:00

I am trying to understand a PHP – MySQL project. The Project is quite

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I am trying to understand a PHP – MySQL project. The Project is quite complex so exploring it line by line is quite impossible.

What I want to do is, compare the instances of a MySQL database.

Say,

1) MySQL is up and running. This is instance number one of the database.
2) A user logs in from PHP front end, and then logs out.
3) This is instance number two of the database.

I need to see what changed between instance one and instance two, in a friendly way.

Any suggestions regarding open source tools or any other techniques?

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  1. Editorial Team

    You could use mysqldump to take a snapshot of the database, do your login/log out and then dump the database again and use a tool like diff or winmerge to compare the changes.

    You could also turn on full query logging in mysql – this is just a single line to the config – http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/query-log.html

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