Question

I need to merge any missing rows in a production mysql database from a backup database on restored to the same machine.

How can I do this whilst preserving the original primary key id’s which are auto increment.

Answer 1

You can try:

INSERT IGNORE INTO table_1 SELECT * FROM table_2;

which allows those rows in table_1 to supersede those in table_2 that have a matching primary key, while still inserting rows with new primary keys.

Alternatively,

REPLACE INTO table_1 SELECT * FROM table_2;

will update those rows already in table_1 with the corresponding row from table_2, while inserting rows with new primary keys.