Question

I tried using the rename database command, but it fails with the following error. I don’t see an option to stop the RDS instance via the Amazon RDS console either.

mysql> rename database foo to foo_orig;
ERROR 1064 (42000): You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'database foo to foo_orig' at line 1

Answer 1

This statement was added in MySQL 5.1.7 but was found to be dangerous and was removed in MySQL 5.1.23.

From http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/rename-database.html

Is too little chance Amazon RDS using version less than 5.2.
If you have the access to mysql server, you can try :-

1. stop mysql daemon
2. go to the datadir
3. mv $old_name $new_name
4. restart mysql daemon
5. login to mysql database
6. update all the privileges for your $old_name to $new_name (under table mysql.db)
7. flush privileges