A couple of months ago I migrated to another mysql server, and I did an export and import through the phpMyAdmin web interface. I just realized that I just lost all the "creation dates" for multiple tables, as they all got overwritten with what I believe is the date of the import operation.
Not a big deal right now, as it's all still development test data, but this would've been a massive loss during production (if I ever needed to migrate again).
Any ideas as to why this happened, or how to prevent it from happening again? As I mentioned in the title, the columns' 'type' were all set to Datetime, 'default' set to CURRENT_TIMESTAMP, and I just noticed that 'extra' is set to DEFAULT_GENERATED (this might be an indication of the problem, as I've never seen this before).
Note: Current version is 8.0.20, and I believe the older server was on 5.6. Also, I'm pretty sure I left alone all the export/import settings. I remember the import threw a complaint, but I believe it had something to do with the default sql tables.
So, I just looked into the .sql file that was generated by the Export, and I can see the INSERT INTO (..) VALUES (...)
doesn't include the creation_date
column or any of its data. So something must've been wrong on export. Any ideas what to look for on my next export?
Thanks all for the comments. This is the info at the top of the .sql
file:
-- phpMyAdmin SQL Dump
-- version 4.8.5
-- https://www.phpmyadmin.net/
--
-- Host: 127.0.0.1:3306
-- Generation Time: Mar 24, 2021 at 07:42 PM
-- Server version: 8.0.20
-- PHP Version: 7.3.11
So it seems I exported from 8.0.20...weird, I was sure it was 5.6. Anyway, the problem seems to be exactly what @Solarflare mentioned, and seems to be fixed on a new version of phpMyAdmin.