# How can I get Pt-table-checksum to show diffs?

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**Created:** [September 4, 2012, 7:41am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/how-can-i-get-pt-table-checksum-to-show-diffs/2581 "2012-09-04T07:41:30Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 14, 2012, 4:51am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/how-can-i-get-pt-table-checksum-to-show-diffs/2581/3 "2012-09-14T04:51:21Z")

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Tried again, but it simply does not work for me. But I see that .

Both Master and Slave have MySQL version: 5.1.36-community-log

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> Can you try again to check that pt-table-checksum can able to connect to slave or not?

As far as I have understood has to connect to the Master server only. Am I mistaken?

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