DB Madness
Note to self: don’t mess with upgrades not pertinent to project at hand.
I was in the middle of creating a simple web database app when I fancied I should upgrade my MySQL a step up from what I had. It turns out that the upgrade didn’t go so smoothly so I was forced to initialize the database server, causing me to lose all my data stored in my databases. Now I’m finding that in order to move forward I need to install the Perl DBI module, which I’m sure will come in handy for future projects, but will more likely now lead to another set of cascading steps of upgrading other things, which is not what I want to do right now. I just want to get back to working on my database app! Aaarrghh…
Update: I avoided having to do all of that by just deleting the MySQL install and repeating the install process. So now I’ve got MySQL up and running (yay!), but now I have to repopulate my databases (boo).
September 1st, 2005 at 9:22 pm
Haha! I can relate though yours is a more complex situation. I did my MT upgrade last night when I could have gone to sleep instead. Now comments are not working but I’ve decided to wait it out until I get answers. Good news: I’m not the only who has this problem. Bad news: I didn’t back up my files.
September 2nd, 2005 at 9:40 am
Yikes. Hope you didn’t lose your entries.
About your interest in WordPress, maybe you can do an install of WordPress and experiment on it and see if you like it. One good thing about WordPress is there’s no rebuilding whatsoever.