MySql Lost...

[Lance F. Squire]

Robert Brockway wrote:
> Can you login to mysql using the username/password that your app is using?
> 
> eg:
> 
> mysql -u bob -p
> 
> See if you can see the database:
> 
> show databases;
> 

Shows no such database...

> If so, try to go into the database:
> 
> use yourdatabasename;
> 
> If it is really gone then you can recover from a mysql dump file if you 
> have one.  I normally run mysqldump daily to get a text dump of the DB 
> and then make sure it is caught in the backup.
> 
> Rob
> 

I normly keep dumps of my Postgres dbs too. Unfortunatly, I inhereted 
this situation.

Lance
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