Title: Database Error
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Database Error

 *  Resolved [ashe](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ashe/)
 * (@ashe)
 * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-error-102/)
 * Hello.
 * I recently re-installed WordPress on my personal website back in January, and
   have kept it up-to-date ever since. The last time I updated was a little less
   than a week ago. Since then, it has been working just fine and in fact, as of
   earlier this afternoon, was loading correctly.
    However, I just signed turned
   on my computer about ten minutes ago and now it will not load. I get a blank 
   page titled “Database Error” that says “Error establishing a database connection”
   and after a refresh or two, it will intermittently swap between the Database 
   Error page and my site’s custom 404 page. I tried logging in via the wp-login
   portion of the site (just in case there’s a vital update I missed), but it just
   directs me to the error page, and I can’t log in.
 * Again, I have not made ANY updates (or even so much as logged in) since the last
   time I saw it up and running, so I have no idea how it could just go from working
   one minute and not working the next.
 * Please help me. I have no idea what I’m looking at here, and haven’t the slightest
   idea how to go about fixing it.
 * Link:
    [http://ashewednesday.com/blog](http://ashewednesday.com/blog)

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 *  Thread Starter [ashe](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ashe/)
 * (@ashe)
 * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-error-102/#post-3571058)
 * **UPDATE:** Okay… apparently between the time I logged on to wordpress.org and
   the time I clicked “post”, the problem managed to self-repair.
    Everything is
   looking just fine now and I have been able to log in with no problems.
 * Although, I am kind of curious as to why this happened in the first place. Is
   it just a common WordPress error? Or is there a plugin I can add that might prevent
   this from happening again?

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 * Last activity: [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-error-102/#post-3571058)
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