Title: Database Error, Without the upgrade
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Database Error, Without the upgrade

 *  Resolved [bg2326](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bg2326/)
 * (@bg2326)
 * [18 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-error-without-the-upgrade/)
 * Okay, so I got this error in the categories area of admin to write a post or 
   page:
 * WordPress database error: [Unknown column ‘link_count’ in ‘where clause’]
    SELECT
   cat_ID FROM wp_categories WHERE category_parent = 0 AND ( link_count = 0 OR category_count!
   = 0 OR ( link_count = 0 AND category_count = 0 ) ) ORDER BY category_count DESC
 * After browsing the forum, I see that a lot of people had the same problem when
   they upgraded. My situation is a little different and maybe I do need to run 
   some sort of upgrade?
 * To make a long story short, I tried the one-click installation through Yahoo!
   Small Business, but it was full of bugs, so I decided to uninstall it, and install
   the current version of WP myself. Everything seemed to be working until I got
   the above mentioned error.
 * This post looked like it was going to have my answer:
    [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/115353](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/115353)
   Until I got to step #9 — I cannot find a table called wp_categories in my database
   folders….
 * Any ideas as to what to do? I have install WordPress to different hosts, so I
   am fairly familiar with it, but am stumped as to what I need to do in this situation.

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 *  [Jeremy Clark](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jeremyclark13/)
 * (@jeremyclark13)
 * [18 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-error-without-the-upgrade/#post-610736)
 * If you didn’t delete the database between unistalling it and reinstalling yourself
   then you still need to upgrade your database. Since I’m guessing you don’t have
   anything on the blog yet, why not just delete the database and start completely
   fresh.
 *  Thread Starter [bg2326](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bg2326/)
 * (@bg2326)
 * [18 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-error-without-the-upgrade/#post-610744)
 * Good call. I will try that (as soon as Yahoo! responds as to why my phpMyAdmin
   isn’t working). Once I have tried that, I will post whether the problem was resolved.
 *  Thread Starter [bg2326](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bg2326/)
 * (@bg2326)
 * [18 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-error-without-the-upgrade/#post-611029)
 * I thought I would add one last post to let anyone know who has found themselves
   on this post that I deleted my old database, created a new one, and re-installed
   wordpress, everything is now working as it should.
 * An item to note however, is that the reason I was unable to access phpMyAdmin
   was because Yahoo’s doesn’t work with Firefox… or Safari. So I had to hunt down
   a PC and make my changes from there.

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 * Last reply from: [bg2326](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bg2326/)
 * Last activity: [18 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-error-without-the-upgrade/#post-611029)
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