Title: Database migration
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# Database migration

 *  [zoombie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zoombie/)
 * (@zoombie)
 * [10 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-migration-1/)
 * Hi,
    I have a woocommerce site, I’ve hired a programmer on freelancer to make
   some modifications to the theme that I was using. The modifications involved 
   some cosmetics changes as well as some back end changes. Now its time to move
   the database (product info, customers data etc…) off my old site and into the
   new site but the developer is telling me that he’s encountering problems as there
   is a mismatch of info in the database and that there will be issues with some
   products might not display properly etc… The database that he was working on 
   while making the changes is a copy of my old database, I’ve replicated the site
   for him so he can work it on a demo server. Can this be an issue or is the developer
   simply incompetent?

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 *  [Mark Ratledge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/songdogtech/)
 * (@songdogtech)
 * [10 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-migration-1/#post-7045250)
 * > I’ve hired a programmer on freelancer to make some modifications to the theme
   > that I was using….The developer is claiming the mismatch in the database is
   > due to the new site design
 * Sorry, but no one here can help with this; we can’t see the code and you shouldn’t
   give access to the demo server to someone you work with in these forums. You 
   have to deal with your develper or find another.
 * If you can’t do the work yourself, consider looking for a reputable person on
   [http://jobs.wordpress.net/](http://jobs.wordpress.net/) or [http://directory.codepoet.com](http://directory.codepoet.com)
   or [http://upwork.com](http://upwork.com)
 *  Thread Starter [zoombie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zoombie/)
 * (@zoombie)
 * [10 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-migration-1/#post-7045346)
 * So its possible that the structure of the database might change with modifications
   to the theme even though all the products data remains the same?
 *  [Mark Ratledge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/songdogtech/)
 * (@songdogtech)
 * [10 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-migration-1/#post-7045364)
 * The database won’t change unless someone changes it; if you copied the database,
   it’s the same. The _presentation_ of the data in the theme can change if the 
   theme is not displaying the data the same as the old theme. There is no “mismatch”
   of the data in the database; the new theme is not displaying the data the way
   you want. If the products don’t display the way you want, it’s the devs fault,
   not the database’s fault.

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 * Last reply from: [Mark Ratledge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/songdogtech/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-migration-1/#post-7045364)
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