Title: Database problem?
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Database problem?

 *  Resolved [hj](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hj/)
 * (@hj)
 * [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-problem-17/)
 * My site was displaying and operating fine a few days ago…but suddenly seems to
   be showing SQL errors?
 * The problem was brought to my attention by an editor who was trying to upload
   an image file and found that ‘Temporary Folder Cannot Be Found’.
 * Now I notice that MySQL code is being displayed in my sidebar where there were
   some navigation and related post widgets.
 * Any ideas? Here’s the link: [http://www.mulucaves.org/wordpress](http://www.mulucaves.org/wordpress)
 * thanks

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 *  [jon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/adiant/)
 * (@adiant)
 * [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-problem-17/#post-1374365)
 * If I was a betting man, I’d give you 5 to 1 odds that this is a problem with 
   your web host’s MySQL database server setup.
 * Try reporting the complete error message, URL where you see it, date, exact time(
   of last time you saw it, so they can look it up in their logs) and time zone 
   you are in, to your web host’s Support folks.
 *  Thread Starter [hj](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hj/)
 * (@hj)
 * [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-problem-17/#post-1374531)
 * Thanks for the tip, I’ll certainly take it up with them.
 * It does seem odd that it was working on Tuesday and munged on Friday – have not
   touched the site between times.
 *  Thread Starter [hj](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hj/)
 * (@hj)
 * [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-problem-17/#post-1374608)
 * I investigated with host and it seems persmissions on a temp folder had been 
   changed somehow. The guy fixed the permissions and that fixed the problem, it
   wasn’t actually an sql error.
 * But thanks for the tip-off, be hard to tell for me whether it’s a server or WP
   error.
 *  [jon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/adiant/)
 * (@adiant)
 * [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-problem-17/#post-1374635)
 * For future reference, if you didn’t change anything when things suddenly stop
   working, maybe someone else did. Two obvious possibilities:
    1. your web host support folks
    2. a visitor to your site, usually a hacker
 * Just a little tip from someone who started his professional computing career 
   in 1971 (punch cards and very wide printout paper).

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 * [sql](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/sql/)
 * [temporary folder](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/temporary-folder/)

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 * Last reply from: [jon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/adiant/)
 * Last activity: [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-problem-17/#post-1374635)
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