Title: Interesting Database Issue
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Interesting Database Issue

 *  [sherrikicksrocks](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sherrikicksrocks/)
 * (@sherrikicksrocks)
 * [16 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/interesting-database-issue/)
 * Blog 1 – a WordPress blog that has been running beautifully since January 2009.
   
   Blog 2 – A new blog that was being set up today.
 * Earlier today, I inadvertently uploaded a new wp-config.php for Blog 2 to an 
   already existing WordPress blog, Blog 1. Naturally, I received a database error
   since the MySQL settings didn’t match. I believed I had corrected it and re-uploaded
   the wp-config.php for Blog 1 with its original MySQL settings. Unfortunately,
   I had the username wrong and I ended up re-installing WordPress for Blog 1.
 * My domain host advised me that I should access the database of Blog 1 where I
   would now see 20 tables instead of the 10. The host instructed me which tables
   were the original and which were the new. He indicated that the newer install
   of WordPress was pulling the info from the newer tables, which obviously were
   empty.
 * After dropping the newer tables, I was then left with the 10 original tables 
   in the database. However, now when I visit Blog 1, it is bringing me to the WordPress
   install.php telling me to install again. I’m assuming that is going to bring 
   me right back to the problem; I’ll then have 20 tables in that database again.
 * My question is idiotic, I guess: how do I get my blog back, using the original
   10 tables in that database that I can actually SEE are there? Is there a way?
 * PS: During all of this, I actually exported that database to my desktop. I figured
   if worse came to worse, I could reinstall and then just import back. Unfortunately,
   when I first tried it using the WordPress tool to import, it said the file was
   too large.
 * On another forum someone made another suggestion that I should try a script –
   mysqldumper. I downloaded it and became completely confused as the instructions
   call for files that aren’t in the folder.
 * I sure could use some help. If anyone could let me know if there is a way to 
   just get things back to normal, I would be very grateful. It’s been over 10 hours
   of back-and-forth with my host and I haven’t made much progress at all.

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 *  [ifoman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ifoman/)
 * (@ifoman)
 * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/interesting-database-issue/#post-1169451)
 * You have the MySQL database intact, and you can upload the WordPress files back
   to the server. The connection between the two, then, is really the configuration
   file that tells WordPress where your MySQL files resides, along with the username
   and password for the database. If all three components are present and correct,
   running WordPress should put you back to where you were originally. You DID make
   a back-up of the original wp-config.php file, right?

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 1 reply
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [ifoman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ifoman/)
 * Last activity: [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/interesting-database-issue/#post-1169451)
 * Status: not resolved

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