Title: Unknown and Unexplained parse error
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Unknown and Unexplained parse error

 *  [anataya](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anataya/)
 * (@anataya)
 * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/unknown-and-unexplained-parse-error/)
 * I came to check on my site today, and within the last 24 hours something has 
   happened to WordPress to make it display this error.
 * `Database error: [Got error 28 from table handler]
    SELECT DISTINCT * FROM wp_posts
   WHERE 1=1 AND post_date_gmt <= '2005-06-27 22:34:59' AND (post_status = "publish")
   GROUP BY wp_posts.ID ORDER BY post_date DESC LIMIT 3
 * I don’t know much about PHP and MySQL and don’t understand what this error is
   saying, or why it’s there in the first place. I haven’t touched any of the code
   or the SQL databases, so I have no idea why this would be here. No additional
   posts or comments have been made; this just suddenly appeared, and I have no 
   idea how to fix it.

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 *  [Cypher](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cypher/)
 * (@cypher)
 * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/unknown-and-unexplained-parse-error/#post-226261)
 * Contact your webhost to ask them to check on your database for you, perhaps they
   were doing something. Also is the error persistent or does it come and go??
 * Regards
 *  [notthatugly](https://wordpress.org/support/users/notthatugly/)
 * (@notthatugly)
 * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/unknown-and-unexplained-parse-error/#post-226277)
 * [http://wiki.wordpress.org/Error28](http://wiki.wordpress.org/Error28)
 *  Thread Starter [anataya](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anataya/)
 * (@anataya)
 * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/unknown-and-unexplained-parse-error/#post-226284)
 * Persistent, but none of my other databases have been affected.
 *  [Cypher](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cypher/)
 * (@cypher)
 * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/unknown-and-unexplained-parse-error/#post-226392)
 * Based on the WIKI page’s description, this is something you should take up with
   your webhost. Most hosts will run muliple mySQL servers to handle the load from
   websites, so this might be localized to a single server.
 * Regards

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 * Last reply from: [Cypher](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cypher/)
 * Last activity: [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/unknown-and-unexplained-parse-error/#post-226392)
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