Title: WordPress database error: [Got error 12 from storage engine]
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# WordPress database error: [Got error 12 from storage engine]

 *  Resolved [wpitn2shape](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpitn2shape/)
 * (@wpitn2shape)
 * [17 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-database-error-got-error-12-from-storage-engine-1/)
 * I just got this resolved for myself, but haven’t seen the specific error _12_
   before and also haven’t seen any real resolution to any of these elsewhere.
 * Basically my resolution is that my database server (only) was down. (They’re 
   now separate) and it started after I tried to connect to it (saving a draft),
   so I THINK if you KNOW it’s down, don’t change anything on your blog (because
   for me, this started appearing publicly as well).
 * If you CAN reboot your server or DB server, do that, and note; it took me 2 reboots
   to get it back up. *shrug*
 * Hope I help someone someday, or else no one gets these problems!

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 * Last activity: [17 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-database-error-got-error-12-from-storage-engine-1/)
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