Title: WordPress database error Table ‘MYDATABASE.the’ doesn’t exist
Last modified: January 14, 2021

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# WordPress database error Table ‘MYDATABASE.the’ doesn’t exist

 *  Resolved [philraymond](https://wordpress.org/support/users/philraymond/)
 * (@philraymond)
 * [5 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-database-error-table-mydatabase-the-doesnt-exist/)
 * This is occasionally showing up in my error_log file:
 * WordPress database error Table ‘MYDATABASE.the’ doesn’t exist for query SHOW 
   FULL COLUMNS FROM `the` made by require(‘wp-blog-header.php’), require_once(‘
   wp-includes/template-loader.php’), include(‘/themes/bb-theme/tpl-full-width.php’),
   get_template_part, locate_template, load_template, require(‘/themes/bb-theme-
   child/content-page.php’), dynamic_sidebar, WP_Widget->display_callback, CRP_Widget-
   >widget, get_crp, get_crp_posts, CRP_Query->__construct, WP_Query->__construct,
   WP_Query->query, WP_Query->get_posts
 * Do you think it’s your plugin?

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 *  Plugin Author [Ajay](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ajay/)
 * (@ajay)
 * [5 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-database-error-table-mydatabase-the-doesnt-exist/#post-13911503)
 * [@philraymond](https://wordpress.org/support/users/philraymond/)
 * Is this on a specific post?
 * I’ve noticed this issue once in my testing which was extremely rare when an inbuilt
   function in WPDB which had the regex to detect the table fail.
 * I was able to trace this, quite painfully, to this function:
    [https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wpdb/get_table_from_query/](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wpdb/get_table_from_query/)
 * The workaround was reducing the amount of words compared as whatever that combination
   of text was caused the preg_replace to fail.
 * There are two options to fix this
    – define CRP_MAX_WORDS in your wp-config to
   a number smaller than 100 – 100 is default no. of words.
 * – If it is only a single post, use the keyword function in the metabox to use
   that to search for the relevant posts.
 * Hope this helps.
 *  Thread Starter [philraymond](https://wordpress.org/support/users/philraymond/)
 * (@philraymond)
 * [5 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-database-error-table-mydatabase-the-doesnt-exist/#post-14012600)
 * This showed up a few times a month ago but hasn’t shown up since, so I guess 
   we’re good. Thanks, Ajay!
 *  Plugin Author [Ajay](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ajay/)
 * (@ajay)
 * [5 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-database-error-table-mydatabase-the-doesnt-exist/#post-14014557)
 * [@philraymond](https://wordpress.org/support/users/philraymond/)
 * I was able to find the fix. Another user also reported this. I’ll be pushing 
   through a new version today.

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