Really a newbie but just want to know the following: If I install mediawiki on my webhotel, will it erase my current database or just add som tabels?
Probably simple question, but important :o)
/Jane Larsen
In MySQL, it creates it's own DB and places all it's tables there. The only time an app should overwrite data is if there is a naming conflict.
On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 15:05:13 +0100, Jane Larsen noesgard@gmail.com wrote:
Really a newbie but just want to know the following: If I install mediawiki on my webhotel, will it erase my current database or just add som tabels?
Probably simple question, but important :o)
/Jane Larsen _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
Jamie Bliss wrote:
In MySQL, it creates it's own DB and places all it's tables there. The only time an app should overwrite data is if there is a naming conflict.
And if you do have other tables in there which might conflict, you should specify a table prefix during installation so the names will definitely stay separate (in 1.4.0).
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
At 03:10 PM 3/22/05, you wrote:
In MySQL, it creates it's own DB and places all it's tables there. The only time an app should overwrite data is if there is a naming conflict.
I think it's a little more accurate to say: "it creates it's own DB if needed, but will install its tables into an existing one". (And then add the caveats about naming and overwriting). I installed 1.3.?? into an existing DB. In fact, don't you have to have a DB with account and username before install?
I do have an existing DB account that is used for Typo3 amongstother things but since I can only have one DB account it would be real trouble if this install would overwrite the existing data - hence the question :o)
/Jane
On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 22:11:06 -0600, =James Birkholz= j.birchwood@verizon.net wrote:
At 03:10 PM 3/22/05, you wrote:
In MySQL, it creates it's own DB and places all it's tables there. The only time an app should overwrite data is if there is a naming conflict.
I think it's a little more accurate to say: "it creates it's own DB if needed, but will install its tables into an existing one". (And then add the caveats about naming and overwriting). I installed 1.3.?? into an existing DB. In fact, don't you have to have a DB with account and username before install?
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