[Mediawiki-l] Is there any reason to use a table name prefix ifyou don't have to?

[Jack Eapen C]

 Hi,

There is no reason that compels you to use a table prefix. You need to
use a table prefix only if you want to use the same mysql database for
some other applications, or use the same db for different versions of
Mediawiki. Even if you use same database for multiple applications, it's
not necessary to use a table prefix. A table prefix will only help you
while viewing the table names-if you use a prefix, you can see all the
mediawiki tables together. Or if you want to export only mediawiki
tables using an application like phpMyAdmin from a multi-application
database, you can easily select the tables in one go, if they have a
prefix. That's it; nothing more.


Regards,
 
Jack Eapen
SunTec Knowledge Centre
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-----Original Message-----
From: mediawiki-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org
[mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of The Gadget
Doctor
Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2008 6:44 PM
To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list
Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Is there any reason to use a table name
prefix ifyou don't have to?

On Feb 5, 2008 2:46 PM, David A. Desrosiers <desrod at gnu-designs.com>
wrote:

>
> Currently all maintenance tasks are hard-coded with the standard table

> names. I've run into this and been bitten by it far too many times.
>

This would seem to be a killer point that I haven't spotted anywhere in
the docs (and a bit of a failing!)

Right now I can't seem to get any maintenance scripts to run as I get
the following failure:

PHP Fatal error:  require_once(): Failed opening required 'counter.php'
(include_path='.:') in
/var/www/vhosts/xxxxxxx/httpdocs/w/maintenance/update.php
on line 2

I'm scouring the web and the archives right now but if anyone knows the
answer.....
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