MySQL

0 comments on "WordPress SQLite to MySQL Migration Complete"

Just finished migrating my website from SQLite to MySQL. What a rush. (lol) It was actually not as bad as I thought. A lot of sed, grep and other sorcery involved; especially in transforming of SQLite statements to MySQL. Some quick commands I used: sqlite techish.db .dump > production_2018-08-23.dump.sql I found that it used quotes…

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0 comments on "Change WordPress Password using MySQL"

If the Forgot password option doesn’t work for you (which it really should), then you can change the password of your self-hosted WordPress login. Check the contents of wp-config.php for the database login. Use that login information for MySQL login. define(‘DB_NAME’, ‘wpdatabase’); define(‘DB_USER’, ‘wpdbuser’); define(‘DB_PASSWORD’, ‘wpdbpassword’); Replacing DB_USER and DB_NAME from that command with the…

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0 comments on "Calculate Date Differences in MySQL"

There is a function in MySQL that will calculate the number of days between two given dates:  datediff Example mysql> select datediff(‘2014-06-09′,’2014-07-07’); +———————————————-+ | datediff(‘2014-06-09′,’2014-07-07′) | +———————————————-+ | -28 | +———————————————-+ 1 row in set (0.00 sec) Calculate Days Between Now and Specific Date mysql> select datediff(now(),’2014-07-01′); +——————————+ | datediff(now(),’2014-07-01’) | +——————————+ | 6 |…

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0 comments on "Determine a MySQL Database Creation Date"

Here’s a simple way to determine the date/time a database was created in MySQL: SELECT create_time FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES WHERE table_schema = ‘DB_NAME’ mysql> select create_time from information_schema.tables where table_schema=’foo’; +———————+ | create_time | +———————+ | 2013-03-01 10:42:34 |

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