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Database Error – Now Fixed

The site was down for most of Monday but thankfully, we got it up and running again. Somehow the database table for all our posts got corrupted, rendering all our posts as “missing”. With WordPress we use MySQL for the database so we got this error:

Error 144: Table 'xxxxxx' is marked as crashed and last (automatic?) repair failed

This was most definitely a ?!?! moment for us not being at all knowledgable in the inner caverns of web server databases. But the beauty of the internet is that it is often quite easy to find an answer to a technical question/error so we were able to find this fix and it worked.

Run a MySQL query: REPAIR TABLE tablename. It worked like magic and things are back to normal!!

In case some stuff is out of whack, please email us – birdfreak at birdfreak dot com. Thank you for stopping by and we have many reviews and migration reports to post soon!!

The photo of the Ring-billed Gull is how we felt when this error was discovered!

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MaineBirder says:

Great to see you back up and running. I do see a problem, Mr. Linky is not showing up for submissions to Bird Photography Weekly.

Posted on: May 5, 2009 @ 9:03 am
The Birdfreak Team says:

Mister Linky should be back now… it is from an external site and sometimes also crashes

Posted on: May 5, 2009 @ 2:34 pm