I think he only has one DB, I guess that is a provider restriction...

On 1/30/09 8:52 AM, "Claudio Nanni" <claudio.na...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Robert,
> 
> keep the two databases separated,
> 
> that is on different mysql database (or schema as they are also called).
> 
> If the wordpress blog is on a database named 'wpblog' for example
> 
> import your dump in another newly created database.
> 
> Could just use those statement in the dump file
> 
> CREATE DATABASE `db169254900`;
> USE db169254900;
> 
> it'll create and use a new database (logic separation / phisical different
> folders)
> 
> You can have all the databases you want in MySQL,
> 
> they are just logical separation between tables,
> 
> and with MyISAM tables also phisical separation thru folders.
> 
> cheers
> 
> Claudio
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 2009/1/29 Robert D. Crawford <rd...@comcast.net>
> 
>> Hello, Olaf,
>> 
>> "Stein, Olaf" <olaf.st...@nationwidechildrens.org> writes:
>> 
>>> the import of the dump will not remove your other tables unless there
>>> is a naming conflict, then the table will be overwritten. As far as
>>> the prefix goes you can edit the dump file, find the create table
>>> statement for each table and add the prefix. If you have lots of
>>> tables or a huge dump file it might make sense to use a more automated
>>> approach, perl or python scripts will work on most platforms. The
>>> prefix will also make sure you have no naming conflicts I guess
>> 
>> I figured that would be the case but I really needed to make sure.  The
>> file is huge but judicious use of head, emacs, and cat should do the job
>> just fine without having to write something.
>> 
>> One other question concerns these lines:
>> 
>> CREATE DATABASE `db169254900`;
>> USE db169254900;
>> 
>> I can just remove the CREATE DATABASE line and change the USE line to
>> reflect the name of the current db, right?
>> 
>> Thanks for your help.  My partner will be rather happy to have her wiki
>> up.
>> 
>> rdc
>> --
>> Robert D. Crawford                                      rd...@comcast.net
>> 
>> Laugh at your problems; everybody else does.
>> 
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