If you need to restore a single table from a full MySQL backup, you may find yourself wondering “how do I do that?”. There are a few steps required, I outline them here for you to restore the contents of just one table back into the database from the mysqldump using Bash.
Here’s a PowerShell script, by Microsoft’s Dave Browne, to install SQL Server Express Edition and restore a database from a command line. It’s intended to be used as part of an installation script for an application that needs a local SQL Express instance. But it also demonstrates several SQL Server and Powershell interop features like […]
Learn how to replace content in your MySQL database in bulk with MySQL REPLACE. Sometimes it’s useful to know how to bulk edit content in your WordPress MySQL database, using MySQL’s REPLACE() function. Here is how to string replace content in WordPress wp_posts table to bulk edit WordPress posts through MySQL.
Simple MySQL connection test from your website with ASP.NET, PHP & classic ASP. Whenever you need a MySQL connectivity test from a website or server, it’s handy to have various test scripts nearby. Whether it is because you are setting up a new website or you have just installed a new server and are running […]
MySQL string comparison functions for MD5 and SHA1 hashes; how to calculate MD5 and SHA1 hashes in MySQL and compare strings with MySQL. Some web scripting languages like ASP don’t have native string hashing functions -like MD5 or SHA1. This makes it quite difficult to hash or encrypt user supplied input, and to perform string […]
Connect to SQL Server Compacy (SqlCe) database with ASP. Here is how to install the Microsoft.SQLSERVER.CE.OLEDB.4.0 Provider and use classic ASP to connect to an SqlCe (SQL Server Compact) database sdf file, as a Microsoft Access database replacement. For Windows Server IIS. SQL Server Compact (SqlCe), the embedded database engine, is the default database for […]
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