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Disable WordPress XCloner Plugin logger in MySQL / phpMyAdmin

WordPress / By Jan Reilink / 5 January 2021 5 January 2021

If XCloner Logger option is enabled, it will store a log file inside the xcloner-XXXXX folder inside the backup archive. The file is named xcloner-xxxxx.log. This can generate a huge amount of temporary files and log files on your file system. This short article provides you one SQL statement to disable XCloner log directly in your WordPress MySQL database, using phpMyAdmin.

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Restore single MySQL table from a full mysqldump backup file

MySQL / By Jan Reilink / 21 August 2017 19 February 2020

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.

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How to string replace on all WordPress posts in MySQL

MySQL / By Jan Reilink / 13 September 2014 8 February 2019

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.

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How to: Test MySQL database connectivity in ASP.NET, PHP, ASP

Code base / By Jan Reilink / 26 May 2014 9 February 2021

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 your tests.

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How to compare MD5 and SHA1 hashes in MySQL

MySQL / By Jan Reilink / 27 April 2014 20 December 2019

Some web scripting languages, such as classic 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 comparison to compare hashes. Let’s make MySQL do the string comparison and hash calculations for us!

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Connect to SqlCe (SQL Server Compact) database from ASP

Code base / By Jan Reilink / 3 June 2013 30 August 2019

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 Visual Studio 2010 SP1 and WebMatrix 3. This means, it’s recommended to use SqlCe over Access nowadays.

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