Web Threads » Website Management http://www.web-threads.com Websites for Business and Online Communities Tue, 10 Aug 2010 21:48:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 How to Empty Tables in PhpMyAdmin (MySQL) http://www.web-threads.com/2009/08/how-to-empty-tables-in-phpmyadmin-mysql/ http://www.web-threads.com/2009/08/how-to-empty-tables-in-phpmyadmin-mysql/#comments Mon, 17 Aug 2009 19:58:37 +0000 Web Threads http://www.web-threads.com/?p=275 Recently I needed to empty the Drupal sessions and cache tables which had grown to some million+ rows and were causing weekly database errors on a busy health community website. In PhpMyAdmin, permissions to empty tables weren’t available.

I searched for a quick way to easily clear the table and found that truncate does the job and the permissions to do this was there even though it was not listed in the options of phpmyadmin.

TRUNCATE TABLE `drupal_sessions`

I also added a Drupal plugin to do database maintenance weekly to prevent this happening again. Sure enough, the site has been behaving and performing much better since, knock on wood.

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]]> http://www.web-threads.com/2009/08/how-to-empty-tables-in-phpmyadmin-mysql/feed/ 0 A Quick Note on Just Host http://www.web-threads.com/2009/08/a-quick-note-on-just-host/ http://www.web-threads.com/2009/08/a-quick-note-on-just-host/#comments Fri, 07 Aug 2009 17:59:36 +0000 Web Threads http://www.web-threads.com/?p=254 This week I migrated a site for a client, from Heart Internet over to Just Host. In the process I found a few tidbits missing from the Just Host knowledge base, about server FTP and SSL details.


FTP everything in binary or it will strip all the whitespace out of your ascii transfers. PHP scripts stop working.

The Shared SSL on Just Host doesn’t work by default, you need to open a support ticket and make a request. They advise it will take up to 24 hours to work after that, and then your URL will be https://server.ip/~accountname.

Having this info would have saved me a bit of time, but the support was quite helpful and within an hour.

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