Question

I recently went to backup a database and got the following error “#1007 – Can’t create database ‘wordpress_8’; database exists”.

I have the following line in the beginning of my sql file:

SET SQL_MODE="NO_AUTO_VALUE_ON_ZERO";

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-- Database: 'wordpress_8'
--
CREATE DATABASE wordpress_8 DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci;
USE wordpress_8;

What do I need to change this to in order to insert the subsequent data into the existing “wordpress_8” database rather than create a new one?

Thanks!

Answer 1

To change which database you’re using, you use the USE statement. In this case, USE wordpress_8;. Then the actual data needs to be inserted into the tables using INSERT statements.