Title: Database differences between 2.1 and Wp 2.2
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Database differences between 2.1 and Wp 2.2

 *  [geoffreygonzalez](https://wordpress.org/support/users/geoffreygonzalez/)
 * (@geoffreygonzalez)
 * [18 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-differences-between-21-and-wp-22/)
 * Please assist,
 * Does anybody know what are the major database (fields) differences (enhancements)
   when updgrading from WP2.1 to WP2.2.
 * How many new fields.

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 *  [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/)
 * (@michaelh)
 * [18 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-differences-between-21-and-wp-22/#post-589461)
 * I really don’t think there was any field differences.
 * They just added the character set collation statements if I remember correctly.
 *  [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/)
 * (@michaelh)
 * [18 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-differences-between-21-and-wp-22/#post-589466)
 * By the way, you can confirm that by using something like Beyond Compare to compare
   the two versions of wp-admin/upgrade-schema.php.
 *  Thread Starter [geoffreygonzalez](https://wordpress.org/support/users/geoffreygonzalez/)
 * (@geoffreygonzalez)
 * [18 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-differences-between-21-and-wp-22/#post-589813)
 * Would anybody know why UTF-8 characters get corrupted.
 * When creating a backup , prior to upgrading from WP 2.1 to WP 2.2
 * Thanks Geoffrey

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 * [upgrades](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/upgrades/)

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 * Last reply from: [geoffreygonzalez](https://wordpress.org/support/users/geoffreygonzalez/)
 * Last activity: [18 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-differences-between-21-and-wp-22/#post-589813)
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