Title: Database issue
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Database issue

 *  Resolved [goinhome50](https://wordpress.org/support/users/goinhome50/)
 * (@goinhome50)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-issue-13/)
 * Hi folks — I haven’t asked for help for five years, and I’m at the end of my 
   rope here. I’m moving three sites from server to server within Media Temple —
   they’ve been most helpful, but they reserve any opinions on WordPress. All three
   sites haven’t been updated for two or more years. I’ve moved one so far — [http://www.goinhome.com](http://www.goinhome.com).
   Uploaded database, nothing showed, added the `define('WP_ALLOW_REPAIR', true);`
   to the wp-config file and it worked. The database appeared to be fine except 
   for this message:
 * “Some database problems could not be repaired. Please copy-and-paste the following
   list of errors to the WordPress support forums to get additional assistance.”
 * `wp_commentmeta: Table 'db32949_goinhome.wp_commentmeta' doesn't exist`
 * Since I’m of the mind that I should follow directions, I’m doing so and I hope
   someone can help me out here.
 * Many thanks in advance, Linda

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 *  [Josh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/josh401/)
 * (@josh401)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-issue-13/#post-5627098)
 * Well; comment meta was introduced in WordPress version 2.9. It’s possible your
   WordPress installs are using versions before 2.9… in which case the table would
   not exist.
 * You can attempt to run the following SQL query to add the comment meta table:
 *     ```
       CREATE TABLE wp_commentmeta (
         meta_id bigint(20) unsigned NOT NULL auto_increment,
         comment_id bigint(20) unsigned NOT NULL default '0',
         meta_key varchar(255) default NULL,
         meta_value longtext,
         PRIMARY KEY  (meta_id),
         KEY comment_id (comment_id),
         KEY meta_key (meta_key)
       )
       ```
   
 * I’d take a database backup beforehand.. just to be safe.
 *  Thread Starter [goinhome50](https://wordpress.org/support/users/goinhome50/)
 * (@goinhome50)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-issue-13/#post-5627122)
 * Hey Josh — thanks. That worked to create the table, for sure. Site still isn’t
   showing up. I don’t even know where to go from here. Any suggestions are welcome.
 *  Thread Starter [goinhome50](https://wordpress.org/support/users/goinhome50/)
 * (@goinhome50)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-issue-13/#post-5627139)
 * Well I’ll be doggone…the site is working. Thanks Josh!
 *  [Josh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/josh401/)
 * (@josh401)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-issue-13/#post-5627160)
 * 🙂 My pleasure.
    Glad you got it working properly.
 * _[Marking topic as resolved.]_

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## Tags

 * [repair database](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/repair-database/)
 * [Repair Table](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/repair-table/)
 * [wp_config](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/wp_config/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 4 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [Josh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/josh401/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-issue-13/#post-5627160)
 * Status: resolved

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