Title: Importing Database
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Importing Database

 *  [miguknamja4](https://wordpress.org/support/users/miguknamja4/)
 * (@miguknamja4)
 * [18 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/importing-database-2-2/)
 * I’m trying to import my old database into the newer one for the WP 2.5 blog I
   just installed. However, I cannot do this because I need a valid WXR (WordPress
   eXtended RSS) export file. However, this option is not available for exporting
   files at my domain provider.
 * What can I do?

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 *  [sabinou](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sabinou/)
 * (@sabinou)
 * [18 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/importing-database-2-2/#post-731309)
 * Do you want to ADD or REPLACE the DB of your freshly installed WP ?
 * If that is a replacement of a blank database, then this is a piece of cake. Use
   phpmyadmin to connect to your old database, click the “export tab”, click to 
   select all tables, and click export, using default parameters (just tick “gzip”
   as additional option).
    Download the file. Download it again with another name
   and compare if it has exactly the same size (I already had incomplete downloads,
   better make sure) Then use phpmyadmin to connect to the database of the new WP
   blog, click “import”, chose the download file for the old database, and there
   you are, you have it. You’ll just need to run the (www.yourdomain.com)/wp-admin/
   upgrade.php webpage, a final click, and there you are, you’re done 🙂
 *  Thread Starter [miguknamja4](https://wordpress.org/support/users/miguknamja4/)
 * (@miguknamja4)
 * [17 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/importing-database-2-2/#post-731511)
 * No, I want to add the evo_ database to the wp_ one.
 *  Thread Starter [miguknamja4](https://wordpress.org/support/users/miguknamja4/)
 * (@miguknamja4)
 * [17 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/importing-database-2-2/#post-731512)
 * OK, I tried this:
 * [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/5693?replies=82](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/5693?replies=82)
 * I followed the instructions, and nothing happened, good or bad! Just nothing!
   No change!
 *  [t3spiritz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/t3spiritz/)
 * (@t3spiritz)
 * [17 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/importing-database-2-2/#post-731546)
 * Thanks for the tip.. it worked for me!

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## Tags

 * [database](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/database/)
 * [MySQL](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/mysql/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 4 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [t3spiritz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/t3spiritz/)
 * Last activity: [17 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/importing-database-2-2/#post-731546)
 * Status: not resolved

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