Title: Sudden Database failure while editing categories
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Sudden Database failure while editing categories

 *  Resolved [No_No](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nicolediana/)
 * (@nicolediana)
 * [20 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sudden-database-failure-while-editing-categories/)
 * Wow! I was happily editing category names and then navigated to this site to 
   enter a post regarding a comment question. When I reloaded my blog, the posts
   were not showing. I get this error:
 * WordPress database error: [Got error 28 from table handler]
    SELECT DISTINCT *
   FROM wp_posts WHERE 1=1 AND post_date_gmt <= ‘2005-09-13 04:20:59’ AND (post_status
   = “publish” OR post_author = 1 AND post_status != ‘draft’ AND post_status != ‘
   static’) GROUP BY wp_posts.ID ORDER BY post_date DESC LIMIT 0, 5
 * It shows my categories in the blog and in my admin section, everything is fine
   except the “manage” tab. That produces the same error.
 * I have no clue what to do now.

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 *  Thread Starter [No_No](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nicolediana/)
 * (@nicolediana)
 * [20 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sudden-database-failure-while-editing-categories/#post-260944)
 * Ah, I typed the wrong info into search. I tried again and see this matter has
   been addressed before: [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/21780](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/21780)
 * I’ll take it from here. 🙂
 *  [Beel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/beel/)
 * (@beel)
 * [20 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sudden-database-failure-while-editing-categories/#post-260945)
 * Is it from a addin to your sidebar? What do you have beneath the search form?
 * Edit: “Never mind,” said Roseanne Roseannadanna
 *  Thread Starter [No_No](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nicolediana/)
 * (@nicolediana)
 * [20 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sudden-database-failure-while-editing-categories/#post-260946)
 * I found another error in the server logs and would like some clarification, if
   possible, to be sure this is still a mySQL issue.
 * The error I see is:
 * Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at/
   blog/wp-includes/wp-db.php:98) in Unknown on line 0
 * I saw in searching for others with this problem that is has been addressed many
   times but in the posts I dug through, I didn’t see any that addressed the database
   file itself and “unknown online 0”.
 * My host hasn’t responded yet (probably sleeping). I wasn’t editing templates 
   at the time of the “crash”, just changing post categories. Don’t know what happened.
   🙁
 *  [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/)
 * (@podz)
 * [20 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sudden-database-failure-while-editing-categories/#post-260952)
 * Use your ftp client and check that all the files in /wp-admin and /wp-includes
   are present and the right size – download WP from here again to use in comparison.
   It could be that something there has gone wrong.
 *  Thread Starter [No_No](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nicolediana/)
 * (@nicolediana)
 * [20 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sudden-database-failure-while-editing-categories/#post-260977)
 * Thank you for the reply. I woke up to a reply from my host telling me nothing
   was wrong and when I navigated to my blog, all was well. I think I’ll do nightly
   backups of the DB from now on to be on the safe side.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 5 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [No_No](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nicolediana/)
 * Last activity: [20 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sudden-database-failure-while-editing-categories/#post-260977)
 * Status: resolved

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