Title: WordPress Database Error
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# WordPress Database Error

 *  [Simplyvividmedia](https://wordpress.org/support/users/simplyvividmedia/)
 * (@simplyvividmedia)
 * [10 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-database-error-101/)
 * Hi,
 * I’m receiving an ‘Error establishing a database connection’ on my website, [http://www.brigboinettfoundation.org](http://www.brigboinettfoundation.org)
   I tried to repair this and received this error;
 * swi5tpq8_options: Table is marked as crashed
 * Kindly advice on how to fix this.
 * Regards,
 * Sam.

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 *  Moderator [t-p](https://wordpress.org/support/users/t-p/)
 * (@t-p)
 * [10 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-database-error-101/#post-6780788)
 * – do you have a good backup of your database? If you do, restore it.
 * – alternately, ask your hosting provider if they a backup of your site. If they
   do, ask them to restore your site.

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## Tags

 * [error establishing database connection](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/error-establishing-database-connection/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last activity: [10 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-database-error-101/#post-6780788)
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