Title: wp_options table gone missing
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# wp_options table gone missing

 *  [Loft 33](https://wordpress.org/support/users/loftexternal/)
 * (@loftexternal)
 * [1 year, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp_options-table-gone-missing/)
 * Hi there; 
   we have an issue regarding this site of ours; at one point we got 
   a database connection error we could not recover from. The normal way of fixing
   the db failed. When we looked via php_my_admin we found the wp_options table 
   had gone completely missing.Knowing this, we copied the table from a backup back
   and it seemed to work fine for a couple days. But this morning we found the issue
   had returned. This time no backup available so we lost some progress unfortunately.
   We tried checking the plugins; but no new plugins had been installed.Is this 
   a known issue and how can we fix this?Kind regards
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   to see the link]_

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 *  Moderator [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/)
 * (@sterndata)
 * Volunteer Forum Moderator
 * [1 year, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp_options-table-gone-missing/#post-17924980)
 * Ask your host to look at the mysql logs at the time the table went bad (or away).
   The causes should be logged there.
 *  Thread Starter [Loft 33](https://wordpress.org/support/users/loftexternal/)
 * (@loftexternal)
 * [1 year, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp_options-table-gone-missing/#post-17926886)
 * [@sterndata](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/) 
   Thank you for your
   suggestion; we will do that, though it might take a while.

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 * Last reply from: [Loft 33](https://wordpress.org/support/users/loftexternal/)
 * Last activity: [1 year, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp_options-table-gone-missing/#post-17926886)
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