99azureproblems

nazrulhassanmca is a master, he is correct.

The issue may be fairly narrow, but significant to those affected. For a while, Azure was using “Brandoo” installations of WordPress, which used a php interpreter to force an Azure SQL database to emulate a mysql database. Brandoo died, so when it came time for a required database update, it was impossible (Brandoo stated that one of the main reasons they quit the project was the constant WP changes). The only answer appears to extract everything from Azure, rebuild an actual mysql database and move the files and new database to host it somewhere that allows mysql.

Later Azure WordPress implementations use a mysql vendor called Cleardb for a free 20 meg mysql external database. Once you go over 20 meg, the price skyrockets. Azure isn’t a particularly WP friendly host.

Anyway, nazrulhassanmca knows what he is talking about.

The site itself is updated, the whole thing hangs on the database version. The site updated with the autoupdate, but it still needs to “update” the database, which resides on the Azure servers.

The first message it gives me is, “WordPress has been updated!”

The second is, “we have to update your database to the newest version.”

That’s where it hangs. I need to get to the admin panel, or figure out a workaround, I don’t know any way to update an Azure SQL database emulating MYSQL. I’m sure there’s a way, but I’m dead in the water until I figure this out.