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 *   Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
   
   In reply to: [Required database update killed Azure Admin access](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/required-database-update-killed-azure-admin-access/)
 *  Thread Starter [99azureproblems](https://wordpress.org/support/users/99azureproblems/)
 * (@99azureproblems)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/required-database-update-killed-azure-admin-access/#post-6179870)
 * 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.
 *   Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
   
   In reply to: [Required database update killed Azure Admin access](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/required-database-update-killed-azure-admin-access/)
 *  Thread Starter [99azureproblems](https://wordpress.org/support/users/99azureproblems/)
 * (@99azureproblems)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/required-database-update-killed-azure-admin-access/#post-6179825)
 * Is there a workaround to get the startup scripts to not force-update the database?
   That’s the easy answer. Then I can move the site
 *   Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
   
   In reply to: [Required database update killed Azure Admin access](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/required-database-update-killed-azure-admin-access/)
 *  Thread Starter [99azureproblems](https://wordpress.org/support/users/99azureproblems/)
 * (@99azureproblems)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/required-database-update-killed-azure-admin-access/#post-6179813)
 * 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.

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