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[David Krings]

Daniel Convissor wrote:
> Hi David:
> 
>> Yesterday I applied patches and upgrades to my servers (Apache, MySQL, 
>> PHP) and while that worked out nicely except that I yet again have to 
>> recreate all the MySQL user accounts
> 
> Uh, "have" is the wrong word there. :)  You don't need to drop a database 
> before upgrading.  You leave your old tables in place and MySQL provides 
> upgrade scripts that implement changes between server versions.
> 
> 

So you are saying I could drop in the old system tables as well and run the 
update application? I read several tutorials and they all stated  explicitly 
that one should not do that, but only apply that update mechanism to the own 
tables. Maybe I should read better tutorials?

David