Hi monks,

This has nothing to do with perl but with MySQL. Please bear with me :)

I created a new table yesterday and inserted some values from an old table to the new table (on a live server but it was unlikely for anybody to access the site during that time). The syntax used was:

INSERT INTO new_table (col1, col2) SELECT col1, col2 FROM old_table;

I did a SHOW TABLES and DESCRIBE new_table and verified that the new table was created and the values were inserted correctly.

I then accessed a page from the browser and everything looked fine - this page pulled out values from the new table.

Then I modified the specs of two columns of the new_table (I had done this before without problems). I didn't get any errors with the modifications.

After that, I accessed the page again from the broswer. This time round, the sql select didn't work. Curious, I did a SHOW TABLES and to my surprise, the new table was gone.

What could have happened? Have you encountered this sort of things before?

In reply to OT: complete loss of a new table by kiat

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