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Database Faq's

Below you will find some basic Question and Answers.

Does Digipark make backups of my Database?
Yes, but we can not guarantee recover of a deleted or curupt database.
All customer should backup their Database and keep a copy on their local
PC. You can do this through your phpMyAdmin or phpPgAdmin Gui.

How do I connect to my Database (MySQL) using ODBC?
Windows DSN Name: (Whatever you want)
MySQL host (name or IP): (Use the domain name)
MySQL database name: (Whatever the database name is)
User: (Your MySQL database user ID)
Password: (Your MySQL Password)
Port (if not 3306): Default is 3306 and that is what I use.

How do I connect to my Database (PostgresSQL) using ODBC?
Data Source: (Datasource name)
Database: (whatever the name of your database is)
Server: (Use the domain name here: domainname.com)
User Name: (database User ID)
Description: (whatever you want it to be)
Port: 5432 is the default
Password: (whatever the password)

How do I connect to my Database using a local Java Client?
The URL for reaching MySQL through JDBC (assuming that you're using the org.gjt.mm.mysql.Driver), is of the form:

jdbc:mysql://hostname/database?user=test;password=test
where hostname is the name (or IP address) of a host where MySQL happens to be listening.

For more information on MySQL and Postgres Web Sites
MySQL
Postgres