WordPress 2.3 Dexter has been released. Facing the dreaded database upgrade error? Check out this forum thread. And if you have shell access, read my tutorial on Upgrading WordPress via Shell. And, do remember to deactivate all plugins before you upgrade.
cPanel (most control panels actually) provides you with phpMyAdmin which is what we will use to backup our mySQL database.
Though you can backup your complete database at one go, I recommend making two backup files, one containing the Structure and the other containing the Data.
Why? Simply because your structure will usually remains same (unless you [...]
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