Backing up your blog database is a smart thing to do. In fact it’s recommended by every administrator on the planet. Regardless, I haven’t done the chore in weeks. Today I realized my lack of emergency precaution and freaked myself out. So I logged on to phpMyAdmin as hurried as I can to export my database for download. Guess what it was 4mb at least, and I thought I haven’t been blogging much around here. I suspected bogus and there it was buried under. It turned out all these time marking SPAM as SPAM in WordPress ended up storing them in my database instead of banishing them to datahell. So there I was with 7000+ comment SPAM entries spinning the brains off my head. Thank heavens for phpMyAdmin and it’s intelligent search and destroy feature (yeah I made that up!) my database is now back to 1mb and that makes me a happy blogger.

Good night! (South East Asian time)

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