John Hunt saved my bacon!!!

On May 12th, 2006 John Hunt from www.john-hunt.com wrote a short pithy blog article regarding recovering from an unanticipated error encountered while upgrading MySQL.

Here is the link to the MySQLUpgradeBreakingThings article, and all I can say is THANK YOU John!!!

So decided to put this up here so future generations of witless children such as myself aren't unduly discomfited when they run into this little issue.


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