Comments on: Converting a MySQL version 3.23 database to version 5.0

By: Ramón Casero

Ramón Casero — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:31:20 +0000

Hi flo, thanks for the tutorial. I am trying to import an old WordPress blog (mysql 3.23) into a newer version (mysql 5.0).

I agree with Rob above. I didn’t need the sed command, but I had to remove the first block of comments.

In my case, the dump was already in utf8, so I didn’t need to convert the encoding either.

By: Rob Jones

Rob Jones — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 18:26:08 +0000

Followed your instructions – very helpful – thank you!

Two differences for me:

1: Didn’t need the sed script to update my lines with auto_increment.
2: Did need to strip off the first block of comments at the top of my SQL – think it was choking on a long line of dashes. Removed that block and it loaded fine.

Here is my write up of me steps (with credit to your post, of course!)

http://craiccomputing.blogspot.com/2009/06/migrating-mysql-323-database-to-50.html

Thanks again.

By: John

John — Fri, 01 May 2009 22:48:00 +0000

I have a project I am working on for a new client. They have an 3.23 db they had developed in ’03 that they never used. The development company that created the system is out of business and my client wants to use the old system as the basis for our new project. Unfortunately we do not have a 3.23 server we can access to do the conversion. Is this something you’d be interested in doing for us? Please email me asap to discuss. Thanks.

By: Theo

Theo — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:01:22 +0000

Thanks for an excellent summary ! Saved me a whole heap of time.