Rename a MediaWiki database

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Procedure.svg Rename a MediaWiki database
Organic Design procedure

The simplest approach is to take a sql dump of a database;


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and manually edit the line in backupfile.sql 

CREATE DATABASE /*!32312 IF NOT EXISTS*/ [database]

then restore the mysqldump file with;


<PHP>

mysql -u [user] -p [database] < backupfile.sql # Restore </PHP>

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