Save to MySQL

Colin Law clanlaw at gmail.com
Thu Mar 22 05:03:15 EDT 2018


On 22 March 2018 at 07:39, daniel <daniel.orkan at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm using two machines (both are Ubuntu 16.04) and trying to use MySQL to
> save GnuCash data.
> In one machine the GnuCash application in the second one MySQL.
>
> While trying to save the data (with Save As, MySQL option) I provide the
> MySQL information (Host, DB, User and Pass).
>
> In MySQL I see that the database was created as well as the tables.
>
> However, I get an error in GnuCash - The Server at URL:// experienced an
> error or encountered bad or corrupt data.
>
> If I try to save agian with the same MySQL information I get:
> The file already exits. Are you sure you want to overwrite it ?
> Answering Yes creates another set of tables with _back suffix to all tables.

The _back tables are (I think) backups of the ones before the save.
The normally named tables should contain the correct data.  Did the
save succeed this time?

If it still did not succeed check that the user has full access to the database.

Also which version of gnucash and which version of SQL sever are you using?

Colin


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