[BlueOnyx:20996] Re: limited length of database names

[Chris Gebhardt - VIRTBIZ Internet]

On 5/3/2017 3:13 AM, Tobias Gablunsky wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> we have a customer that is moving from a self deployed and managed server to one with BO on it, 5209R exactly.
>
> Now we have to move existing databases and are having the problem that we cannot install databases as they are: BO does not let us create databeses which names exceed 16 characters.
>
> Is there a way to avoid this limitation? Use a handler script per command line maybe? Or do I really have to tell my customer that he is forced to rename all of his databases and change the configuration of all of its applications?
>

Suggestion: If you have shell access to the outgoing box, grab the MySQL 
dump and then import it onto the new system via CLI.   We've never had a 
problem doing things that way.

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