My database seems to of got corrupt over night. I sent a support ticket to Dreamhost this morning but have not recieved a reply. I tried loggin in via PHPMyAdmin and my user/pass is not recognised even though in the account settings both are still their. I made a new testing account which works but it does not load the table. When i click the table to load the status bar just says loading and nothing else.... So my next option is to check/repair the database via shell but I dont know how to... I tried to google it but they didnt have a dummies guide that I could use... So if anyone can help would be useful Its a IPB forum that has been corrupted the IPB site itself does'nt say what the exact error is except that its a DB error...
Well I think the first thing is to find out how the password got changed and why. I would not go to the trouble to repair the DB yet in the event it just gets corrupted again. Further a lot of hosts won't let you SSH into the server due to security risks. Can you phone these people to escalate your service ticket? I know this obvious but in trying to access the DB through PHPMY, are you using case sensitive letters? PS - I just thought of something else - are you able to make a new DB with new info and get logged into PHPMYand do you have a current back up of the DB