Username Change

Discussion in 'Support & Feedback' started by SoAngels.com, Jul 5, 2009.

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    I agree that name changes should only be done with a very good reason and at very maximum once a year. Who might I contact to get my username changed. I've been a fond reader of DP four years(pun.)

    I've registered and got the business approved by state, officially, might you feel it's a very good reason.

    Username(s): SEOMagicians, SEOMagicbook, SEOMage

    Open to suggestion, if taken please take those into consideration. (I'd be happy to take a name revision. Dedicated to DigitalPoint, I'm making this my main forum for sharing knowledge and information.)

    -Best Wishes.
     
    SoAngels.com, Jul 5, 2009 IP
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    Changing a username more or less takes the site out of commission for a few minutes as it has to go through tables where the username is stored and change it in many, many places (including very large [think multi-gigabyte] tables) where the username within it isn't indexed.

    For example, the database that stores posts... the username is stored with each post you make. So one of the places it has to go through and do an unindexed find/replace is the post table (full table scale of every post ever made, and also locking the post table so no other SQL queries can be made to it).

    That's the long version...

    The short version... sorry, no. :)
     
    digitalpoint, Jul 6, 2009 IP
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