[Logician]

Originally posted by nakkid
i'm sorry, but i cannot accept this. if you had the board OFF it will not corrupt it. i did this test: i logged in with only one user to the board and while browsing the threads i ran the script. it corrupted only the threads table. it cannot corrupt several tables. is IMPOSSIBLE. there is nothing to say more. how it can corrupt several tables if it acceses each one by one?

You may be missing something:

If you turn your board off, it's very likely that you'll not get corrupted tables, but this has no guarantee either. Because even if you disable your board, users logging in your board can access some tables. Although board does not show them itself anymore, as far as I know, it continues to work in the background (global.php) access some tables such as sessions, access etc. How would your board know you are an admin and show you the board even if it's closed, if it werent keep working? It just keeps on working and access tables, but simply does not show the members the results.

However the access to the db reduces significiantly when you disable the board, so it's very unlikely that you come across a corruption unless you have a very high traffic in your board or you're unlucky. Slynderdale may be one of them.

IMHO: I wouldnt apply any repair action to mysql db, if there is no problems with it. As we all know it's a general rule: Dont touch your computer, if it's working!

My 0.2 cents..

Regards,
Logician