When working with your Mambo database, there are three major areas you need to become familiar with, the first is backing up the database, the second is how to restore it, and lastly, you need to know how to run SQL queries. In this tutorial I show you how to do all this using phpMyAdmin and show you how to upgrade your Mambo database through a real-life example.

How to upgrade from early versions of Mambo to the latest releases. This tutorial for Mambo shows you the steps and includes the files you will need to bring your site from Mambo 4.5.1.0.9 to either Mambo 4.5.6 or right up to the latest stable version.

This tutorial looks at the Mambo error message: "This site is temporarily unavailable. Please notify the System Administrator" and tells you what it means, what the numbers in it mean, and how to resolve the problem.

If you have forgotten your Administrator password and need to reset it, this tutorial is for you. We look at how to recover from a forgotten administrator password and how to reset it through your Mambo database using either SQL queries or the built-in features of phpMyAdmin.

Some simple tips that apply to all Mambo sites for improving performance. A must read for any administrator of a Mambo web site.

This is the second in a three part tutorial series about getting started with Mambo. In this tutorial we deal with creating a MySQL database through either phpMyAdmin or cPanel, and creating a database user. We deal with database collations and permissions in preparation for installing Mambo.

In this tutorial we look at how to turn off MySQL Strict Mode. By default, MySQL5 is enabled with strict_mode ON.
Mambo currently does not fully support MySQL5.x in strict_mode (this is on the roadmap and will be dealt with when we move to database portability so Mambo will run on other database servers, not just [...]