On Thu, 3 Jan 2008 09:44:43 -0800 (PST), karljcox@gmail.com wrote:
> Rik - Thanks for the reply. Yeah, I did expressed to them how
> rediculous the situation was. The only solution they offered was to
> restore my _entire_ database back to one of my backups which is,
> needless to say, very inconvenient as all of my other tables (the non-
> corrupted ones) would then lose a weeks worth of data too.

If they've got the entire database as a mysqldump output, it's not THAT
hard to lop off parts to restore just the tables you need. The output is
just giant, honkin' SQL commands, after all, and any good* text editor
should be able to manipulate it properly as plain text.

* For careful values of "good". WordPad doesn't qualify, for example.

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