Dan

I'm looking forward to never making the following MySQL query again.

Code:

UPDATE `post`, `user`
SET `post`.`userid` = `user`.`userid`
WHERE `post`.`username` = `user`.`username`
AND `usergroupid` =19

Actually, that query was a godsend, saving untold hours over the manual database edits I once made to accomplish the same thing.

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