SQL error during update from 4.2.2 to 4.2.5

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Like a Psychology Today project? Just keep doing it over and over?

Done, and done, and done. No help from vB folks? Any clue would be appreciated at this point....

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Hi Wayne and thanks for your reply. As noted in the original post and another one subsequent, and now this one: yes, the BLOGS ARE TURNED ON. (And have been since prior to the update.)
Thanks again....

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Transferred a fresh copy, to be extra positive mode was correct. Same error is thrown.
How could (what settings) the server be blocking the value from being passed? It's a VB value, right? &q...

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Here's a question: will 4.2.5 run with the 4.2.2 database, or are tables modified?

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Mark.B: as noted in original post; blogs are enabled. (But thanks for commenting.) Merry Christmas.

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Keep getting SQL error, quoted below, that halts upgrade from 4.2.2 to 4.2.5 about halfway through.
Following others with similar errors posted at support forums:
-- Blogs are turned on,...

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Have same problem. Had 4.2.2 suite w/ blogs installed OK. If missing tables is it, then how to fix the problem, please?

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Have this same error going from 4.2.2 to 4.2.5. Blogs are turned on, and PHP is at 7.1.12 but still getting this error halfway through the upgrad.
Any help appreciated.

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Would be happy to show the support team a sample of the strings being sent directly to the script. Of course, would have to PM you to do that... LOL...

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The largest number seem to be directed at a fake address; email-at-gmail-dot-com. Google isn't happy and is reporting that this address is receiving mail at too high a rate. Obviously not real and probably...

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Thanks, but these guys are going straight to register.php. They don't come from a link from our site so only replacing the first step won't help -- they are going around that first step anyway. They...

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Wow. I'd really like to thank you all for your attention to this. Unfortunately the message has been broken up by the process.

This is different because these bots seem to be actually getting...

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I've already said, twice, that we DO use reCaptcha and custom security questions.

These bots are sending GET requests directly to register.php. (Note: "GET", not "POST"...

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Thanks but that's not what this is about. These guys are going directly to register.php. Got nothing to do with the actual registration process on our boards. Registration is turned off on our boards...

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This isn't about bots trying the forums. This is about bots calling register.php directly and packing the argument stream with stuff that apparently gets register.php to do things [send out emails] for...

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These are sending GET messages directly to register.php.

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Hi Steve,

Yes; human verification is turned on. Have reCaptcha + security questions (who's buried in Grant's tomb, etc.)

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Thanks for your reply and questions.

1. Haven't figured out how they are doing it. Only know four symptoms:
A. Bots have been hitting register.php directly to monstrous level --...

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We have an ongoing problem where botnets are doing direct 'GET's to vBulletin's "register.php". It appears that they are somehow using it to send out email.

We are at the current...

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Where is the "some modification" described?

Thanks....