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Thanks for you help. Unfortunately this didn’t fix things and ultimately I’ve had to restore to a snapshot to fix the issue which is unfortunate as I’ve lost a week of work :| I’m going to get some specialist database input moving forwards, lesson learned.
When I type sudo service mysql status I get the response:
mysql stop/waiting
It seems that the MySQL server is not started or does not exist. Please check that you have installed (previously uninstalled perhaps?) MySQL server and that it is running properly. One way to check if MySQL is running is by running any of the following commands:
# ps aucx | grep mysqld
/etc/init.d/mysqld status
sudo service mysqld status
If you are running systemd systems:
sudo systemctl status mysqld.service