Chad Callihan recovers from a missing database backup:
There may be no worse feeling than needing a database backup and not having one. It ranks right up there with running a DELETE statement and missing the WHERE clause. God help you if you if you suffer both of those together. If you come across that situation with a MySQL database, you might be able to recover what you need.
Read on to see how. Even so, I’d be concerned about what happens if there are foreign key constraints involved.