I find it staggering that every release of Magento is a complete gamble as to whether it destroys your store or not. I’ve upgraded Magento sites about 8 times and EVERY time has been an absolute pain in the arse resulting in hours spent fixing annoying niggly errors. I now take the policy of not [...]

After upgrading a store to 1.4.0.1 I found I was unable to delete/amend products in the backend. The only solution was delete all products in the database. Here is the command/query I used. Please note: ensure you have a backup of your site and data before running this. It worked for me, it may not [...]