what table in mediawiki Database hold the page content - mediawiki

Question

What table in the mediawiki database holds the page content? I want to access the mediawiki's database directly.

Answer 1

You can take a look at the database layout of MediaWiki. The page content is located in the table text (on PostgreSQL it seems to be pagecontent)

Answer 2

I recently had a mediawiki installation go so wrong I needed to retrieve page content directly from the database. Below is the MYSQL statement I was able to use to retrieve the page content with.
SELECT `old_text`
FROM `mw_text`
WHERE `old_id`
IN (
SELECT `rev_text_id`
FROM `mw_revision`
LEFT JOIN `mw_page` ON `page_latest` = `rev_id`
WHERE `page_title` LIKE (
'%title_of_the_page%'
)
)
Note: my table prefix is mw_ yours will probably be different

Answer 3

Used this relationship to recover pages:
page.page_latest=revision.rev_id -> revision.rev_text_id=text.old_id -> text.old_text
Ref: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Page_table

Answer 4

I recently wanted to find articles containing URL, that the MediaWiki search
engine could not find for some reason. In MediaWiki 1.35 the rev_text_id
column has been deleted, so willcwf's
answer did not work for me.
Basing on information from the MediaWiki documentation, I was able to create a
SQL query that works with newer MediaWiki versions:
SELECT
(CASE
WHEN p.page_namespace = 0 THEN '(Main)'
WHEN p.page_namespace = 2 THEN 'User'
WHEN p.page_namespace = 4 THEN 'Project'
WHEN p.page_namespace = 6 THEN 'File'
WHEN p.page_namespace = 8 THEN 'MediaWiki'
WHEN p.page_namespace = 10 THEN 'Template'
WHEN p.page_namespace = 12 THEN 'Help'
WHEN p.page_namespace = 14 THEN 'Category'
ELSE p.page_namespace
END) as Namespace,
p.page_title AS Title,
t.old_text AS 'Text'
FROM
page p
JOIN slots s ON
s.slot_revision_id = p.page_latest
JOIN content c ON
c.content_id = s.slot_content_id
JOIN `text` t ON
t.old_id = REPLACE(c.content_address, 'tt:', '')
WHERE t.old_text LIKE '%needle%';