Just out of curiosity, what do you think occurred to cause this problem? I 
thought it was quite strange that I didn’t get a useable error since my 
experience with this project has always been pretty helpful errors.

Thanks,
Charlie

On Dec 2, 2013, at 3:20 PM, Robert Coli <rc...@eventbrite.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 12:14 PM, Charlie Andrews 
> <charlieandrews....@gmail.com> wrote:
> Maybe a stupid question, but doesn’t dropping a keyspace drop all data? Or is 
> the keyspace schema separate from the data it describes?
> 
> Lol, sorry, yes. You will have to restore the data from the automatically 
> created snapshot.
> 
> 1) echo "DESCRIBE KEYSPACE <keyspace_name>;" | cqlsh > 
> keyspace_name.schema.cqlsh
> 2) DROP KEYSPACE <keyspace_name>;
> 3) restore keyspace's data from the snapshots created automatically when you 
> DROP
> 4) use the contents of keyspace_name.schema.cqlsh to re-create your schema
> 5) rolling restart of all nodes (or use "nodetool refresh")
>  
> =Rob
> 

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