1.3.8a all security updates.

I’m on a shared server on Dreamhost and sometime back I was getting server errors when trying to run the Reset Master Category ID in Store Manager. After a lot of back and forth and noting that my store was not a big one (about 5,000 items) they adjusted for that one process so I can run it again.

However, I still could not run things like Google sitemap and when I noticed ( for the first time!) that the price sort wasn’t working for new items I tried to run the Update Price Sorter and got similar time out related errors. The process was killed by the server essentially as it was for the master ID.

My question is, is there anyway to do any/all of the Store Manager procedures via the SQL database itself or some other method?

Thanks for reading!