Title: Can't Select Database
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Can't Select Database

 *  [Hammer02](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hammer02/)
 * (@hammer02)
 * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-select-database-17-2/)
 * Have 3.3.1 installed for one blog successfully.
    Installed a second instance 
   of 3.3.1 and having trouble selecting database. I created a new database, but
   when I run install.php I get the following error:
 * ——————————–
    Can’t select database We were able to connect to the database server(
   which means your username and password is okay) but not able to select the lobstercoast
   database.
 * •Are you sure it exists?
    •Does the user root have permission to use the lobstercoast
   database? •On some systems the name of your database is prefixed with your username,
   so it would be like username_lobstercoast. Could that be the problem? ____________________________________
 * I am running
    Windows Server 2003 IIS 6 MySql 5.2
 * Any help with this error would be appreciated.
 * ———————————–

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-select-database-17-2/#post-2543763)
 * There is nothing we can really add to the error message you received.
 *  Thread Starter [Hammer02](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hammer02/)
 * (@hammer02)
 * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-select-database-17-2/#post-2543884)
 * I uninstalled 3.3.1 and installed 3.2 and everything works fine.

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