Title: Database error after server transfer
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Database error after server transfer

 *  [saqib62](https://wordpress.org/support/users/saqib62/)
 * (@saqib62)
 * [15 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-error-after-server-transfer/)
 * Recently I moved from one server to another by the same hosting provider Serversea
   for my domain [http://www.brandasy.com](http://www.brandasy.com). While they 
   transferred the front end, they asked me to do the back-end transfer i.e. the
   database on my own. After I imported the database backup which was so successful,
   I’m getting this 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 brandasy_brand
   database. • Are you sure it exists? • Does the user brandasy_saqib have permission
   to use the brandasy_brand database? • On some systems the name of your database
   is prefixed with your username, so it would be like username_brandasy_brand. 
   Could that be the problem?
 * Now I’ve gone through the forums but I can’t find the answer.
 * The database definitely exists, so does the username. There’s no permission option
   in the version of cpanel that I’m provided with so I reckon the user has all 
   privileges by default.
 * What else could possibly be the problem? What can I do?
 * And if there’s something wrong at the hosting end, what could that be? What should
   I ask them to do?

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 * [Database Error](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/database-error/)
 * [server transfer](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/server-transfer/)

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 * Last reply from: [saqib62](https://wordpress.org/support/users/saqib62/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-error-after-server-transfer/)
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