Title: "Error establishing a database connection"
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# "Error establishing a database connection"

 *  [lic2thrill](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lic2thrill/)
 * (@lic2thrill)
 * [15 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-establishing-a-database-connection-244/)
 * Hello All,
 * I attempted to create another blog using both the create new site in the Super
   Admin Section and a link off of the main site. Both of these have worked in the
   past. However, for some reason now when I create a site its not spawning the 
   needed tables in the database and I’m getting the following “Error establishing
   a database connection” message. This seems quite odd considering a connection
   to the database seems to have been made when it updated the wp_user and wp_sites
   tables. Any ideas on how to fix this issue?
 * Thanks,
 * L

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 *  [Andrea Rennick](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andrea_r/)
 * (@andrea_r)
 * [15 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-establishing-a-database-connection-244/#post-1724139)
 * Check your error logs to start. (the ones on the server. If you have no idea 
   where these are, ask your webhost)
 * Start double checking some other things:
 * – did the host change some db details?
    – does the db user have all privileges
   on the db? (was that changed?) – did you try disabling plugins & creating a blog?
   Yes, plugins can interfere with this.

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 * [database connection error](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/database-connection-error/)

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 * Last reply from: [Andrea Rennick](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andrea_r/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-establishing-a-database-connection-244/#post-1724139)
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