Title: Error establishing a database connection
Last modified: June 5, 2019

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# Error establishing a database connection

 *  [ifevidesty](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ifevidesty/)
 * (@ifevidesty)
 * [7 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-establishing-a-database-connection-896/)
 * I got this error message trying to install a demo wp theme. Any solution please?
 * wp_posts: Table ‘elitecreate.wp_posts’ doesn’t exist
    wp_comments: Table ‘elitecreate.
   wp_comments’ doesn’t exist wp_links: Table ‘elitecreate.wp_links’ doesn’t exist
   wp_options: Table ‘elitecreate.wp_options’ doesn’t exist wp_postmeta: Table ‘
   elitecreate.wp_postmeta’ doesn’t exist wp_terms: Table ‘elitecreate.wp_terms’
   doesn’t exist wp_term_taxonomy: Table ‘elitecreate.wp_term_taxonomy’ doesn’t 
   exist wp_term_relationships: Table ‘elitecreate.wp_term_relationships’ doesn’t
   exist wp_termmeta: Table ‘elitecreate.wp_termmeta’ doesn’t exist wp_commentmeta:
   Table ‘elitecreate.wp_commentmeta’ doesn’t exist

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 *  [Stef](https://wordpress.org/support/users/serafinnyc/)
 * (@serafinnyc)
 * [7 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-establishing-a-database-connection-896/#post-11609513)
 * You have WP installed already but you’re trying now to install a theme that has
   demo data in it? Is that correct?

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

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 * Last activity: [7 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-establishing-a-database-connection-896/#post-11609513)
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