Title: Installation Database Error
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Installation Database Error

 *  [fenris64](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fenris64/)
 * (@fenris64)
 * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installation-database-error/)
 * Step two in the installation process breaks and I see a ton of databse errors
   on the resulting step two page. Errors such as:
 * WordPress database error: [select command denied to user: ‘thellum@localhost’
   for table ‘wp_categories’]
    SHOW INDEX FROM wp_categories;
 * and
 * WordPress database error: [alter command denied to user: ‘thellum@localhost’ 
   for table ‘wp_categories’]
    ALTER TABLE wp_categories ADD COLUMN cat_ID bigint(
   20) NOT NULL auto_increment
 *  Anyone have any ideas? It seems like a permissions error on the folder structure
   at the hosting server. Could this be the case? Any help much appreciated.

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 * [database](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/database/)
 * [denied](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/denied/)
 * [installation](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/installation/)
 * [user](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/user/)

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 * Last reply from: [fenris64](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fenris64/)
 * Last activity: [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installation-database-error/)
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