Upgrade Tip, My SQL Password

If your hosting service is like mine you had WordPress installed for you. So I never entered a password to remember or write down for My SQL Database. When I looked into the Cpanel Icon for My SQL Data base it had the various bits of information I needed to proceed on with the installation and I ASSUMED the same password I had gotten to access the CPanel was used for the MY SQL Db. No so. Anyhow, when I had finished uploading the files to my server and I went back to my browser to work on my admin settings needless to say I got the old error message. Either your server is down or you did something wrong dummy! Well where do you find the password for your My SQL Db? If you had WordPress previously installed there is a wp-config file that already exists and it worked before, why should the information in it not continue to be valid. Well it was. I went back there and WOW there it was, the most secure password I’d seen since last… I was going to say I worked with nuclear weapons, but who knows the NSA might hack into this. But it was a hell of a password which I just cut and paste into the new wp-config.php and viola, it worked.
Thought I might share that if you had a previously installed version of WordPress and backed up your files go look at your old wp-config file and you’ll find the info you’ve been using all along and which should work in the new installation.