Title: install problem: cannot select the database
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# install problem: cannot select the database

 *  Resolved [jlsarralde](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jlsarralde/)
 * (@jlsarralde)
 * [17 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/install-problem-cannot-select-the-database/)
 * Hi,
    I am a new wordpress user and I am having problems to install. After solving
   the first problem, error connecting database, now the problem is “cannot select
   the database”
 * Any of you have an idea to solve this problem
 * Thanks
    José Luis

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 *  Thread Starter [jlsarralde](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jlsarralde/)
 * (@jlsarralde)
 * [17 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/install-problem-cannot-select-the-database/#post-848091)
 * Solved:
 * I hadn´t assign privileges to use the database I just had created.

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

 * In: [Installing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/installation/)
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 * Last reply from: [jlsarralde](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jlsarralde/)
 * Last activity: [17 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/install-problem-cannot-select-the-database/#post-848091)
 * Status: resolved

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