Title: SQL DB name-username
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# SQL DB name-username

 *  Resolved [jhelton](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jhelton/)
 * (@jhelton)
 * [19 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sql-db-name-username/)
 * I have looked for the answer but I am unable to find a solution. My webhosting
   company is network solutions. I uploaded wordpress and configured the php config
   file as follows: DB name “frc”, the user administering the DB is “jhamilton”,
   password is filled in with the password of the admin user, jhamilton. I go out,
   run the install file and get the error unable to establish database connection.
   Is there a more qualified DB name and username I should enter?

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 *  [cielogrande](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cielogrande/)
 * (@cielogrande)
 * [19 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sql-db-name-username/#post-482451)
 * jhelton- Typically your host would create the database and furnish you with it’s
   name and user/password combination. Did they give you the information in that
   you refer to in your post? If yes, I can’t imagine what would be wrong. If you
   simply created the name/password information from scratch, that won’t work; the
   information must correspond to what the host has designated for the database.
   
   DB~
 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [19 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sql-db-name-username/#post-482452)
 * The answer will vary depending on the host, however, the DB user and pw, usually,
   are NOT the same as the site user/pw!
 *  Thread Starter [jhelton](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jhelton/)
 * (@jhelton)
 * [19 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sql-db-name-username/#post-482888)
 * Sorry for the confusion. Started an SQU database with the provider. DB name “
   FRC”; authorized admin user name, “jhamilton”; then the password used by jhamilton
   to access the database, xxxxxxxx (I didn’t want to put the real password). Anyhow,
   placed that info into the config file and still get the error unable to connect
   to the database. I saw some postings about something called a fully qualified
   db name and fully qualified username need to be in the config file. is there 
   a difference between a fully qualified DB name and what I called it, FRC, etc.
 * Thanks
 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [19 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sql-db-name-username/#post-482889)
 * 1. I hope it’s just a typo: SQU. It should be MySQL. WP doesn’t work with any
   other type of database!
    2. The username’s format has a wide range of variation
   depending on hosts. I don’t know what a “fully qualified DB name” is. 3. Case
   sensitivity? FRC is not the same as frc. 4. Which error message you got? There
   are 2.
 *  [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/)
 * (@michaelh)
 * [19 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sql-db-name-username/#post-482890)
 * I’ve seen Network Solutions using an IP address such as for the DB_HOST.
 * What do you have for your DB_HOST?
 *  [vkaryl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vkaryl/)
 * (@vkaryl)
 * [19 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sql-db-name-username/#post-482891)
 * Sometimes your database info will need to be prepended by your “username” (which
   is what you would have been given by the host when you first signed up) – so 
   your database info will look like this:
 * `define('DB_NAME', 'username_FRC');
    define('DB_USER', 'username_jhamilton');
   define('DB_PASSWORD', 'password'); define('DB_HOST', 'localhost');
 *  Thread Starter [jhelton](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jhelton/)
 * (@jhelton)
 * [19 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sql-db-name-username/#post-482996)
 * Sorry, I should have resolved this thread. Network Solutions requres the ip address
   in the DB_Host file. I found the ip address for the SQL server in the Manage 
   section of the SQL setup and placed that into the DB_Host name. Worked like a
   champ after that.
 * Thanks to everybody that posted.

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