Title: WP upgrade: cannot select database
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# WP upgrade: cannot select database

 *  [sand2710](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sand2710/)
 * (@sand2710)
 * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-upgrade-cannot-select-database/)
 * About a year ago I’ve installed WP on a free hosting, everything fine for months
   no problems.
 * It worked just fine until few month/weeks ago, I’ve upgraded to 4.2.3 today so
   I think it started with the upgrade before, the first time it happened I had 
   no time and WP seems to work fine, so I just ignored the error.
 * At the end of the upgrade procedure WP tell me (is in Italian so I’m translating
   here..):
    upgrading database… – Cannot select the Database – can connect (user/
   password are correct) but can’t select the db – the user <username> have correct
   permissions to access database <dbname>
 * The hosting provider have phpMyAdmin installed, it works and I can access and
   see the database <dbname> (name is correct with the above) and the tables.
 * If I go back and forward (not sure because now is upgraded and can’t test) a 
   dialog to upgrade the database appear and once submitted it complete succesfully.
 * Now in the dashboard show version 4.2.3 is installed, but the upgrade page tell
   me there’s an upgrade available (4.2.3 itself, and if I install it again and 
   again it do the same again and again)
 * What’s wrong??

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## Tags

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

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 * Last reply from: [sand2710](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sand2710/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-upgrade-cannot-select-database/)
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