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 *   Forum: [Installing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/installation/)
   
   In reply to: [mySQL select database issues](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/mysql-select-database-issues/)
 *  [tripper44](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tripper44/)
 * (@tripper44)
 * [18 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/mysql-select-database-issues/#post-536651)
 * Hi
 * I fixed this by doing the following, I had my database connection setup to use
   the name ‘ben’@’localhost’ and when i used the following command in the mysql
   command line I no longer got the error:
 * SET PASSWORD FOR ‘root’@’localhost’ = OLD_PASSWORD(‘mymysqlpassword’);

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