I am not on any lists for mysql. So I thought that I would ask her, Suggestions for a help list for mysql are most welcome. I have a LAMP for web site development and rarely need to touch the database admin stuff. It has been years. I am creating a new site with database but I can't get the user to have privileges. Can anyone spot what is wrong? So I connect to the server with: stephen@Avalon:~$ mysql -u root -p Enter password: Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with ; or \g. Your MySQL connection id is 11 Server version: 5.7.26-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 (Ubuntu) Copyright (c) 2000, 2019, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation and/or its affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners. Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the current input statement. mysql> =========================================== I create grants mysql> grant all on rois3324_stephen.* to "rois3324_stephen"@"localhost" with grant option; Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec) =========================================== I try to see grants mysql> "rois3324_stephen"@"localhost" -> It looks like no grants were created. And I get a confirming error from PHP. Can anyone see what is wrong? Thank you! -- Stephen