MySQL - access denied for user to database 'database' (there is no database named database, nor should there be)

Hello

I'm not sure what is wrong here, I'm guessing at some point someone had run an incorrect MySQL command or something, but have't found a solution to fix this.

Basically, users cannot use their database. I even tried creating a new mysql user as a test, gave it rights to a database, and it has the same error.

The user can "show databases", but when trying to use a database the error is:

(the xxxx's are just to mask out the real names)

mysql> use database xxxxxx;
ERROR 1044 (42000): Access denied for user 'xxxxxxx'@'%' to database 'database'

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There is no database named 'database' on this server, there never was. For the heck of it I tried to create a database named 'database' just to see what would happen and it won't let me create a database called database anyway:

mysql> create database database;
ERROR 1064 (42000): You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the r
ight syntax to use near 'database' at line 1
mysql>

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So I have no idea why suddenly it's expecting MySQL users to be able to access a database named 'database'.


I checked the 'db' table in the 'mysql' database, and there's no sign of this database database.



Here's somewhere else where I do get the error - when trying to use the database 'information_schema':

mysql> use database information_schema;
ERROR 1049 (42000): Unknown database 'database'
mysql>

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(above as done as the MySQL root user)




Any ideas how to repair this?

Thanks