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Overview

This interface allows you to list cPanel-managed databases on your server, each database's engine, and which user owns each database. You can also use this interface to rename databases.

  • It is potentially dangerous to rename a MySQL® database. We strongly recommend that you create a backup of a MySQL database that you wish to rename.
  • If you rename a database, this will terminate all active connections to the database.
  • You must manually update configuration files and applications to use the new database name.
  • Larger and more complex databases will take longer to rename.

Databases

The Databases section of the interface provides a table that lists all of the databases on the server.

Click each column heading to sort the list by that column. Search for a particular database with the Search text box.

Rename a database

To rename a database, perform the following steps:

  1. Click Rename in the row that corresponds to the database.

  2. In the Rename to text box, enter the new name for the database.

    If database prefixing is enabled, this parameter must include the database prefix for the account.

  3. Click Submit.

How cPanel & WHM renames a MySQL database