// Grant appropriate permissions for people to access create database INODE DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf-8; grant all on INODE.* to 'k-int'@localhost identified by 'k-int'; grant all on INODE.* to 'k-int'@localhost.localdomain identified by 'k-int'; grant all on INODE.* to 'k-int'@'%' identified by 'k-int'; FLUSH PRIVILEGES Useful info.. Here is my my.cnf file from /var/lib/mysql [mysqld] default-table-type=InnoDB # Comments start with hash # Test logging log=/var/log/mysqld.log This makes default table type innodb and logs important things to /var/log/mysqld.log The following index helps with performance of the place table create index PAF_KEY_IDX_2 on KIIE_PLACE(PAF_KEY,PLACE_TYPE);