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+[[!meta title="How can I make Dreamweaver work with my MySQL databases?"]]
+Dreamweaver’s MySQL interface interprets a “+” character as a
+space, so when looking for database “USERNAME+DBNAME” it looks for
+“USERNAME DBNAME”.
+
+CGI scripts on the web have a long history of using + as a
+substitute for space.
+
+To prevent Dreamweaver from doing this, percent-encode the “+” sign
+as “%2B”. Ask it to use a database name like:
+
+- USERNAME%2BDBNAME
+
+for example,
+
+- presbrey%2Bwiki
+
+
+