ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user ‘username’@’%’ (using password: YES)

The above given is a simple error which shows that the user don’t have access to login from the console but this can turn into a nightmare if you were able to login a couple of moments ago and now you are getting this error. After a couple of moment when you enter a command show databases and you only get test database and nothing else, you will certainly knock your head in the wall. but keep calm take a deep breath, think twice and then shutdown the MySQL Server.

Go to /etc/my.cnf

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