Hi, The behavior you reported is not a bug. You may use the wildcard characters `_' and `%' when specifying database names in GRANT statements, cf. [1]. Regards, Ansgar [1] http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/grant.html -- PGP: 1024D/595FAD19 739E 2D09 0969 BEA9 9797 B055 DDB0 2FF7 595F AD19