If you have telnet access to your provider's machine, you can test whether you have access to the database.
By the way: Access to the database depends on username, password but also the right
database. You may have the right username and password, but if you're trying to access the wrong database, you won't get access either.
Anyway: If you telnetted into your account, you can try this:
mysql -u {username} -p {database}Where you use the right username and name for the database. It will then prompt you for a password. Given the right password you can try to access the information:
show tables;which will show you the tables in your database, with
select * from {tablename};you can see if you can really pull the information from that table.
Don't forget the semicolons at the end of the line and don't use the curly braces {} I used here. In case of panic: control-C kills mysql
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