# Renaming a database role

**URL:** <https://forums.percona.com/t/renaming-a-database-role/1670>\
**Category:** Other MySQL® Questions\
**Created:** [September 15, 2011, 5:58am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/renaming-a-database-role/1670 "2011-09-15T05:58:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![sofia1982](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@sofia1982](https://forums.percona.com/u/sofia1982)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2011, 5:58am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/renaming-a-database-role/1670/1 "2011-09-15T05:58:58Z")

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Is it possible to rename an existing user created database role?

Or will I have to drop and create it.

Thanks.

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**Author:** ![ovais.tariq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/d26b3c/32.png) [@ovais.tariq](https://forums.percona.com/u/ovais.tariq)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2011, 4:38am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/renaming-a-database-role/1670/2 "2011-09-16T04:38:01Z")

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You can not rename an existing database, you will have to drop and recreate it.