[deanhills]

I found this article on stackoverflow that describes one potential fix for the error described above.

To paraphrase the article, it suggest that the issue is an error in your my.cnf file.

you'll go into your etc/my.cnf and change

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pass=********

to

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password=********

see if that makes any difference

Thanks @fitkoh I saw that suggestion too. There were also a few others, no doubt copied from the one in stackoverflow. But with most shared hosts one doesn't have access to SSH into the server - for good reason. You can only work with what is provided by the author of WHM through cpanel. So I was hoping to find a solution in phpmyadmin - or a facility outside on the Web where one could test one's database first and there are tools for fixing errors before one imports it.