During installation I see an error: "1142 DROP command denied to user: 'jason@localhost' ... DROP TABLE IF EXISTS

To use Zen Cart, you need to grant the "user" of your MySQL database the right privileges for security access.

For normal Zen Cart operation, you should grant at least: SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, CREATE, DROP, INDEX, ALTER permissions.

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