Dbenson’s post saved me! I just ran into the same problem and it turns out I needed to change the host name and password in my wp-config to match my sql database.
Thank you so much! My former server crashed and I decided to switch to GoDaddy. I only lost about 2 weeks worth of content from my blog, but I was so worried I wouldn’t be able to upload my backup.
I have a Linux PHP account hosted by GoDaddy. I was getting the same errors until I changed “localhost” to the hostname listed in my SQL database control panel on GoDaddy. Everything immediately started working perfectly. The entire process took about 15 minutes. Uploading the files was about 5 minutes of that. Hope this helps.
