[wp-forums] Shared Hosting questions

[Handy]

So... I don't know much about shared hosting.  My experience is all with
owning the box, regardless of where it ends up.  Thus the questions.

When I see the "omg help my db disappeared" type questions, I can't help but
wonder... in a shared environment, with multiple dbs in an install of mysql,
what happens if chimpB created db named "wordpress" when chimpA already had
a db by that name?

Is that something we should watch for somehow?  I see some odd support posts
every now and then that seem to hint that the poster somehow lost their db -
or permissions to it (http://wordpress.org/support/topic/67245?replies=3 for
example).

Or am I totally worrying about something that wouldn't happen in the real
world?