database error host problem

[Vincent Titus]

hey hey long time no see lol just getting back into he mix got a devorce lol i know this is my hosts problem they create my data bases with a dash ( - ) in them its automatically done and it gives me errors on the arcade install and other mod installs is there maybe anything that could be updated in the arcade install to account for that....

[Chen Zhen]

Ask your host to remove the dash in your SMF database.
After that you can just adjust your SMF Settings.php file with the new database name.