ERROR 1049 (42000): Unknown database 'mydatabasename'

Question

I am trying to restore database from .sql file , i have created the database in phpmyadmin and also using the create if not exist command in the .sql file which i am restori

Answer 1

If dump file contains:

CREATE DATABASE mydatabasename;
USE mydatabasename; 

You may just use in CLI:

mysql -uroot –pmypassword < mydatabase.sql

It works.