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@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ ddev . drush -y site:install minimal --existing-config
 
 ## Running the migration.
 
-Put the D7 files in th following location:
+Put the D7 files in the following location:
 ```
 <Project Root>/d7/sites/default/files/
 ```
@@ -37,7 +37,23 @@ There is a reference to the `sites/default/files` in the database so that struct
 The path in the `upgrade_d7_file.yml` migration file is different because this is executed inside the docker container so in the
 docker container the <Project Root> is: `/var/www/html/` but no need to re-create those folders in the host machine.
 
-Create a database called `drupal7` with the content of the old site, [check here how to create the database](https://stackoverflow.com/a/49785024/1943924)
+Create a database called `drupal7`:
+
+Use `ddev describe` to see what the host and port are for your local environment, and use that in the first line here:
+
+```
+mysql --host=127.0.0.1 --port=32779 --user=root --password=root --database=db
+CREATE DATABASE drupal7;
+GRANT ALL ON drupal7.* to 'db'@'%' IDENTIFIED BY 'db';
+```
+
+Now `ctrl+c` out of there, and, again substituting the host and port for your own, import your file from whereever you placed and named your db SQL dump:
+
+```
+mysql --host=127.0.0.1 --port=32779 --user=root --password=root --database=drupal7 < data/db.sql`
+```
+
+(Per [instructions for creating another database in ddev](https://stackoverflow.com/a/49785024/1943924).)
 
 Once the files are in the correct place and the database has been created we can run the following  to run all the migrations: