I am a bit confused about how to set up server database,because my host provider(is a university site),only provided me with a ftp client username and password. I don't have access to phpmyadmin.:/
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You need to ask your server admin to create a database and a user for that database to be able to install drupal. You don't need phpmyadmin but you do need a database/user.
You will have to get a username and password generated by administrator as well and maybe the computer name where the database is installed it is usually on a localhost but that depends on the way the network is setup