diff --git a/django/db/backends/mysql/base.py b/django/db/backends/mysql/base.py
index 8ce2c11344..02bdda199b 100644
--- a/django/db/backends/mysql/base.py
+++ b/django/db/backends/mysql/base.py
@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ class CursorWrapper(object):
             # misclassified and Django would prefer the more logical place.
             if e[0] in self.codes_for_integrityerror:
                 raise utils.IntegrityError, utils.IntegrityError(*tuple(e)), sys.exc_info()[2]
-            raise
+            raise utils.DatabaseError, utils.DatabaseError(*tuple(e)), sys.exc_info()[2]
         except Database.DatabaseError, e:
             raise utils.DatabaseError, utils.DatabaseError(*tuple(e)), sys.exc_info()[2]
 
diff --git a/tests/regressiontests/backends/tests.py b/tests/regressiontests/backends/tests.py
index b561b4eb2d..436da8c2d0 100644
--- a/tests/regressiontests/backends/tests.py
+++ b/tests/regressiontests/backends/tests.py
@@ -351,6 +351,12 @@ class BackendTestCase(TestCase):
         self.assertTrue(hasattr(connection.ops, 'connection'))
         self.assertEqual(connection, connection.ops.connection)
 
+    def test_duplicate_table_error(self):
+        """ Test that creating an existing table returns a DatabaseError """
+        cursor = connection.cursor()
+        query = 'CREATE TABLE %s (id INTEGER);' % models.Article._meta.db_table
+        with self.assertRaises(DatabaseError):
+            cursor.execute(query)
 
 # We don't make these tests conditional because that means we would need to
 # check and differentiate between: