If that is the case, you’ll want to make sure your databases are set up with an eye to security. Thankfully, MySQL offers a handy command that goes a very long way to improve the security of ...

If MySQL is up and running, you have all the necessary software. To pull off this task, you will need the password for the MySQL user that has permissions to access the database (s) in question.

PlanetScale is basically Vitess on MySQL in the cloud, with a cloud user interface, plus a command line interface (CLI) that you can run on your own machine. The CLI can control almost everything ...

Figure 2. Connecting to the MySQL Server via PowerShell. Once the connection is made, it's always a good idea to run a simple SELECT query to ensure we can pull information from the database. I'll be ...