Whether you're running a LAMP stack on Ubuntu or CentOS, you need to back up your MySQL databases. Learn how to do this with the help of the mysqldump command.

Because I'm more interested in discussing some of the gotcha's, I'm only going to discuss the configuration process briefly. Fortunately, all we need to do is modify the [mysqld] section of /etc/mysql ...

This is likely because when I first learned it was with command-line tools, but even so, I think command-line database tools often are the best way to interact with a database manually. Two of the ...

Jack Wallen demonstrates how to install software from the command line on Ubuntu, AlmaLinux, Arch Linux, ... sudo apt install php8.1-fpm php8.1 libapache2-mod-php8.1 php8.1-common php8.1-mysql ...

Not only have you configured MySQL 8 for remote connections, you’ve also created a user with access to all databases and connected to the remote server with both the command line and a GUI.

Fedora Linux's developers are considering replacing MySQL with MariaDB. That, in turn, might lead to Red Hat abandoning MySQL for MariaDB. Written by Steven Vaughan-Nichols, Senior Contributing ...

Maybe I'm going about this the hard way, but here's what I'm trying to do:I need to run a script on a central workstation that will run a query on two remote MySQL boxes and return the output of ...