How to Reset Root Password in MySQL 8.0
In an unfortunate event of forgetting or losing your MySQL root password, you will surely need a way to recover it somehow. What we need to know is that the password is stored in...
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How to Transfer All MySQL Databases From Old to New Server
Transferring or Migrating a MySQL/MariaDB database between servers usually takes only few easy steps, but data transfer can take some time depending on the volume of data you would like to transfer. In this...
How to Install Latest MySQL 8.0 on RHEL/CentOS and Fedora
MySQL is an open source free relational database management system (RDBMS) released under GNU (General Public License). It is used to run multiple databases on any single server by providing multi-user access to each...
How to Monitor MySQL/MariaDB Databases using Netdata on CentOS 7
Netdata is a free open source, simple and scalable, real-time system performance and health monitoring application for Unix-like systems such as Linux, FreeBSD and MacOS. It gathers various metrics and visualizes them, allowing you...
Mytop – A Useful Tool for Monitoring MySQL/MariaDB Performance in Linux
Mytop is an open source and free monitoring program for MySQL and MariaDB databases was written by Jeremy Zawodny using Perl language. It is much similar in look and feel of the most famous...
How to Change Default MySQL/MariaDB Port in Linux
In this guide we’ll learn how to change the default port that MySQL/MariaDB database binds in CentOS 7 and Debian-based Linux distributions. The default port that MySQL database server is running under Linux and...
How to Check MySQL Database Size in Linux
In this article, I will show you how to check the size of MySQL/MariaDB databases and tables via the MySQL shell. You will learn how to determine the real size of a database file...
How to Reset WordPress Admin Password via MySQL Command Prompt
Sometimes, a WordPress user, with one of the following capabilities, such as administrator, editor, author, contributor or subscriber, forgets its login credentials, especially the password. WordPress password can be easily changed via “Lost password”...
12 MySQL/MariaDB Security Best Practices for Linux
MySQL is the world’s most popular open source database system and MariaDB (a fork of MySQL) is the world’s fastest growing open source database system. After installing MySQL server, it is insecure in it’s...
How to Test PHP MySQL Database Connection Using Script
MySQL is a popular database management system while PHP is a server-side scripting language suitable for web development; together with Apache or Nginx HTTP servers, are the different components of the LAMP (Linux Apache...
