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...
Category: MySQL
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...
MyCLI – A MySQL/MariaDB Client with Auto-completion and Syntax-highlighting
MyCLI is an easy-to-use command line (CLI) interface for the popular database management systems: MySQL, MariaDB, and Percona with auto-completion and syntax highlighting. It is built using prompt_toolkit and requires Python 2.7, 3.3, 3.4,...
How to Change a Default MySQL/MariaDB Data Directory in Linux
After installing the components of a LAMP stack on a CentOS/RHEL 7 server, there are a couple of things you may want to do. Some of them have to do with increasing the security...
How to Change Root Password of MySQL or MariaDB in Linux
If you’re installing MySQL or MariaDB in Linux for the first time, chances are you will be executing mysql_secure_installation script to secure your MySQL installation with basic settings. One of these settings is, database...
How to Reset MySQL or MariaDB Root Password in Linux
If you are setting up a MySQL or MariaDB database server for the first time, chances are you will be running mysql_secure_installation soon afterwards to implement basic security settings. One of these settings is...
Learn How to Use Several Functions of MySQL and MariaDB – Part 2
This is the second part of a 2-article series about the essentials of MariaDB / MySQL commands. Please refer to our previous article on this topic before proceeding. Learn MySQL/MariaDB Basics for Beginners –...
Learn MySQL / MariaDB for Beginners – Part 1
In this article we will show how to create a database (also known as a schema), tables (with data types), and explain how to perform Data Manipulation Language (DML) operations with data on a...
