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How to restore root to MySQL server on MAMP
See my dba.stackexchange.com answer: How to restore root to MySQL server on MAMP Assuming you went with a generic install of MySQL, my procedure for MAMP is: 1. Edit your my.cnf, probably located at: /usr/local/my.cnf, adding the lines: skip-grant-tables skip-networking 2. Restart mysqld sudo su – /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysqladmin shutdown nohup /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysqld_safe & exit 3. Change root [...]
MySQL Best Practice: Forget ALTER, use RENAME instead
MySQL is notorious for a few bummer scenarios. One of them is when you have a table with a couple hundred thousand rows or more and an indexed column or two, and you’ve been asked to add a column to meet a data model requirement. You know this will cause an outage or at least [...]
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