MySQL Administration

This section covers basic administration of MySQL on a UNIX-based system, including the installation of the product, how to start and stop the daemon, and the initial privileges that come with MySQL. MySQL is available for just about any operating system that exists today. One of the most popular installations of MySQL is on a Linux system, such as Red Hat Linux. However, regardless of the version of UNIX (Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, Red Hat Linux, and so forth), the basic administration tasks covered today are the same or very similar.

Installing MySQL

MySQL can be downloaded from http://www.mysql.com. To install a MySQL binary distribution, you need GNU gunzip to uncompress the distribution and a reasonable TAR to unpack the distribution. ...

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