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We need to configure the root account on our new server.We still have a few more set up steps to do.
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Pretty nifty huh? For now, just start up your server. Similarly, you can stop it with brew services stop mysql. Wait a little bit and you are done! You can start the server by running brew services start mysql.
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#Running mysql on mac how to#
Here is a robust step-by-step process on how to set up a MySQL development environment on MacOS. Hopefully, this helps anyone else in a similar position. This time I’m being proactive and writing down the process here. So I end up googling how to do it and then I piece together instructions from various blogs. I’ve had to do it a couple of times and I always forget how I did it. Installing MySQL server can be a pain on Mac OS.