How To Download Mysql Mac

macOS has an excellent design and most tasks are easily performed. Unfortunately, if you want to install a MySQL server on your Mac, then it is not always easy, like everything else.

Hi fellow tech friends! I'm Carlie, a single mum to two children, and I am teaching myself all things tech and programming from scratch, having had no previo. MySQL for macOS is available in a number of different forms: Native Package Installer, which uses the native macOS installer (DMG) to walk you through the installation of MySQL. For more information, see Chapter 2, Installing MySQL on macOS Using Native Packages. You can use the package installer with macOS.

How to Start MySQL on Mac?

The first step is to starting MySQL Server on Mac, we need to install it. Download it from the MySQL official site:

• Select the version that matches the version of your macOS;
• Download the DMG file and run it;

• After that, open the installer that came with it, and follow the installation steps;

• WARNING! During the installation process, the program will inform you of a temporary root password. It is very important to save it somewhere to further customize the database. Otherwise, you will have to reinstall the program again.

When the installation is complete, let’s see what to do next with this program.

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MySQL.Server Start/Stop/Restart

After the installation is complete:

• Open “System Preferences”;
• You will see a MySQL icon;
• Click on it to open the “Preferences” for the MySQL server;

• After that, click on the “Start MySQL server” button to start it. Be sure to check the “Automatically Start MySQL Server on Startup” checkbox so that you do not have to repeat this step again;

• To disable the MySQL server, click “Stop MySQL server”.

If you want to manipulate the MySQL server through the Terminal, here is a list of basic commands. Start “Terminal”, write these commands and press after each “Enter”:

• mysql.server start;
• mysql.server stop;
• mysql.server restart.

Conclusion

In truth, this article is rather a superficial material for beginners who are faced with the problem of running a database on their Mac. It is possible that when using this guide, there will be a lot of questions about working with the mysql server, as this is very specific and professional software. Anyway, if you still run into a startup problem, then you will know how to act.

This should be really straightforward, but I found myself googling around. I wrote a recent post about how to create a web app with the Laravel PHP framework but connecting to the database was tricky.

First step, find out what version of OS X you are running. Click the apple icon in the top right corner of your screen and click “About This Mac”. I got something like this:

Next step, head over to the MySQL downloads page.

So with my computer I am running 10.11 and we want the .dmg file. Download Mac OS X 10.10 (x86, 64-bit), DMG Archive. Then you get to this lame screen:

MySQL is free and open source software (FOSS), you do not need to sign up or create an account. Click “No thanks, just start my download”. I let the download go directly to my “Downloads” folder when prompted, though you could place it anywhere. The download will take some time because it is 350mb, go get a coffee. Once the download is complete. Double click the file and a screen like this will open

Double click it and go through the install process.

When I did it I got an alert box:

Add to path. This went in ~/.zshrc because I am using ZSH. If you are using bash for terminal (the default on OS X) this will be the ~/.bashrc file or ~/.bash_profile. This post explains the difference between the two files.

Add the mysql download to your path so that you can use the “mysql” command from the command line.

Then test it out:

Now that we have MySQL installed and accessible from the Terminal, it’s time to connect to the database and start the MySQL server. Let’s log in as root user (root@localhost) and use that funky password that popped up in the alert window after our install. In the above case it’s #fW&tYe?<8?w

Great! Now we can create databases and run SQL queries right from the command line. That’s an awesome start, but there’s no way anyone is going to remember that password, nor is it enjoyable to type in every time we want to run MySQL. The full docs on changing passwords are here. For OSX you can run the command:

The PASSWORD('root') sets my password to “root”. Easy to remember right? You can set your password to anything you like, such as PASSWORD('myN3wp@Ssw0rd').

To stop the server in the terminal run control + D. Congratulations! You’ve installed MySQL on OSX, made it accessible from the command line and updated your password for the root user.

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Thanks for reading!

Update (9/16/17): Expired passwords

When trying to login to MySQL on OSX recently I ran into the following error:

There are a lot of StackOverflow threads and articles about this, many require writing SQL commands, though that was difficult for me without access to the terminal. In order to alleiviate this I found this SO answer that saved me:

Update 03/29/18:

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• Helpful steps for Install MySQL on macOS Sierra as a gist link.

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Update 05/14/19:

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• I recently ran into an error when trying to fire up the MySQL shell:

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I found the solution in this homebrew issue. Create an empty directory for this path: mkdir /usr/local/etc/my.cnf.d