sol beach wrote:
Sounds reasonable, but how do I shutdown down MYSQL so I can restart with
--skip-grant-tables
option?
On 1/30/06, *Dan Trainor* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
sol beach wrote:
> I've been asked to assist the folks who own the data in the
database, but
> folks who used to maintain it are no longer with the company.
> This installation resides on a Windows 2003 server to which I
have local
> admin rights.
> What is the most painless way to get "root" access to this database?
> I am more than willing to RTFM, if anyone will point me at which
FM to read.
>
> TIA
>
Hi -
I've always used the startup option of '--skip-grant-tables'. This may
or may not be the "correct" way to do so, but we'll see what kind of
feedback we get.
I do this, then update the Password field in the mysql.user table.
HTH
-dant
Hi -
Stop the service? Kill the process? That's up to you.
hth
-dant
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