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MySQL “create database” FAQ: Can you share an example of how to create a MySQL database, including (a) creating the MySQL database and (b) a new MySQL database user, with all appropriate MySQL grant permissions for that user?

Sure. I've written about the process of How to add/create a MySQL user before, but I just ran across the Drupal installation documentation, which also has a nice description for how to create a MySQL database (for use with Drupal), so I thought I'd include some of their documentation here, along with some notes from my own recent Drupal and MySQL installation.

1) Create a new MySQL database

The first part of the Drupal installation document refers to creating a MySQL database:

MySQL users FAQ: How do I show/list MySQL users, i.e., the user accounts in a MySQL database?

To show/list the users in a MySQL database, first log into your MySQL server as an administrative user using the mysql client, then run this MySQL query:

MySQL database backup FAQ: Can you share a Linux shell script that I can use to make a MySQL backup (i.e., a shell script that wraps the mysqldump command)?

I currently have a collection of websites on several different servers (including GoDaddy and A2 Hosting web servers), so I was just spending some time trying to automate my MySQL database backups. To that end, I just created a MySQL shell script that I use on each Linux server to make my database backups, and I thought I'd share that script here.

PHP MySQL socket error FAQ: I'm getting a MySQL error like "Warning: mysql_connect(): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/home/lib/mysql/mysql.sock'" when trying to connect to my MySQL database from a PHP application, what can I do to fix this?

I just ran into this problem on a new server I'm using with A2 Hosting, where the exact error I got in my PHP MySQL program is this:

MySQL Error 1293 FAQ: Help, I'm getting a MySQL incorrect table definition error message related to a TIMESTAMP column. How do I get past it?

If you ever get this MySQL Error 1293 (like I just did):

ERROR 1293 (HY000): Incorrect table definition; there can be only one TIMESTAMP column with CURRENT_TIMESTAMP in DEFAULT or ON UPDATE clause

fear not, it may not be too bad. Let's take a look.

MySQL FAQ: How can I drop a series of database tables that have foreign key relationships between them?

If you ever have a problem where you need to drop a series of MySQL database tables that have foreign key relationships between them, the key to doing this is setting the FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS variable before and after your MySQL DROP TABLE queries.

For example, something like this should work:

MySQL vacuum FAQ: How do I vacuum a MySQL database table, or an entire MySQL database?

This may be an unusual situation, but as I'm creating a new application that uses a MySQL database, I've found that I want a "MySQL vacuum" operation; I want to reset all my MySQL auto_increment counters back to 1 without having to completely drop and then re-create my MySQL database.

Specifically what I'm doing is this:

MySQL FAQ: How do I define a MySQL auto increment field?

Here's an example of the way I normally create a MySQL auto increment (auto_increment) field:

Today I was configuring a MySQL JNDI connection pool on a Glassfish server, when my brain went completely blank, and I couldn't remember what port MySQL listens on by default.

After a few moments of research, including looking at some output from netstat, I found the answer ... the MySQL default port is 3306.

3306