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Q. I am new to MySQL database server. How do I show the list of databases on my server? Is there any good GUI frontend exists for the same?

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How can I import a MySQL dumpfile into my database? I’m using CentOS Linux 5 server. My old hosting provider gave me a data.sql file and I do have access to my Unix / Linux server via ssh. So How do I restore my data using command line over the ssh session?

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Q. I made MySQL backup using mysqldump -u user -h localhost -ppassword forumdb | -gzip -9 > forumdb.sql.gz command. How do I restore MySQL database backup using a shell prompt under Linux / UNIX operating system?

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How do I access MySQL server from the shell prompt (command line)?

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When you try to access MySQL database server from client such as mysql or even programming language such as php or perl you need a user account. MySQL has sophisticated user management system that controls who can access server and from which client system. It uses special tables in mysql database. In order to create [...]

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