Managing active connections in MySQL is crucial for database administrators to ensure optimal performance and resource allocation. Whether you're monitoring the server's health or troubleshooting performance issues, knowing how to...
The SET PASSWORD statement allows changing the password for a user in the MySQL server. Provided password is interpreted as a clear text string. The password is passed to the...
MySQL allows encrypting and decrypt data using the official AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) algorithm.
The AES_ENCRYPT() function encrypts the string with the specified key and returns the encrypted data in...
The CREATE USER statement allows creating a new user in the MySQL server. Users are stored in the mysql.user system table. A newly created user has no privileges. The password...
When managing a database, it is often needed to get a list of users which are used to connect to the MySQL server. MySQL provides statements which allows showing databases...
In MySQL 8.0, the default authentication plugin is caching_sha2_password rather than mysql_native_password.
If application get errors related with caching_sha2_password plugin, it is possible that connector does not support this plugin...
The mysql client is a command-line tool which can be used to restore a MySQL database or a collection of databases from the backup file that contains SQL statements. For...
If you don't want to lose data, you need to make regular database backups. The mysqldump client is a command-line tool which allows backing up a MySQL database or a...