Recently, I was tasked to add a MySQL database GUI for a client and came up against an issue where the database server wasn’t properly configured to accept remote connections.

Let’s dig in and configure your MySQL server to accept remote connections. I’ll be working from a 16.04 instance of Ubuntu Server, but the process is quite similar on almost every Linux ...

MySQL Server and components. When you choose a full MySQL install on Windows, the following components will be installed: The MySQL Server -- the core of the database. MySQL Workbench to view your ...