You can test whether the MySQL server is working by executing any of the following commands:
C:\>"C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server 5.1\bin\mysqlshow"
C:\>"C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server 5.1\bin\mysqlshow" -u root mysql
C:\>"C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server 5.1\bin\mysqladmin" version status proc
C:\>"C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server 5.1\bin\mysql" test
By default, mysqlshow will try to connect
using the ODBC
user. This user is not
created by default. You should specify a valid user, or
root
with the right password to check the
operation of the server.
If mysqld is slow to respond to TCP/IP
connections from client programs, there is probably a problem
with your DNS. In this case, start mysqld
with the --skip-name-resolve
option and use only localhost
and IP numbers
in the Host
column of the MySQL grant tables.
You can force a MySQL client to use a named-pipe connection
rather than TCP/IP by specifying the
--pipe
or
--protocol=PIPE
option, or by
specifying .
(period) as the host name. Use
the --socket
option to specify
the name of the pipe if you do not want to use the default pipe
name.
Note that if you have set a password for the
root
account, deleted the anonymous account,
or created a new user account, then you must use the appropriate
-u
and -p
options with the
commands shown above in order to connect with the MySQL Server.
See Section 4.2.2, “Connecting to the MySQL Server”.
For more information about mysqlshow, see Section 4.5.6, “mysqlshow — Display Database, Table, and Column Information”.
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