How to get rid of STRICT SQL mode in MySQL

Question

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How to get rid of STRICT_TRANS_TABLES once and for all?

mysql --help report

Answer 1

On Mac OS X El Capitan i created a file .my.cnf in the user home dir and set the settings for mysql under [mysqld] and then restarted mysql. Worked fine!