Connecting to MySQL Database over server

Question

I\'m quite a beginner when it comes to working with networks and the like, so apologizes up front. A while back I set up a mySQL database locally on my machine, and have bu

Answer 1

You will use following commandline to connect -

mysql -u -p -h

For applications running on different machines trying to connect to your database, you only need to replace 'localhost' with your machine's hostname or ipaddress.

In, general if you are able to ping your machine from a different system, your database can be connected to from that machine, just use whatever name you used for 'pinging' in place of localhost.