The server name is the name of the computer on which MySQL (mysqld.exe)
is running.


Sincerely,
Noel Cruz
Programmer Analyst, Human Resources Systems Fairview Information
Management Services


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From: John Sposato
[mailto:mysqldba-ezmlmshield-x65520638.[Email address protected]
Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 11:52 AM
To: LazyDBA Discussion
Subject: Re: Newbie at a terrible loss to connect to local instance

Your username is 'root' for the password you entered during
installation.

John A DAVIS wrote:

>I installed mySQL on my home computer and now I want to connect to it
>locally for some of my testing to avoid my roundtrips to ISP database.
>However, I can't figure out how to set up my mySQL Adminsitrator to
>make a database or tables! It asked me for a password during the
>install but besides that, I don't know what my username is or the
>server's name or anything to put into the connection screen of the
>mySQL Administrator (which works for my ISP database)! Same for an ODBC
driver.
>
>Any ideas? I can't believe they don't explain this somewhere in mySQL.
>For my ISP's mySQL/PHP account they sent me all the information.
>Someone out there knows this answer!
>
>Someone posted that By default MySQL installs with a root account.
>So, I type "root account" into the username window? I'm thinking not. I

>don't even understand what a root account is. During the install I
>disabled anonymous login and chose to give it a password. But I don't
>know what my server is called, I don't know what my username is, and I
>don't know what a root account is or the default for referencing it.
>Scratching head. Concepts and terms supposedly everyone is familiar
>with are greek to me. It would seem very easy and obvious, but not for
>this geek.
>
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