Important MySQL and Ubuntu Console Commands

Anvesh Patel — Sun, 13 Sep 2015 17:07:30 +0000

In this post, I am sharing few important commands for MySQL and Ubuntu.

Let’s first see the MySQL Command:

You can execute this all commands in the root directory of the MySQL.

Check MySQL is running or not:

mysqladmin -u root -p ping

Check MySQL Current Version:

mysqladmin -u root -p version

Check MySQL Current Status:

mysqladmin -u root -p status

Check MySQL Server Variables:

mysqladmin -u root -p variables

Check status of MySQL Server variable’s values:

mysqladmin -u root -p extended-status

Check running all MySQL Server Processes:

mysqladmin -u root -p processlist

Safely Shutdown of MySQL:

mysqladmin -u root -p shutdown

Let’s see the Ubuntu Commands:

Check MySQL is running or not:

sudo netstat -tap | grep mysql

Start MySQL Service:

sudo start mysql

Restart MySQL Service:

sudo service mysql restart

Stop MySQL Service:

sudo stop mysql

Check Status of MySQL Service:

service mysql status

Check MySQL Config File:

sudo nano /etc/mysql/my.cnf

To Change MySQL Root Password:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure mysql-server-5.5

You can also visit this article to reset MySQL Root Password:

How to reset MySQL root Password in Ubuntu

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