Security researchers have released details about a vulnerability in the MySQL server that could allow potential attackers to access MySQL databases without inputting proper authentication credentials.

This article shows you how to set, change, and recover secure passwords for your MySQL root account, so you'll never be at a loss.

Next, I'll need to make a connection to the MySQL server using the username and password we specified earlier. Here I'm specifying a MySQL server named MYSQLSERVER connecting to a database called ...

If MySQL was built on such a system, the code that compares the cryptographic hash of a user-inputted password to the hash stored in the database for a particular account will sometimes allow ...