macOS Help me Start Mysql

[ellias2007]

Hi all,
i downloaded Mysql (Version 5.1.30-osx10.5-x86), in order to use it with a Java program and Jdbc ...
After the installation is complete, i Searched the Physical files the installer creates ... i found Nothing ...
Does the installer make Phyisical files?? Hidden files ??Pref Panels?? extentions ?? What and where ??
in other hand, i read that the installer put the programme in the directory :
usr/local...
WHERE is this directory???? i searched All my Mac HD???
Please help me as i am beginner with Mysql...
Thanks

 

[eddietr]

If you installed in the default location, you should find everything you need in /usr/local/mysql

With the executables in /usr/local/mysql/bin

So assuming you add /usr/local/mysql/bin to our path, you can start the server from a terminal with:

sudo mysqld_safe

This will start the server. You can just close that terminal tab or window and the server will stay running for you.

 

[eddietr]

Also, on my machine there is control panel under System Preferences to start the server. I don't remember if that was part of the normal install or if I installed that separately.

In any case, I don't use it because I found it to be unreliable and it didn't seem possible to pass parameters to the server that way.

So I just use mysqld_safe from a shell. Much easier, and you can pass params as needed.

 

[trule]

try the first link

http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en-us&q=start+mysql+on+a+mac&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

 

[ellias2007]

If you installed in the default location, you should find everything you need in /usr/local/mysql

Yes i read this in many PDFs ... the strange thing that i searched all My hard drive for the name "local" to know this place...
i found in my HD only :
MacHD/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.5.sdk/usr/local
and
MacHD/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk/usr/local
and nothing inside ...

Also, on my machine there is control panel under System Preferences to start the server. I don't remember if that was part of the normal install or if I installed that separately

Yes, it is a part of the normal install .... but i open it ... it did nothing ... it contains only a botton that open/close MySqlServer

So assuming you add /usr/local/mysql/bin to our path, you can start the server from a terminal with:
sudo mysqld_safe

Here a tiny question :
is it necessary to stuck in the command line procedures to setup and use MySql ??? or it is possible to skip it and stay on the graphical environnement?? as i am an old Mac user (since 1990) and i Love the graphical interfaces as in the classic OS ...
not the command line ways like MS windows and Unix strategies ...
Thanks a lot

 

[eddietr]

Yes i read this in many PDFs ... the strange thing that i searched all My hard drive for the name "local" to know this place...
i found in my HD only :
MacHD/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.5.sdk/usr/local
and
MacHD/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk/usr/local
and nothing inside ...

I don't think /usr/local is visible from the Finder or searchable via Spotlight if that is where you are looking. Someone else can maybe give you a way to do that.

But if you open Terminal, then just 'cd /usr/local/mysql' and there you are. Underneath the Mac GUI is a very nice BSD-ish computer.

Yes, it is a part of the normal install .... but i open it ... it did nothing ... it contains only a botton that open/close MySqlServer

Which doesn't work for me very often. So I don't use it. I've never bothered to figure it out.

On my MacPro, I just have mysqld set to start on startup (so running all the time in other words). and on my macbook I just start it from the command line whenever it's needed.

Here a tiny question :
is it necessary to stuck in the command line procedures to setup and use MySql ??? or it is possible to skip it and stay on the graphical environnement?? as i am an old Mac user (since 1990) and i Love the graphical interfaces as in the classic OS ...
not the command line ways like MS windows and Unix strategies ...
Thanks a lot

I don't know if it's necessary. Certainly it's fairly easy to just open a terminal and type 'mysqld_safe'. Takes very little time and works flawlessly.

Then you can use whatever GUI you like to set up tables and what not. personally I like this GUI for Mysql: http://www.sequelpro.com/

But there are other choices as well.

Again, on my desktop where mysql server is always running I don't have to use terminal for this at all. Just start Sequel Pro and do what I need there.

 

[PrinceOfEgypt]

Here a tiny question :
is it necessary to stuck in the command line procedures to setup and use MySql ??? or it is possible to skip it and stay on the graphical environnement?? as i am an old Mac user (since 1990) and i Love the graphical interfaces as in the classic OS ...
not the command line ways like MS windows and Unix strategies ...
Thanks a lot

1. OS X is Unix (BSD to be exact)
2. MySQL is also "Unix"..


just my two cents.. not meant to flame anybody

 

[ellias2007]

But if you open Terminal, then just 'cd /usr/local/mysql' and there you are

Yes, thanks, u r right ... may be my question was trivial ... that is because i am not familiar with Unix (and may be i don't want) because i am very familiar with my Loved OS Classic MacOS, and since MacosX comes i did not try to give a smile to the command line strategie because i get the Bad smell of the Bad MS windows OS when i open command Line interface ...
well.... now i am in terminal.. i wrote cd /usr/local and i entered local and see inside it these three items :

MySQLCOM mysql
include mysql-5.0.51a-osx10.5-x86
lib mysql-5.1.30-osx10.5-x86

hmmmm... how to create a small database now...??See it?? fill it??? where the work will take place?? via Terminal ?? or others??
Thanks to clear this point.. or link me to a pdf that explains all the stuff??

Certainly it's fairly easy to just open a terminal and type 'mysqld_safe'. Takes very little time and works flawlessly.
Then you can use whatever GUI you like to set up tables and what not. personally I like this GUI for Mysql: http://www.sequelpro.com/

i downloaded it, it has NO documentation at all ... so i could not know how it works and what it does ...

Again, on my desktop where mysql server is always running I don't have to use terminal for this at all. Just start Sequel Pro and do what I need there.

Wow... this is Great ... i hope that i can reach this step ...

...finally, how can i Rate your answer here?? like in other forums to give you points for your usefull answers?
Thanks