MySQL on MacOS X

Download MySQL for MacOS X

You can download the MySQL Community Server on the MySQL site. The download link is: http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/

Install MySQL for MacOS X

After downloading the img file you just follow the installation instructions.

Running MySQL for MacOS X

If you want to run it from the command line you can do the following:

# /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysqld_safe

You can also pass in options (if you don’t have your my.cnf setup) to mysqld_safe. One that I use commonly is:

# sudo /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysqld_safe –lower_case_table_names=1

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