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.

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.

But in the affected versions of MariaDB and MySQL, as MontyProgram's Sergei Golubchik wrote in a list posting on June 9, the database can be fooled into accepting a password even if it doesn't match.

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 ...