Change MySQL user's password in bulk Sometimes we need to change the password of mysql users at bulk. Lets say your company has fired a group of peoples or dissolved a project. This requirement can be supplied as : We can achieve the same by changing the password field in mysql.user table. Password() is a predifined method in mysql which generates encrypted value of a certain string. host update mysql.user set password = PASSWORD("passwd") where host IN (<Comma separated list of HostName/IP>); user update mysql.user set password = PASSWORD("passwd") where user IN (<Comma separated list of ‘user’@’host’>);
Start mysql in Ubuntu without having root privilege:- If you want to use mysql in Ubutu you can use following command which will use a root level privilege $ mysql -u root -p Enter password: Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with ; or \g. Your MySQL connection id is 147 Server version: 5.1.49-1ubuntu8.1-log (Ubuntu) When it demands to enter the password fill it with 'root' and hopefully you'll get logged in . Last_insert_id():- (with no argument) returns the first automatically generated value that was set for an AUTO_INCREMENT column by the most recently executed INSERT statement to affect such a column. For example, after inserting a row that generates an AUTO_INCREMENT value, you can get the value like this: mysql> SELECT LAST_INSERT_ID(); Database():- Database() method returns the current selected database and you can use it in your communication and your queries. The syntax is : mysql>select Database (); User():- It a...