$ sudo rpm -ivh Install the MySQL 8.0 Server and Start MySQL Service $ sudo yum install mysql-server Run the commands to download repository for MySQL 8.0 Installation.

MySQL Installation Remove/Uninstall the MariaDB package if it’s installed in CentOS 7 $ sudo yum remove mariadb mariadb-server Delete/Remove the config files $ sudo rm -rf /etc/my.cnf /etc/my.cnf.d Add the MySQL 8.0 Repository Then we illustrate how to retrieve the MySQL root password, alter it and create a database in CentOS 7 Linux VPS. In this tutorial, we show how to install MySQL 8.0 Community version which is currently the latest version with very powerful features, yet very easy to set up and use. MySQL is a relational database system with Structure Query Language (SQL) commands for managing relational databases. It’s available both as community version (free) and enterprise version (paid) which has more features for enterprise environment. MySQL is one of the most widely used open-source database platform globally.

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