How do you start MySQL using the command prompt?

To start MySQL, you can use the cmd command line interface by following these steps:

1. Open the cmd command line interface. You can find and open it by typing “cmd” in the Windows search bar.
2. Navigate to the bin folder in the MySQL installation directory. By default, MySQL is installed in the Program Files folder on the C drive, and the bin folder contains the executable files for MySQL. To switch to this directory, you can use the following command:
3. Navigate to the bin folder located at C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server X.X.
4. You need to replace X.X with the version number of MySQL that you have installed.
5. Start the MySQL server using the following command:
6. mysql.exe -u username -p
7. You will need to replace “username” with a valid username in MySQL. After running this command, the system will prompt you to enter a password.
8. After entering the password, press the Enter key to log in to the MySQL server.

Please note that by adding the bin folder of the MySQL installation directory to the system’s environment variables, you can start the MySQL server with the “mysql” command from anywhere without having to switch to the bin folder.