How to connect to a specific database in MySQL?

1 year ago
Liam
1 minute

To connect to a specific database, you can specify the database name when connecting. Here are the steps to connect to the specified database in MySQL:

  1. Connect to the MySQL server using either the MySQL client or a MySQL connection library in your programming language.
  2. Specify the name of the database you want to connect to when making the connection, for example:
mysql -u username -p -h hostname dbname

Here, the dbname is the name of the database to be connected to. Simply enter the password when connecting to access the specified database.

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