I have a machine at home with mySQL on. When the machine is rebooted mySQL is now taking over an hour to start (server has been up 68 minutes now and mySQL is still showing as starting in Services). I ...

I tried using the following commands to shutdown and startup MySQL and although it did, it also changed the permissions on the databases and I could no longer work ...

The archetypal MySQL database chugs along in the server room of a Web 2.0 startup, powering a small but promising Web site. In fact, a quarter of the 12 million MySQL installations are data warehouses ...