The following is a cheat sheet of basic syntax used to set up, and manipulate databases using Mysql. This cheat sheet assumes that you already have mysql installed and initialized on your VM. First, ...

Exit out of the MySQL prompt with the command exit; Your WordPress instance (set up with the proper user credentials for the database) should be able to use the remote MySQL server as its database ...

This brief tutorial will show you how to use a PHP 5.x MySQL extension called, MySQL Improved, to implement MySQL-based transactions with PHP.