accessing mysql server remotely

[Duane Hill]

On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 at 12:01 -0000, d.hill at yournetplus.com confabulated:

> On Mon, 9 Jul 2007 at 23:33 -0400, fbsd at a1poweruser.com confabulated:
>
>> Just a general question about mysql remote access.
>> 
>> Is it possible to login to my remote mysql server and create a
>> new db & table using a file on the local system which contains
>> the definition statements?
>
> Sure. As long as the account name used to login to MySQL has login access 
> from the remote location.
>
> mysql -host=ip_or_hostname -user=username -password=password dbname < 
> statements.sql

My bad. The command line parameters should have two hyphens:

mysql --host=ip_or_hostname --user=username --password=password dbname < statements.sql

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