Re: [cobalt-users] MySql database setup (help out my Cobalt hoster)

["Steve Werby" <steve-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Cubicware admin" <cubicware@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I've purchased several domains from a Cobalt hosing user. So far so good.
> I've asked him to add some MySql databases for me - but unfortunately
either
> he doesn't quite know how to do it or I dont quite know what to ask him.

Scary - anyone become a web hosting company.  What Cobalt server?  Are you
sure it has MySQL installed?

> Perhaps if it wouldn't be to much trouble would someone mind posting the
> mysql commands that he will need to run in order to set up a database on
his
> server that I will be able to then login to and create tables and data and
> so on from localhost and remotely (web app)?

You're very proactive.  I like that.  Everything the hosting provider needs
to know is in the manual at http://mysql.com/doc/ and any competent server
administrator should be able to figure out what's necessary in an hour or
two.  I was going to post exactly what to do, but I wonder whether MySQL is
even installed and I have to say that if your hosting provider needs his
users to tell him how to create MySQL databases that's a red flag that
there's more trouble to come.  Have him read the MySQL manual, install
phpMyAdmin ( http://www.phpwizards.net/ ) or pay someone to get him up to
speed on the basics of administering MySQL databases.  I'm not helping
someone who sends his customers to do his dirty work.

> I understand what I need to do
> once I have access, but I am not sure how to do the server side setup. On
> another hosting company I use, I just asked for a database and they gave
me
> a userid and password and I was all set.

Perhaps you and the hosting provider should switch places.  ;-)

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