How do I find out my MySQL URL host port and username

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I need to find my MySQL username  When I open the MySQL command line client  it only asks me for my password  I don t remember my username  And for connectivity with JDBC  I need the URL  host and port number  Where do I find all of these

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Easiest way is probably using command status  In the output you ll find database  user  host and port   mysql gt  status  -------------- mysql  Ver 8 0 13 for Win64 on x86 64  MySQL Community Server - GPL   Connection id           43 Current database        mysql Current user            user localhost SSL                     Cipher in use is DHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 Using delimiter           Server version          8 0 13 MySQL Community Server - GPL Protocol version        10 Connection              localhost via TCP IP Server characterset     utf8mb4 Db     characterset     utf8mb4 Client characterset     cp852 Conn   characterset     cp852 TCP port                3306 Uptime                  3 hours 32 min 40 sec  Threads  3  Questions  197  Slow queries  0  Opens  214  Flush tables  2  Open tables  190  Queries per second avg  0 015 --------------

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mysql gt  SHOW VARIABLES WHERE Variable name    hostname    --------------- -----------    Variable name   Value        --------------- -----------    hostname        karola-pc    --------------- -----------  1 row in set  0 00 sec    For Example in my case   karola-pc is the host name of the box where my mysql is running  And it my local PC host name     If it is romote box than you can ping that host directly if  If you are in network with that box you should be able to ping that host   If it UNIX or Linux you can run  hostname  command in terminal to check the host name  if it is windows you can see same value in MyComputer- gt  right click - gt  properties - gt Computer Name  you can see   i e System Properties    Hope it will answer your Q

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For example  you can try     If you want to get user  you need start query in your mysql  SELECT user       output your user  root localhost SELECT system user       --    If you want to get port your  mysql   user pass hostname port db  SELECT   port    3306 is default    If you want hostname your db  you can execute query SELECT   hostname

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If using MySQL Workbench  simply look in the Session tab in the Information pane located in the sidebar

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default-username   root password   you-know-it-better url for localhost    jdbc mysql   localhost default-port   3306

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If you use phpMyAdmin  click on Home  then Variables on the top menu  Look for the port setting on the page  The value it is set to is the port your MySQL server is running on

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If you don t know the exact variable name use like  as the result may contain more than 500 rows   mysql gt  show variables like   port

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If you want to know the port number of your local host on which Mysql is running you can use this query on MySQL Command line client --  SHOW VARIABLES WHERE Variable name    port     mysql gt  SHOW VARIABLES WHERE Variable name    port    --------------- -------    Variable name   Value    --------------- -------    port            3306     --------------- -------  1 row in set  0 00 sec    It will give you the port number on which MySQL is running     If you want to know the hostname of your Mysql you can use this query on MySQL Command line client --  SHOW VARIABLES WHERE Variable name    hostname     mysql gt  SHOW VARIABLES WHERE Variable name    hostname    ------------------- -------    Variable name       Value    ------------------- -------    hostname            Dell     ------------------- -------  1 row in set  0 00 sec    It will give you the hostname for mysql     If you want to know the username of your Mysql you can use this query on MySQL Command line client --  select user         mysql gt  select user     ----------------    user              ----------------    root localhost    ----------------  1 row in set  0 00 sec    It will give you the username for mysql

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If you re already logged into the command line client try this   mysql gt  select user      It will output something similar to this    ----------------    user              ----------------    root localhost    ----------------  1 row in set  0 41 sec    In my example above  I was logged in as root from localhost   To find port number and other interesting settings use this command   mysql gt  show variables

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Here are the default settings default-username is root default-password is null empty   mean nothing default-url is localhost or 127 0 0 1 for apache and localhost phpmyadmin for mysql          if you are using xampp wamp mamp default-port   3306

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