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Step 3: Connecting to the MySQL Docker Container

We can either connect directly to the container running the MySQL server or use a second container as a MySQL client. Let us see what the first option looks like.

Approach 1

Connecting directly to the container running the MySQL server:

$ docker exec -it mysql bash

or

$ docker exec -it mysql mysql -uroot -p

Provide the root password when prompted. With that, you’ve connected the MySQL client to the server.

Finally, change the server root password to protect ...
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