How To Unblock AWS RDS Connections

Author: , October 24th, 2012

Recently, I had a client site outage. AWS had a major EBS failure on Zone B, and one of the instances never recovered. One of the major issues was the inability to connect to the RDS service:

It turns out two steps were required for resolution: 1. Reboot the instance to get network access […]

How To Change The Root Password In MySQL

Author: , October 26th, 2011

Using mysqladmin on the command line If you have never set a root password for MySQL server, the server does not require a password at all for connecting as root.

To set the root password for the first time, use mysqladmin:

However, if you want to change (or update) a root password, then […]