In some cases, you might want to run multiple instances of MySQL on a single machine. You might want to test a new MySQL release while leaving an existing production setup undisturbed. Or you might want to give different users access to …

Mar 11, 2021 · It is easy to install and configure multiple instances of SQL Server on the same machine. You can create multiple named instances and store the system database, and log files in separate directories.

Apr 4, 2009 · There are various methods to run multiple instances of mysql (on different ports) on the same machine. Here I have used the same binary and used a separate configuration file (with separate port, pid, socket and data directory).

Dec 2, 2020 · The basic idea is to create separate configuration for each desired instance with its own process name, port number, pid file, socket file and datadir attributes. You can use it to easily create 3 instances for your website – development, testing and production – …

We searched for an easy method to create as many individually running MySQL instances on one computer as we want. Each instance should have its own data directory so we can separate loads across multiple mysqld daemons and set up replication for different servers onto one server.

Aug 2, 2020 · Let’s create a file my_multi.cnf in /etc/mysql/ with following content. You may create another server following the same steps above.

Nov 4, 2015 · This is a quick setup guide of 10-steps to install and configure (multiple) MySQL instance on 3307 port, and make it slave from MySQL running on port 3306. This post will help you configure second MySQL instance on same machine and …

Jan 19, 2009 · There are various methods to run multiple instances of mysql (on different ports) on the same machine. We can either compile the mysql binary with different defaults and paths, use mysqld_multi or the MySQL Sandbox project.

The procedure for starting a single MySQL server manually from the command line is described in Section 2.3.3.6, “Starting MySQL from the Windows Command Line”. To start multiple servers this way, you can specify the appropriate options on the command line or in an option file.

Aug 26, 2014 · Support engineer Fernando Laudares details how to use mysqld_multi to run multiple instances of MySQL concurrently, and transparently, on the same server.