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Warren Johnson
6,870 PointsMySQL connection problem: Unable to connect MYSQL Workbench to existing WAMP installation
I am following the course movie from Deep Dives: Introduction to Databases outlining the installation of MySQL/MySQL Workbench. I proceeded to install the MySQL Workbench from the mysql.com site. However, I was unable to connect the product to the existing WAMP instance of MySQL already running on my local machine. The workbench is able to "see" the WAMP instance. However it keeps prompting me for a username/password combination, when I know that I didn't set one (It keeps throwing me an error when I try to "enter" through it - "Unable to Connect to MySQL instance"). I even went in to phpmyadmin and made sure that I set the passwords to the ALL the default user profiles to none. Need help...
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James Barnett
39,199 PointsIf you didn't set a username/password in MAMP for your MySQL instance, you should probably do that first.