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MySQL

Create Roles and grant privileges​

CREATE DATABASE demo;

CREATE USER 'students'@'%' IDENTIFIED WITH mysql_native_password  BY 'super-strong-pw';
GRANT SELECT ON demo.* TO 'students'@'%';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON `edu\_%` . * TO 'students'@'%'; -- students can create tables with prefix edu_
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

MySql 8+ Authentication​

When you want to be able to connect from standard clients as Sqlectron, change the authentication method:

alter user 'root'@'localhost' identified with mysql_native_password by 'plaintext-pw';
alter user 'root'@'%' identified with mysql_native_password by 'plaintext-pw';
alter user 'mysql'@'%' identified with mysql_native_password by 'plaintext-pw';

Max Connection Errors​

Configure mysql my.cnf (create it when it does not exist) under /var/lib/dokku/services/mysql/<app-name>/config/my.cnf

/var/lib/dokku/services/mysql/<app-name>/config/my.cnf
[mysqld]
lower_case_table_names = 1
max_connections = 1000
max_connect_errors=10000
Current Configuration
SHOW VARIABLES;