Installing MySQL on MacOS and making your First Schema
A walk-through with screencaps and explanations
5 min readMay 29, 2022
Prereqs
If you haven’t done so already, add the mysql folder to your path:
% vim ~/.zshrc# Add
PATH=${PATH}:/usr/local/mysql/bin
# to the bottom of the .zshrc file
# and execute % source ~/.zshrc
Full instructions for this can be found in my other tutorial for installing and setting up MySQL on MacOS [1]