Would you like to learn how to enable the MySQL event scheduler? In this tutorial, we are going to show you how to enable the MySQL event scheduler on a computer running Ubuntu Linux.
• Ubuntu 18.04
• Ubuntu 19.04
• MySQL 8.0.18
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Tutorial MySQL – Enabling the Event Scheduler
Access the MySQL command-line.
Enable the MySQL scheduler.
Verify the status of the MySQL scheduler.
Here is the command output:
To permanently enable the MySQL scheduler, you need to edit the configuration file named: mysqld.cnf
Add the following line under the Mysqld area.
Here is our configuration.
Restart the MySQL service.
In our example, we enabled the MySQL scheduler permanently.
