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.

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Enable the MySQL scheduler.

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Verify the status of the MySQL scheduler.

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Here is the command output:

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To permanently enable the MySQL scheduler, you need to edit the configuration file named: mysqld.cnf

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Add the following line under the Mysqld area.

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Here is our configuration.

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Restart the MySQL service.

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In our example, we enabled the MySQL scheduler permanently.