MySQL Options for 3.3

Updated on December 9th, 2022


Open MySQL Workbench

Open Preferences
Under Edit click Preferences:

Untick Safe Updates

When the window opens, click on "SQL Editor" in the tree on the left.

Scroll down to find the "Safe Updates" checkbox, untick this box and click OK:


Open Local Instance
Double click on the shown local instance:


Enter the root password created during installation and click OK:

Open Options File
Under "INSTANCE" click "Options File":

Update character-set-server

In the General tab, under the International section, tick and update "character-set-server" with the following:

utf8mb4


Update collation-server

In the General tab, under the International section, tick and update "collation-server" with the following:

utf8mb4_unicode_ci


Untick general_log_file
Open the Logging tab

Under the General section, untick "general_log_file":

Set binlog-format to MIXED
In the Logging tab, under the BinlogOptions section, tick and set the "binlog-format" value to "MIXED":

Increase innodb_log_file_size value
Open the InnoDB tab:

Under the Logfiles section, set the "innodb_log_file_size" value to "256M":

Please note: This is a recommended value, it may need to be increased if blob files being inserted into the database exceed this value.



Increase max_allowed_packet value
Open the Networking tab:


Under Data / Memory size section, set the "max_allowed_packet" value to "1073741824":


Set net_buffer_length value
In the Networking tab, under the Data / Memory size section, tick "net_buffer_length" and set the value to "1048576":

Increase max_connections value
In the Networking tab, under the Advanced section, set the value of  "max_connections" to "2048":

Apply changes
When finished, click Apply in the bottom left and the following window will appear:

Click Yes to the following popup to complete making changes:

Open Startup / Shutdown

Under the Instance section, click "Startup / Shutdown":



The following pane will appear:



Click Stop Server
Click Stop server and wait for the server check to complete:

Click Start Server
Click Start Server, and wait until the green "running" has appeared:
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