Step # 1: Stop the MySQL server process.

Step # 2: Start the MySQL (mysqld) server/daemon process with the –skip-grant-tables option so that it will not prompt for password.

Step # 3: Connect to mysql server as the root user without password.

Step # 4: Setup new mysql root account password i.e. reset mysql password.

Step # 5: Exit and restart the MySQL server.

Here are commands you need to type for each step (login as the root user):

Step # 1 : Stop mysql service

# /etc/init.d/mysql stop

Step # 2: Start to MySQL server w/o password:

# mysqld_safe --skip-grant-tables &

or

# mysqld --skip-grant-tables


Step # 3: Connect to mysql server using mysql client:

# mysql -u root

Step # 4: Setup new MySQL root user password

mysql> use mysql;
mysql> update user set password=PASSWORD("NEW-ROOT-PASSWORD") where User='root';
mysql> flush privileges;
mysql> quit

Step # 5: Stop MySQL Server:

# /etc/init.d/mysql stop

Step # 6: Start MySQL server and test it

# /etc/init.d/mysql start
# mysql -u root -p

1)adminnotification_inbox
2)catalogindex_eav
3)catalogindex_price
4)cataloginventory_stock_item
5)cataloginventory_stock_status
6)catalogsearch_fulltext
7)catalog_category_product
8)catalog_category_product_index
9)catalog_product_enabled_index
10)catalog_product_entity
11)catalog_product_entity_datetime
12)catalog_product_entity_decimal
13)catalog_product_entity_int
14)catalog_product_entity_media_gallery
15)catalog_product_entity_media_gallery_value
16)catalog_product_entity_text
17)catalog_product_entity_varchar
18)catalog_product_link
19)catalog_product_link_attribute_int
20)catalog_product_website
21)core_url_rewrite

Regard

Manoj Ninave

Software Engineer,
COG IT Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
www.cogitsolutions.com
n.manoj@cogitsolutions.com

One member posted following on above blog which is worth to read

Please visit the mysql official documentation here http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/information-functions.html

Please have a look at FOUND_ROWS() function. They have mentioned that it is much faster to use the query with sql_calc_found_rows rather than using a query again. And I don’t find any reason not to trust them.