Installing MySQL on a Mac

You can download the the latest version of mysql on following site :
http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/

Download the "mysql-standard-ver­sion-osxversion-platform.dmg".

Double-click the disk image to mount it, double-click the installer,
and get installing!

After the installation done, we need to start the mysql server mannually.
For that open the terminal window and enter following command :

$ sudo /usr/local/bin/mysqld_safe5

Once MySQL is running, you can tell it to run in the background by hitting Ctrl-
Z, then entering this command:

$ bg


Now you can close the terminal window, if you want to check whether mysql server
is up and running please have following command :

$ ps -ax | grep mysql

This command should return a few processes that relate to MySQL.

Finally we need to connect MySQL database, please have following command :

$ mysql5