MySQL commonly used commands

Remote access:
In order to connect remotely you have to have MySQL bind port: 3306 to your machines IP in my.cnf. Then you have to have created the user in both localhost and '%' wildcard and grant permissions on all DB's as such . See below:

my.cnf

#Replace xxx with your IP Address 
bind-address        = xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

then

CREATE USER 'myuser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'mypass';
CREATE USER 'myuser'@'%' IDENTIFIED BY 'mypass';

Then

GRANT ALL ON *.* TO 'myuser'@'localhost';
GRANT ALL ON *.* TO 'myuser'@'%';

Depending on your OS you may have to open port 3306 to allow remote connections.

Specific to Amazon EC2:

• The bind-address should be: 0.0.0.0
• Your machine ip address should be added to amazon security group.