MySQL Workbench “fetching…” — cannot browse DB

Question

I\'ve been having a lot of issues lately, basically since the last time I upgraded XAMPP for OSX (v1.7.3) and/or my MySQL GUI tools. Using MySQL Workbench (v5.2.44), I can

Answer 1

The following command worked for me on windows:

C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server 5.5\bin>mysql_upgrade.exe -u root -p --force

If the root password is not set, you might need to do this before you run the command above:

mysql> SET PASSWORD FOR 'root'@'localhost' = PASSWORD('something');