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Figure 2.10 The output of the test query.

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If your query has successfully executed it will be stored in the Query History window.
Clicking on a query in the history will copy it back to the query window so you can exe-
cute it again. Sometimes you have to click on several of the queries before it copies it to
the main window.

By default, the client will try to connect to a MySQL server running on the local machine,
localhost . If you are connecting to a server that is not on the same machine as the client then
you can set this up by clicking the options button and replacing localhost with the host
name of the machine with the server installed. You will need to ensure that the username
that you are using has access rights from your machine, which you can read about in
Chapter 12.