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Last Updated: 2024-04-25
We wanted to move from MYSQL 5.6 to 5.7.
We got rid of 5.6 from the machine by brew uninstall. Yet when we ran the
mysql client in the command line - which itself was version 5.7 mind you - it
connected to the 5.6 database.
When we LSOF-ed to view actual files in use by the process - we saw it was using some 5.6 files.
The issue was that the old daemon was still hanging around and needed to be
killed $ brew service stop mysql.