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Re: Your connection attempt failed for user 'root' from your host to server at localhost:3306: Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: YES)
Posted by: Mike Lischke
Date: March 10, 2016 01:44AM

The approach to solve this is always the same:

- See if you have a server locally installed
- See if that is running
- Try connecting from a terminal window
- Check the log file of the server
- If all that is fine *then* check if you have the correct credentials and port for your server

Mike

Mike Lischke, MySQL Developer Tools
Oracle Corporation

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