How to uninstall or remove MySQL from Linux CentOS or RHEL - MySQL DBA Tutorial

How to uninstall or remove MySQL from Linux CentOS or RHEL 

Uninstalling or removing MySQL Server from Linux Centos or RHEL is pretty easy. Let's check the MySQL Service first if it is running and active.

sudo systemctl status mysqld

It should show you that the service is active and running.

Now to uninstall MySQL from RHEL or Centos, run below command

sudo  yum remove mysql

The above command will run the uninstallation process and ask you if you are sure to remove MySQL Server. type y and it will remove MySQL Client and MySQL Server. To make sure the MySQL Server is removed from Linux machine, you can run

sudo systemctl status mysqld

It should return you message that service does not exists.

How to uninstall MySQL Server from Linux