Upgrading MySQL

As usual I wasn’t following instruction while trying to update MySQL on my dev laptop. There’s some decent upgrade documentation on the MySQL site (here if you’re looking for it.) but its a lot to thing about all at once and all the warnings didn’t seem to apply to the databases I had. The first thing I didn’t do was backup the database. I figured the installer would see that I had MySQL on the machine and would update things accordingly. I was wrong. The second thing I didn’t do was uninstall the MySQL service that was currently running. So, after the installer failed to configure the service, I was a bit stuck.