I had been using SQL Server and am now using MySQL for a project. With SQL Server, our developers can connect to the remote database on their local machines if they know the host, username, password. With MySQL, though, to give a developer access from their local machines, I have been having to log in to MySQL and execute:
GRANT ALL ON *.* to user@address IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
flush privileges;
Where address is the IP address of the developer's machine. Of course, if they change networks, I have to execute it again. Is there a way to allow all remote connections like I have experienced with SQL Server, or is this a bad idea for some reason? We have username and password still.. I'm obviously a little confused.
Also: this is a development database and is only accessible from our internal network. I understand why it is a bad idea to give everyone access to a production database.