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John Peter
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Two ways to Change password of root user in Mysql
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1. mysqladmin 
mysqladmin bin used to set the root password with below statement.

Syntax
mysqladmin -u <user-name> -p<password> password <new-password>

Example
mysqladmin -u root -pmysql password mysql2
2. Update query 
Normal Update query to change the password of root user.

Syntax
UPDATE `mysql`.`user` SET `password` = PASSWORD("new-password") WHERE `user` = "user-name"

Example
UPDATE `mysql`.`user` SET `password` = PASSWORD("mysql") WHERE `user` = "root"
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