How to turn Event Scheduler On permanently in MySQL?

How do I turn on the event scheduler in mysqld permanently? I'm using phpMyAdmin and I have scheduled an event to copy records from one table to another everyday at a specific time, but the records are not being copied everyday. I've tried setting the event scheduler on.

SET GLOBAL event_scheduler="ON";

When I restart my pc, the event scheduler is turned off. How do I make it be always on, and not turned off when mysqld is restarted?

This is quite an easy one really (one of those "Doh" moments :-) ).

You set it in my.cnf as described here:

[mysqld]
..
.. other_stuff
..
event_scheduler=on
..
.. more_stuff
..

(or my.ini if you're running Windows as pointed out below)

From the MySQL documentation here, you have:


When the Event Scheduler is ON, the event scheduler thread is listed
in the output of SHOW PROCESSLIST as a daemon process, and its state
is represented as shown here:

A daemon process is one that runs in the background as described here. Also known as a service in Windows

So, run:

mysql> SHOW PROCESSLIST\G

and there should be an entry like this:

*************************** 2. row ***************************
     Id: 2
   User: event_scheduler
   Host: localhost
     db: NULL
Command: Daemon      <<<<<====== Note: Daemon!!!
   Time: 3
  State: Waiting for next activation
   Info: NULL
2 rows in set (0.00 sec)

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