Stop, Start, Restart, Status of MySQL server

I've tired many commands, I find these to work the best using the Sys-V init scripts located in /etc/init.d.

Start:

sudo /etc/init.d/mysql start

Stop:

sudo /etc/init.d/mysql stop

Restart / reload configs:

sudo /etc/init.d/mysql restart

Check run status:

sudo /etc/init.d/mysql status