diff --git a/docs/troubleshooting.md b/docs/troubleshooting.md
index feeb34fd..9f6809ca 100644
--- a/docs/troubleshooting.md
+++ b/docs/troubleshooting.md
@@ -128,4 +128,4 @@ A workaround is to get MySQL to fall back to using `mysql_native_password` as fo
 
 - Check that you can see `govuk-docker_mysql-8_1` when running `govuk-docker ps`, if not you will need to start a service that uses mysql (for example Whitehall).
 - Bring up a mysql console inside the container: `docker exec -it govuk-docker_mysql-8_1 mysql --user=root --password=root`
-- Alter the way the root user identifies itself. `mysql> ALTER USER 'root' IDENTIFIED WITH mysql_native_password BY 'root';`
+- Alter the way the root user identifies itself. `ALTER USER 'root' IDENTIFIED WITH mysql_native_password BY 'root';`