Macos – bash: service: command not found

I was having an issue running a mysql command and saw suggestions on a few issues online that suggested using the service command and it seemed to be that it was something that I should have by default.

I had been installing a few homebrew packages, so I'm not sure if that could have caused it? I have never used this command before, so I'm not entirely sure.

Attempting to run the command sudo service mysql start
returns

sudo: service: command not found

I have not got much experience using the terminal, so apologies. I saw a lot of comments suggesting that the service command is located in /usr/sbin/ and also possibly /sbin/service but I could not find it in either.

my .bash_profile is as follows

export PATH=~/.composer/vendor/bin:$PATH
export PATH=/usr/local/php5/bin:$PATH
export ANDROID_HOME=$HOME/Library/Android/sdk
export PATH=$PATH:$ANDROID_HOME/emulator
export PATH=$PATH:$ANDROID_HOME/tools
export PATH=$PATH:$ANDROID_HOME/tools/bin
export PATH=$PATH:$ANDROID_HOME/platform-tools
export PATH=$PATH:/home/user/bin
export PATH=$PATH:/sbin

The two exports at the bottom were from suggestions in other questions but neither seemed to work.

Any ideas? Any help would be greatly appreciated.