Installing MySQL 5.0.

15 Database On Windows
MySQL is a really popular, Relational DataBase Management System
(RDBMS), from the open source domain. It is used extensively by
communities that wish to establish a dynamic web presence.

MySQL was created by a company owned by two Swedes, David Axmark

and Allan Larsson and a Finn named Michael Monty Widenius who worked
together since the 1980's in Sweden. They pride themselves in being a
truly, second generation, open source company. With MySQL they have a
dual licensing policy that helps support open source values while being
a profitable, sustainable business.

All software that wishes to participate in the Open Source game plan must
abide by the GNU Public License (GPL). The GPL dictates that all software,
(in this case MySQL) can be used at no cost and that its source code is
also made available under GPL.

This also means that if MySQL code is required for the application to
function or if MySQL is distributed along with the software application, the
application's source code must be also made available at no cost.

Some of the world's largest organizations Sabre Holdings, Cox

Communications, The Associated Press, NASA and Suzuki have obtained
significant cost savings by using MySQL to power their Web sites and
business critical enterprise applications and packaged software.

Because many commercial organizations use this product, MySQL chose to

privately license the software. This permits the commercial application
using MySQL as their Db engine of choice, to keep their application source
code private. Private licenses can be acquired on a per database server
basis, starting at $200 for a single unit (or less, if there are a huge
number of users).

MySQL works in perfect harmony with PHP, Perl, Python and Pascal and a
host of other languages. If any ANSI SQL / DBMS technical skills exist in
the organization of adoption, these can be leveraged on when using
MySQL, to ensure that MySQL does whatever is required of it.

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MySQL's outstanding benefits are:

‰ Sharply reduced database licensing costs
‰ A cut in system downtime
‰ Lower hardware expenditure
‰ A Reduction in administration, engineering and support costs
‰ Effortlessly handles large databases i.e. more than 50,000,000 records
‰ With MySQL there are no memory leakages

MySQL helps reduce / eliminate major problems associated with

downtime, maintenance, administration and support. It offers superior
speed, reliability and ease of use. This has made MySQL become the
preferred choice of corporate IT Managers.

Installation Process

Once the file, mysql-5.0.15-win32.zip is downloaded to the HDD, do

the following to install MySQL on a Windows box:
‰ Unzip the contents from the downloaded file using a zip utility, Winzip
is one such. This will create a folder named mysql-5.0.15-win32.
This folder holds the MySQL setup file
‰ Inside the folder mysql-5.0.15-win32, double click on setup.exe
file. This will start the installation wizard as shown in diagram 1.1

Diagram 1.1: Welcome Screen for MySQL Server 5.0

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‰ Click and the Setup Type dialog box appears as shown in

diagram 1.2. There are three types of MySQL setup that can be
performed:
o Typical: This will only install the common program and features
and is recommended for only general use
o Complete: This will install all program and features and will
consume a lot of hard disk space
o Custom: This will allow a user to select the program and features
desired, for installation along with the location for installation. This
is usually the choice of experienced users of MySQL

Diagram 1.2: MySQL Server 5.0 - Setup Type

‰ Select Complete and click . The Ready to Install the

Program screen appears. It displays the current settings such as the
setup type and destination folder as shown in diagram 1.3

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Diagram 1.3: MySQL Server 5.0 - Ready to Install the Program

‰ Click . This will commence the installation and transfer of files

to the HDD as shown in diagram 1.4. A progress bar indicates how
much of the installation has completed.

Diagram 1.4: MySQL Server 5.0 - Installation

‰ After installation is complete, the screen as shown in diagram 1.5

appears. This screen provides the following three options:
o Create a new free MySQL.com account: Choose this option to
create a new MySQL.com account

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o Login to MySQL.com: Choose this if a MySQL.com account

already exists
o Skip Sign Up: Choose this option to skip setting up the
MySQL.com account
‰ Select the third option i.e. Skip Sign-Up and click as shown
in diagram 1.5

Diagram 1.5: MySQL Server 5.0 - MySQL.com Sign-Up

‰ A screen showing Wizard Completed message appears. This screen

indicates that the setup has finished installing MySQL Server 5.0
There is an option to configure the MySQL Server, this will generate an
optimized MySQL configuration file, set the password for the root
account and then create and setup a windows service running on a
dedicated port. Select the option Configure the MySQL Server now
as shown in diagram 1.6

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Diagram 1.6: MySQL Server 5.0 - Wizard Completed

‰ Click and the screen Welcome to the MySQL Server
Instance Configuration Wizard appears. This process allows the
configuration of the MySQL Server 5.0 server instance as shown in
diagram 1.7

Diagram 1.7: Welcome screen of MySQL Server Instance

Configuration Wizard 1.0.7

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‰ Click . The next step in this wizard is the MySQL Server

Instance Configuration. There are two types of configuration:
o Detailed Configuration: This type of configuration will allow
optimizing the MySQL DBMS server setup for the machine on which
MySQL is being installed
o Standard Configuration: This type of configuration is usually used
on machines, where MySQL is being installed for the first time. This
configuration process uses general purpose configuration values,
after which MySQL can be tuned manually
‰ Select Detailed Configuration and click as shown in
diagram 1.8

Diagram 1.8: MySQL Server Instance Configuration

Wizard - Configuration Type

‰ The next step is to select the server type for the Server Instance. The
selection will have a direct impact on memory, disk and CPU usage. As
shown in diagram 1.9. There are three server type options available:
o Developer Machine: This is used for a development environment
where many other applications run concurrently along with MySQL.
Memory usage for the MySQL DBMS Server will be kept minimum
o Server Machine: This is used when configuring MySQL on a server
where many server type application processes run, such as
application, web and mail server processes. Memory usage of
MySQL DBMS Server will be kept medium

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o Dedicated MySQL Server Machine: This is used when configuring

MySQL on a dedicated database server where only MySQL Database
Server processes run no other server processes like application,
web or mail servers will run on the same machine. Memory
utilization for MySQL DBMS processes will be maximum

Diagram 1.9: MySQL Server Instance Configuration

Wizard - Server type

‰ Select the second option i.e. Server Machine and click

‰ The wizard offers three options for choosing database usage. They are:
(As shown in diagram 1.10)
o Multifunctional Database: This option will optimize MySQL for
use with a fast transactional InnoDB storage engine and the high
speed MyISAM storage engine
o Transactional Database Only: This option will optimize MySQL
for use with InnoDB as the main storage engine. However the
MyISAM storage engine can still be used
o Non-Transactional Database Only: This option will only activate
the non-transactional MyISAM storage engine. It is generally used
for simple web applications like monitoring or logging applications
and for analysis programs
‰ Select the first option i.e. Multifunctional Database and click

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Diagram 1.10: MySQL Db Server - Instance Configuration

Wizard - Database Usage

‰ The next step is to select the drive and the directory where the
InnoDB tablespace will be placed. Just below the selection of drive
and directory the details of the drive selected (i.e. its volume name
and the file system used) are displayed as shown in diagram 1.11.
Keep the defaults displayed and click

Diagram 1.11: MySQL Server Instance Configuration Wizard

- Drive Storing InnoDB datafile

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‰ The next screen permits the selection of an approximate number of

concurrent connections to the server. There are three options
available: (As shown in diagram 1.12)
o Decision Support (DSS)/OLAP: This option will allow 20
concurrent connections.
o Online Transaction Processing (OLAP: This option can be used
for high number of concurrent applications connections (i.e. up to
500) active connections at a time which is usually the case with
heavily loaded web servers
o Manual Setting: In this option the number of concurrent
connections can be manually entered according to a perceived
(peak / general) load average
‰ Select the first option Decision Support (DSS)/OLAP and click

Diagram 1.12: MySQL Server Instance Configuration Wizard

- Number of concurrent connections to the server

‰ The next step in Configuration of MySQL Server 5.0 server instance is

to set networking options. First option is to enable TCP/IP Networking
i.e. allow TCP/IP connections. The second option is to enter a port
number as shown in diagram 1.13

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Diagram 1.13: MySQL Server Instance Configuration

Wizard - Networking Options

‰ Keep the defaults and click

‰ The next screen appears allowing the selection of a character set.
There are three options for character set selection: (As shown in
diagram 1.14)
o Standard Character Set: Latin1 is the default character set in this
option. It's also best suited for English and other West European
languages
o Best Support For Multilingualism: UTF8 is made default
character set in this option. It's recommended for storing text in
many different languages
o Manual Selected Default Character Set / Collation: In this
option the user can select the default character set
‰ Select the first option i.e. Standard Character Set, thereafter click

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Diagram 1.14: MySQL Server Instance Configuration

Wizard - Default Character Set

‰ The next screen is settings that can be made in Windows

There are two options i.e. Install As Windows Service to run MySQL
Server as a service on Windows and Include Bin Directory in
Windows PATH for including the directory containing the server/client
executables in the Windows PATH variable. This will allow calling
MySQL from any directory via the command line.

Select both options as shown in the diagram 1.15 and click

Diagram 1.15: MySQL Server Instance Configuration

Wizard - Windows Options

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‰ The next step is to set the security options bound to the root user's
password. Select the first option i.e. Modify Security Settings. Here
a root password and its confirmation have to be given as shown in
diagram 1.16. Click

Do not select the second option i.e. Create An Anonymous

Account as it will create anonymous account on the server and
will lead to an insecure system.

Diagram 1.16: MySQL Db Server Instance Configuration

Wizard - Security Options

‰ The next step indicates that the wizard is getting ready to execute the
following:
o Prepare configuration
o Write configuration file
o Start service
o Apply security settings

‰ Click to allow the wizard to proceed with these steps. As

shown in diagram 1.17

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Diagram 1.17: MySQL Db Server Instance Configuration

Wizard - Click Execute

‰ A progress is displayed, which indicates how the configuration is

progressing as shown in diagram 1.18.1. After finishing the process of
configuration the following details are displayed: (As shown in diagram
1.18.2)
o Configuration file created
o Windows service MySQL installed
o Service started successfully
o Security settings applied

‰ Click to exit the installation wizard

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Diagram 1.18.1: MySQL Db Server Instance Diagram 1.18.2: MySQL Db Server Instance
Configuration Wizard - Processing Configuration Wizard - Configuration
Configuration Finished

This completes the MySQL installation on Windows.

Starting The MySQL Command Line Client On Windows

‰ Now open MySQL Command Line Client by clicking Start Æ All

Programs Æ MySQL Æ MySQL Server 5.0 Æ MySQL Command
Line Client as shown in diagram 1.19

Diagram 1.19: Opening MySQL Command Line Client

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‰ The MySQL Command Line Client opens up and prompts for a

password as shown in diagram 1.20. Type in the password and press
Enter

Diagram 1.20: Password prompted by MySQL

Command Line Client

‰ Once verification of password is done and the user is authenticated,

the prompt changes to mysql> as shown in diagram 1.21

Diagram 1.21: MySQL connection made

Database Storage Engines Available Under MySQL On Windows

Issue the following command at the mysql> prompt. This command

displays a list of storage engines enabled and available in MySQL On
Windows as shown in diagram 1.22
mysql> SHOW ENGINES;

OR
mysql> SHOW TABLE TYPES;

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Diagram 1.22: Storage Engines supported by MySQL on Windows

The above diagram indicates that InnoDB is the DEFAULT storage

engine. However MyISAM storage engine is supported as well.

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