Installing MySQL Community Server 5.

1 – Windows Vista MySQL Clustering

Installing MySQL Community Server 5.1 – Windows Vista

Objective

To install MySQL Community Server 5.1 in Windows Vista.

Pre-requisites

1. Download MySQL Community Server 5.1 from

http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/5.1.html#downloads

Assumptions

1. There isn’t any version of MySQL installed on the system.

Procedure

Installation

1. The installation of MySQL – Community Server on Windows is reasonably simple and is entirely
based on Graphical User Interface (GUI).
2. Download the binary for Windows from the above mentioned URL and double-click it to start
the installation.
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3. The installer opens up with the welcome page.

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4. Mention the setup type, which is typical, complete or custom. Typical installs the components
that are frequently used by a majority of developers. Complete installs all the components and
Custom allows the user to install the components on the jurisdiction of the developer.

5. Custom installation provides the developer with the choice of installing the server, client
program, instance manager, documentation and the developer components. By default
developer components aren’t installed.
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6. Select the components which you wish to install and proceed to the next step. A complete
summary of the installation and configuration paths are provided now.
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7. Click next to start the installation.

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8. After the installation finishes, an advertisement of the MySQL Enterprise edition is displayed.

9. After viewing the message, the setup wizard concludes with an option to configure the MySQL
Server. It is recommended to configure the server at installation time.
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10. Under certain circumstances, it is possible that the configuration wizard might not start. In such
situations, the configuration wizard can be started by navigating to Start -> MySQL -> MySQL
Server 5.1 -> MySQL Server Instance Config Wizard.
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Configuration

1. MySQL Server can be easily configured with the Config Wizard provided as a part of the MySQL
Installation.

2. If there is already a MySQL instance, it is possible to reconfigure it from this wizard or a new one
may be created. The sequence of steps is pretty much same for both of them. It is also possible
to remove an already running server instance.
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3. There are two ways in which the server instance can be configured – Standard and Detailed.
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4. The detailed configuration wizard provides greater flexibility to tune the server according to our
requirements. The MySQL server can be tuned with respect to memory, CPU and disk usage by
specifying the machine as a developer, server or a dedicated MySQL server machine.

5. MySQL server can be configured with respect to transaction management with the help of the
storage engines – high speed MyISAM and fast transactional InnoDB.
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6. The InnoDB datafiles will be placed by default at the install directory. It can be changed when
configuring MySQL for the first time and can be modified when the configuration wizard is run
at a later time.
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7. MySQL has the capacity to manage the incoming requests and restrict the maximum number of
concurrent connections.
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8. The default port number of MySQL is 3306. However this can be changed with the help of this
configuration wizard.
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9. MySQL has extensive support for Internationalization.

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10. MySQL is installed as a Windows Service which starts automatically at boot time. Also the bin
directory can be added to the system path.

11. In the next step, the root password can be changed. If MySQL is being installed for the first time,
just enter the new password. Else if MySQL is being reinstalled, the old root password is still
valid and is required to be specified when changing the password.
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12. A summary of the steps for configuration is specified in the next step.
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13. Click on execute to start the configuration

14. The configuration process may take a little time to finish.

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15. Navigate to Start -> MySQL -> MySQL Server 5.1 -> MySQL Command Line Client and specify the
new root password to login.
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NOTE – Though the above screen-shot uses Vista as the Operating System, the installation
procedure remains the same for all versions of Windows, including the server editions like
Windows Server 2003.