MySQL was first released internally in 1995 and to the public in 1996, with the MySQL company being founded in 2001 to focus on performance and scalability. By 2006, there were over 5 million MySQL installations worldwide. MySQL offers flexibility by being available on many platforms and provides powerful features such as full-text searching, replication, and security.

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2. • Released internally in May 1995
• First released to the general public at the end of 1996
• MySQL founded in 2001 focus on performance and scalability
• By 2006, there are more than five million active MySQL
installations worldwide, with more than 35,000 copies of the
software downloaded daily
• MySQL was acquired by Sun Microsystem in February 2008
• Flexibility: available for 12 platforms, including DEC OSF,
FreeBSD, IBM AIX, HP-UX, Linux, Mac OS X, Novell NetWare,
OpenBSD, QNX, SGI IRIX, Solaris, and Microsoft Windows.
• Power: performance and scalability are focus. New features
were added with new releases. Capability now closer to
commercial RDBMS.
• Full-Text Indexing and Searching
• Query Caching
• Replication
• Security up to the columns
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3. • Complete foreign key support
• Stored procedures
• Views
• Triggers
• INFORMATION_SCHEMA
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4. 1. Go to http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/
and download the latest version of MySQL
2. Run the gunzip mysql-4.1.9.tar.gz
command
3. Run the tar xvf mysql-4.1.9.tar
command
4. Change to the mysql-4.1.9 directory
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5. 6. Run the ./configure command
7. Compile the MySQL code with the make
command
8. Run the make install command
9. Change to the scripts directory
10.Run the mysql_install_db --user=mysql script
11.Run the ownership commands:
chown -R root /usr/local/mysql
chown -R mysql /usr/local/mysql/var
chgrp -R mysql /usr/local/mysql
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6. 1. Go to http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/
2. Open Windows Explorer or My Computer and start the MySQL
installation
3. In the Welcome screen, click Next to start the installation
4. Accept the default setup type Typical,
click Next
5. Click Back to make changes or click
Install to continue
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7. 6. Create a new account or skip sign-in,
click Next
7. In the Wizard Completed screen, click
Finish
8. In the first screen of the MySQL Server
Instance Configuration Wizard, click Next
9. In the Configuration Type screen, select
Standard Configuration, click Next
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8. 10.In the Windows Options screen, accept the
default values (do not select the Include Bin
Directory in Windows PATH check box), click
Next
11.In the Security Options screen, deselect the
Modify Security Settings check box, click
Next
12.Click Back to change any of the
configuration operations or Execute to finish
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9. 1. Check to see if MySQL is running
• For UNIX/Linux systems:
/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysqld_safe --user=mysql &
• For Windows, use the Services window
2. Run the mysqladmin version command
• For UNIX/Linux systems:
/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysqladmin version
• For Windows, change to the C:Program
FilesMySQLMySQL Server 4.1bin directory and run:
mysqladmin version
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10. • SHOW databases;
• Will show the list of databases in the mysql server
• USE mysql;
• Use database named mysql
• SHOW TABLES;
• Will show the list of tables present in the database mysql
• DESCRIBE host;
• Will show schema details for table host
• SELECT Host, User, password FROM user ORDER BY Host;
• A query to select host, username and password from user table.
• For more queries and syntax related information visit
http://www.mysql.com/
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