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vegplot

Joined: 19 Apr 2007
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Location: Bethesda, Gwynedd

Posted: Tue Mar 19, 13 3:24 pm Post subject: Anyone any good with MySQL?
I'm having an incredibly frustrating time trying to get the damn thing installed.

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: Essex

Posted: Tue Mar 19, 13 3:31 pm Post subject:
On Windows? It was relatively painless, only done it once though and never really used it

vegplot

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Posted: Tue Mar 19, 13 3:53 pm Post subject:
On Windows. I have other services running and it may well have some port conflicts but the errors thrown are almost meaningless. I'm in the process of removing all other services and starting again.

JohnB

Joined: 09 Jul 2005
Posts: 685
Location: Beautiful sunny West Wales!

Posted: Tue Mar 19, 13 4:57 pm Post subject:
I use XAMPP ( https://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html ), as you don't need to install anything, just tweak it a bit.

vegplot

Joined: 19 Apr 2007
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Location: Bethesda, Gwynedd

Posted: Tue Mar 19, 13 5:08 pm Post subject:

JohnB wrote:

I use XAMPP ( https://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html ), as you don't need to install anything, just tweak it a bit.

No good for me, I need to run IIS.

Problem solved. MySQL is appalling at uninstalling and doesn't clear down registry settings properly. A re-install is never clean and causes all sorts of issues. Solved it my completely rebuilding the OS (I use VM's so that's relatively painless).

Jb

Joined: 08 Jun 2005
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Location: 91ï¿½ N

Posted: Wed Mar 20, 13 9:34 am Post subject:
Interesting. It's always my database of choice partly because I've found installing and uninstalling painless compared to other databases

vegplot

Joined: 19 Apr 2007
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Posted: Wed Mar 20, 13 9:45 am Post subject:

JB wrote:

Interesting. It's always my database of choice partly because I've found installing and uninstalling painless compared to other databases

I've had mixed results with MySQL, out of the box performance and features are adequate although not great compared to something like MS SQL Server and the install procedure is relatively simple. However, when it goes wrong it's difficult to resolve the issues cleanly.

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