Installing MySQL on Windows

 

Installing MySQL Community Server on Windows

• Download from here: http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/
• Choose either the Essential or Complete.
• Run setup.exe and you will see something like this:
• Next you will see the MySQL ‘Server Configuration Wizard’:    
• On Windows platforms, the MySQL server can be installed as a Windows service.
• Testing the MySQL installation. e.g. C:\> "C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server 5.0\bin\mysqlshow" -u root -p mysql. For more information about mysqlshow, see Section 4.5.6, “mysqlshow — Display Database, Table, and Column Information”. 
• (Optional) – Securing the Initial MySQL Accounts
• Installing Connector/NET 1.0+ on Windows (Download 1.0, 5.1, 5.2(comes with VS2008 Plugin))  OR  Installing Connector/NET 1.0+ using the Source 
• MySQL GUI Tools Downloads. MySQL Administrator 1.2, MySQL Query Browser 1.2, MySQL Migration Toolkit 1.1

Via http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/installing-cs.html