Choosing An Installation Package - Oracle 5.0 Reference Manual

• If you need tables with a size larger than 4GB, install MySQL on an NTFS or newer file system. Do
not forget to use
"CREATE TABLE
MySQL for Windows is available in several distribution formats:
• Binary distributions are available that contain a setup program that installs everything you need so
that you can start the server immediately. Another binary distribution format contains an archive
that you simply unpack in the installation location and then configure yourself. For details, see
Section 2.10.1, "Choosing An Installation
• The source distribution contains all the code and support files for building the executables using the
Visual Studio compiler system.
Generally speaking, you should use a binary distribution that includes an installer. It is simpler to use
than the others, and you need no additional tools to get MySQL up and running. The installer for the
Windows version of MySQL, combined with a GUI Configuration Wizard, automatically installs MySQL,
creates an option file, starts the server, and secures the default user accounts.
The following section describes how to install MySQL on Windows using a binary distribution. To
use an installation package that does not include an installer, follow the procedure described in
Section 2.10.4, "Installing MySQL on Microsoft Windows Using a
using a source distribution, see
MySQL distributions for Windows can be downloaded from http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/. See
Section 2.5, "How to Get

2.10.1. Choosing An Installation Package

For MySQL 5.0, there are three installation package formats to choose from when installing MySQL on
Windows:
• The Essentials package.
win32.msi
the Configuration Wizard. This package does not include optional components such as the
embedded server and benchmark suite.

Choosing An Installation Package

and
MAX_ROWS AVG_ROW_LENGTH
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Caution
Using virus scanning software such as Norton/Symantec Anti-Virus on
directories containing MySQL data and temporary tables can cause issues, both
in terms of the performance of MySQL and the virus-scanning software mis-
identifying the contents of the files as containing spam. This is because of the
fingerprinting mechanism used by the virus scanning software, and the way
in which MySQL rapidly updates different files, which may be identified as a
potential security risk.
After installing MySQL Server, it is recommended that you disable virus
scanning on the main directory
MySQL table data. There is usually a system built into the virus scanning
software to permit certain directories to be specifically ignored during virus
scanning.
In addition, by default, MySQL creates temporary files in the standard Windows
temporary directory. To prevent the temporary files also being scanned, you
should configure a separate temporary directory for MySQL temporary files
and add this to the virus scanning exclusion list. To do this, add a configuration
option for the
tmpdir
more information, see
Section 2.10.8, "Installing MySQL from Source on
MySQL".
This package has a file name similar to
and contains the minimum set of files needed to install MySQL on Windows, including
when you create tables. See
Package".
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Section 2.10.4.2, "Creating an Option
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