In the previous post, I made references to MySQL but didn’t say anything about a quick local setup. So here’s what I did for mine:

– Download MySQL binaries from http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/. I chose the huge 64-bit Zip archive.
– I unzipped the /bin/, /data/, /docs/ and /share/english/ folders into my destination MySQL folder. Then I deleted all the *.pdb files.
– Start the server via start mysqld. You can later stop it with mysqladmin.exe shutdown -u root.
– By default it has a root user without password, and an anonymous user.
– Run the client with mysql -u root.
– Delete the anonymous user or it will mess up with your ability to connect using other users you create: DELETE FROM mysql.user WHERE user=”; FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
– Create your database and your development user: CREATE DATABASE MyDatabase; GRANT SELECT, CREATE, DELETE, UPDATE, INSERT ON MyDatabase.* to MyUser@’%’ IDENTIFIED BY "MyPassword";
– Now you can connect as your development user with mysql -u MyUser -pMyPassword.
– I recommend downloading MySQL Workbench from http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/workbench/ to perform database maintenance.