Installing and Managing MySQL database
Web Server
Try to install and run your web server, it can be your IIS, Apache or any other web server.Learn more on webserver and its installation here. Do a test by placing some html files at server root and after installing PHP to run on your web server try to open one PHP file. This will ensure that your required script is available for running our tools and to manage MySQL database.
It is not necessary that you must have web server to work on MySQL database. You can use MySQL workbench as front end tool to handle MySQL database. However the combination of running PHP with MySQL database is most popular so this configuration works with any webserver like Apache , IIS and others.
Download and install MySQL
To learn basics of database management we must first install a database. Go for MySQL community server at Download MySQL database and complete the installation process. Based on your operating system select MySQL version and type you are adding.Using PhpMyAdmin
Download PhpMyAdmin and place all the files in your server root directory. If you are using localhost then in your browser address bar you can open your phpmyadmin script like this.https://127.0.0.1/phpmyadmin/PhpMyAdmin is the best user interface to manage MySQL database. Crate a database of your favorite name and now you are ready to start. If all these steps are over then move to SQL section.
Using XAMPP or WAMP servers
Once we download XAMPP ( for all platforms ) or WAMP ( for windows ) ,we will get Database as a part of the installation and our web server, Script and Database gets integrated without any manual intervention.
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