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A quick, step-by-step guide to setting up, configuring, and managing a MySQL database server on Windows, Linux, and macOS. Long a staple of open source computing, MySQL serves as the database back end ...

One of the tasks nearly any sysadmin frequently encounters is the care and feeding of the MySQL database server. You can build an entire career around nothing but this topic—making you a DB admin, not ...