MySQL on Windows - Why, Where and How
- by bertrand.matthelie(at)oracle.com
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Over the
years Windows has become a major development and deployment platform for MySQL.
As a matter of fact, Windows consistently ranks as the #1 development platform
in our surveys, and now also ranks higher than any Linux distribution as a
deployment platform among MySQL Community Edition users.
We've made
various technical resources available in our MySQL on Windows Resource Center
including articles, whitepapers and archived webinars. MySQL users are also
sharing their experiences and writing how-to articles, and it's great to see
former MySQL/Sun/Oracle employees still contributing! Thanks Anders for a
recent step-by-step part 1 article on working
with MySQL on Windows.
We also
got feedback from customers wishing to get higher-level information about MySQL
on Windows, to help them and others in their organizations better understand:
· Why is the
world's most popular open source database so popular on Windows?
· What are
the applications for which one should consider MySQL on Microsoft's platform?
· How should
Windows shops relying on Microsoft databases get going with MySQL?
Those are the questions we aim to
answer in our guide "MySQL on Windows - Why, Where and How", that you can
download here.
