Installing MariaDB Windows ZIP Packages

Instructions for manually installing MariaDB on Windows from a ZIP archive, useful for portable installations or advanced configuration needs.

Users need to run mariadb-install-db.exe, without parameters to create a data directory, e.g

C:\zip_unpack\directory> bin\mariadb-install-db.exe

Then you can start server like this

C:\zip_unpack\directory> bin\mariadbd.exe --console

If you like to customize the server instance (data directory, install as service etc), please refer to mariadb-install-db.exe documentation

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