The Ultimate Guide to High Availability with MariaDB

Installing ZIP packages

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Getting started with ZIP packages on Windows is very straightforward - this distribution includes pre-build database files that can be used right after unpacking the ZIP.

You can run mysqld.exe from the command prompt like this:

  cd <directory-where-zip-was-unpacked>
  bin\mysqld --console

However, running MariaDB from the command line in user session like this covers only simplest testing scenarios.

For MariaDB 5.2.6 and later, for any serious purpose, use mysql_install_db.exe to create database instances - it is more secure (disables anonymous user by default, allows setting root password during database creation), and more convenient (can create Windows service, supports user-specified data directory)

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