Installing MySQL

It's an easy enough install one point to note, don't run the install without adding a root user.

If you do you'll probabley need to un-install and re-install

This blog post maybe of help. Specifically, this command line:

To permanently remove the old mysql service, execute the following command as a user with administrative privileges, on the command-line:

C:\>sc delete mysql
[SC] DeleteService SUCCESS

And this thread may help with adapting root level user if lost or forgotten.

There are couple of additional tools that can be installed, I've opted for Gui-Tools and Workbench Retweet this button on every post blogger