April 2002
Intermediate to advanced
442 pages
16h 37m
English
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Preparation
Before you begin installing MySQL, you must answer the following questions:
Which version will you install?
This is typically a decision between the latest stable release and the latest development release. In general, we recommended that you go with the latest stable release, unless you need specific features in a development release that are not available in the stable release.
The current stable versions are MySQL 3.23 and MySQL-Max 3.23. MySQL-Max is a beta release of the MySQL software with support for transactions (via BerkeleyDB and InnoDB tables). The standard MySQL binary does not include support for these types of tables.
The current development versions are MySQL 4.0 and MySQL-Max 4.0. The installation instructions provided here will work with either Version 3.23 or 4.0.
Are you going to install MySQL as root or as another user?
MySQL does not require root access to run, but installing it as root will enable you to make one copy available to everyone on your system. If you do not have root access, you must install it in your home directory. However, even if you install MySQL as root, it is a good idea to run it as a different user. In this way, all data in the database can be protected from all other users by setting the permissions on the datafiles to be readable by only the special MySQL user. In addition, if the security of the database becomes compromised, the attacker has access only to the special MySQL user account, which has no privileges beyond the ...
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