MySQL 8 Administrator???s Guide

Windows-specific considerations

Before installing MySQL 8 on Microsoft Windows consider following points:

• Antivirus software: As we know, antivirus software uses the fingerprinting technique, which will consider rapidly changed files as a potential security risk. In MySQL 8, there are some directories that contain MySQL 8 related data and temporary tables information and are updated frequently. So, there is a possibility that antivirus software will consider those files as spam. This will also impact performance.

Antivirus software provides configurations to exclude some of the directories, so it is recommended to exclude the MySQL 8 data directory and temp directory. MySQL 8, by default, stores temporary data into a Microsoft Windows temporary ...