Beginning SQL

Click Finish, and congratulate yourself — the database install is now complete!
Click Start ➪ Programs, and browse to the new folder containing the MySQL programs. As evident in
Figure B-19, there’s a command line interface, the default way of managing and accessing MySQL, and
there is also the configuration wizard, the wizard you just ran. You may also see an option for the
MySQL Manual.
Figure B-19
Although using only the command line interface to access MySQL is fine, you may prefer nice, easy-touse
consoles and user interfaces. The next section shows you how to install very useful tools for managing
the MySQL system.
Installing the MySQL Tools
Setting Up and Using the Five Database Systems
As mentioned previously, the MySQL Administration console and the MySQL Query Browser are available
to download and provide excellent user interfaces for managing MySQL. Both the Administration
console and the Query Browser can be downloaded from http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/.
The Administration console is very handy but not essential for this book, and discussing its use could
easily fill another book. However, once you’ve completed this book, you might want to go back and
install the console because it does make life a lot easier than does the default command line interface.
To start installing the Query Browser interface, which is extremely useful for this book, click Start ➪
Run and browse to where you downloaded the Query Browser installation file.
If you download the Windows installer version, then you need to make sure to select All Files from the
Files of Type drop-down box, or else you won’t see the installation file listed. Click Open, and then Click
OK to start the installation. You should see the initial installation screen depicted in Figure B-20:
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