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2.3.8. Selecting a MySQL Server type

The following table shows the available servers for Windows in MySQL 5.1:

Binary Description
mysqld-debug Compiled with full debugging and automatic memory allocation checking, as well as InnoDB and BDB tables.
mysqld Optimized binary with InnoDB support.
mysqld-nt Optimized binary for Windows NT, 2000, and XP with support for named pipes.

All of the preceding binaries are optimized for modern Intel processors, but should work on any Intel i386-class or higher processor.

All Windows MySQL 5.1 servers have support for symbolic linking of database directories.

MySQL supports TCP/IP on all Windows platforms. The mysqld-nt server supports named pipes on Windows NT, 2000, XP, and 2003. However, the default is to use TCP/IP regardless of platform. (Named pipes are slower than TCP/IP in many Windows configurations.)

Use of named pipes is subject to these conditions:

  • Named pipes are enabled only if you start the server with the --enable-named-pipe option. It is necessary to use this option explicitly because some users have experienced problems with shutting down the MySQL server when named pipes were used.

  • Named-pipe connections are allowed only by the mysqld-nt server, and only if the server is run on a version of Windows that supports named pipes (NT, 2000, XP, 2003).

  • These servers can be run on Windows 98 or Me, but only if TCP/IP is installed; named-pipe connections cannot be used.

  • These servers can not be run on Windows 95.

Note: Most of the examples in this manual use mysqld as the server name. If you choose to use a different server, such as mysqld-nt, make the appropriate substitutions in the commands that are shown in the examples.


 
 
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