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MySQL on Windows

For many years, Microsoft Windows has been the most popular MySQL development platform. MySQL on Windows is a popular choice for independent software vendors, original equipment manufacturers, cloud services providers and organizations developing custom web, departmental and enterprise applications.

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Why MySQL on Microsoft Windows?

The popularity of MySQL on Windows remains strong due to the fact that MySQL delivers:

Lower TCO
Ease of use
Reliability
Performance
Fully featured database with no functional limitations

In addition, MySQL provides the following additional benefits for Windows users:

MySQL Workbench for DBAs, developer's or data architects to visually design, generate, and manage all types of databases including Web, OLTP, and data warehouse databases. It includes everything a data modeler needs for creating complex ER models, and also delivers key features for performing difficult change management and documentation tasks that normally require much time and effort.

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MySQL Enterprise Edition for developers and DBAs that need 24x7 production support, as well as database development and management tools for their business critical applications. MySQL Enterprise Edition include MySQL Enterprise Backup, MySQL Enterprise Monitor, MySQL Query Analyzer and MySQL Workbench.

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MySQL Connector/.NET enables developers to easily create .NET applications that require secure, high-performance data connectivity with MySQL. It implements the required ADO.NET interfaces and integrates into ADO.NET aware tools. As far as development environments and languages, a 2008 Forrester survey showed that 57% of SMBs indicated that Microsoft.NET is the preferred development platform.

Download MySQL Connector/.NET (http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/net/6.0.html)

MySQL Connector/ODBC enables developers to connect to a MySQL database using the industry standard Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) API. MySQL Connector ODBC provides both driver-manager based and native interfaces to the MySQL database, with full support for MySQL functionality, including stored procedures, transactions and full unicode compliance.

Download MySQL Connector/ODBC 5.1 (http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/odbc/5.1.html)

Moreover, MySQL is available on all major platforms and allows Windows shops to choose, for example, the LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL PHP/Perl/Python) for online applications. LAMP is a proven technology stack used by the most popular Web sites in the world including Facebook, Google, Twitter, YouTube, Craiglist and Zappos.

With MySQL, you avoid "lock in" into any particular technology and retain full flexibility to choose any platform and development language for specific applications.

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