This section does not apply to MySQL Enterprise Server users.
The following table shows the available servers for Windows in
MySQL 5.0.
Binary
Description
mysqld-nt
Optimized binary with named-pipe support
mysqld
Optimized binary without named-pipe support
mysqld-debug
Like mysqld-nt, but compiled with full debugging and
automatic memory allocation checking
All of the preceding binaries are optimized for modern Intel
processors, but should work on any Intel i386-class or higher
processor.
Each of the servers in a distribution support the same set of
storage engines. The SHOW ENGINES statement
displays which engines a given server supports.
All Windows MySQL 5.0 servers have support for
symbolic linking of database directories.
MySQL supports TCP/IP on all Windows platforms. MySQL servers on
Windows support named pipes as indicated in the following list.
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 and
mysqld-debug servers.
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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