steelyman
Moderator Emeritus
I probably shouldn't have tried this on Friday the 13th, but I was feeling brave, so...
I wanted a free database to install and use on my old Windows Vista SP2 desktop. From my experience while working, the DB experts there chose MySQL (it handled a whole lot of data generated there, so it seemed a reasonable choice to me).
I first tried downloading/installing the default but it kept failing, specifically on the MySQL Workbench, which is a graphical interface to the thing. I really wanted that, as I am no database wizard.
Trial and error led me to an installation that seems to work: install latest MySQL community base, but omit the most recent Workbench and instead use an earlier release (6.1 CE).
That was enough for a bit of an afternoon, now I just have to create a database and populate it with data. My goal is to store the media I own on a purely local basis, hopefully this will provide a good free infrastructure.
I wanted a free database to install and use on my old Windows Vista SP2 desktop. From my experience while working, the DB experts there chose MySQL (it handled a whole lot of data generated there, so it seemed a reasonable choice to me).
I first tried downloading/installing the default but it kept failing, specifically on the MySQL Workbench, which is a graphical interface to the thing. I really wanted that, as I am no database wizard.
Trial and error led me to an installation that seems to work: install latest MySQL community base, but omit the most recent Workbench and instead use an earlier release (6.1 CE).
That was enough for a bit of an afternoon, now I just have to create a database and populate it with data. My goal is to store the media I own on a purely local basis, hopefully this will provide a good free infrastructure.