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MySQL install failure – Security settings cannot be applied
One of the reason I love MySQL is the fact that it is so easy to install. Take the MSI, run it, invoke MySQL Server Instance Configuration Wizard and done. I adore this simplicity and this enables me to focus on core problems rather than setting up the database server. However none of the system is bullet proof and so at times MySQL installation does fail. Today I am going to discuss one such failure.
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PHP 5.3 and MySQL connectivity problem
I have seen so many post in our IIS forum mentioning that after moving to PHP5.3 they are not able to connect to MySQL database. So this means a simple program like the one below doesn’t work: