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I am asking this question as an offshoot myself and another SO had from this other MariaDB question:
MariaDB on Windows – getting started help?
When I install MariaDB (v5.2.4), open the command window, navigate to the folder where the files are installed, and type in the following to start the database:
net start mysql
I get the following error:
the service name is invalid
I didn’t do anything complex, just ran the installation and tried to get started.
Any ideas?
The error basically tells that installer did not create the service (it currently does not create services), thus you’ll need to do it yourself.
and only then
Assuming that there is nothing that runs on port 3306, this will stat.
Alas, the server you will create this way would not be optimized at all.
It is better to create a configuration file my.ini (take a look at MySQL docs and .ini files in the installation directory for examples), and put with performance -related stuff here (innodb bufferpool size etc). With config file, you’ll need a different command line to register service (step 3 above):
Installer for 5.2.4 is basic indeed. It is being reworked though, new one is going to be better usable.