If you go to Applications, expand that, there's this MySQL Workbench. But there is one other item that's very useful to have here. This is the database itself that's going to house all my data and tables and so on, so technically this is the bare minimum that I need. I'm using a 64 bit machine, so I'm going to use the X64 installer. Now, in the very least, you want to come up to here where it says MySQL Servers, keep drilling down until you find one of these two options here. Come down here and click on the Custom radio button and I'll click Next. So, instead, I'm going to use a custom install. Now, we could use this Developer Default setup type here but it installs a lot of additional files that I don't necessarily need. When you're ready, click on "I accept the license terms" and click Next. Go ahead and read through it if you like. Now, right off the start, there's a licensing agreement. Now, I already downloaded the installer, so I'm going to go ahead and just run that now. You can click on this "No thanks, "just start my download" link. Next, I'll click on Download and they'll want you to sign up for an account but you don't necessarily have to. I'm going to choose the larger file size, but the instructions are going to be mostly the same. If we scroll down a little bit further, now we see have two options, one much smaller in file size than the other. So, I'll head over to the right, click on Download. Now the installer is listed as 32 bit but it does contain the 64 bit file so we'll use this. I'm going to go ahead and use this MSI Installer, though, just makes it a lot easier. There are some zip files down below that contain the binaries and whatnot. I am using a Windows machine here, so that's the platform I'll have selected. We'll scroll down here a little bit and take a look at our options. And I'll click on this MySQL Community Server. This requires a purchasing license from them, but we can also just use the Community edition, which is free, so I'll head over here.
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And below that, there's a couple different versions. Once you arrive here, there should be a Downloads tab at the top. You want to head over to MySQL's website. You can see I have a browser open, and I have Chrome open specifically, but it shouldn't matter too much which browser you use. Let's walk through installing MySQL onto our computer here. Before Ignition can connect to a database, first we have to install one.