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Included in the installation package is a file named mysql-create.sql; log into the main database and execute these commands. Also included is a file named mysql-create-metadata.sql; log into the metadata database and execute these commands.
Note: For MySQL the database must be configured with the UTF8 character set. For MySQL 8 utf8mb4
and utf8mb4_unicode_ci
are supported as well. Currently, other character sets and collations are not supported.
Installation
We highly recommend installing MySQL on a dedicated database server. To communicate with MySQL on that server completing this installation will require the username, password, hostname and port (e.g. 3306).
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