Comments on: Installing MySQL on Snow Leopard

By: Kemila Isdiandini

Kemila Isdiandini — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 01:29:02 +0000

Thank you very much. It’s so easy. You help my day :D

By: JThreads

JThreads — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 18:46:37 +0000

Thank you very much for your easy to follow tutorial :)

By: Jake Boxer

Jake Boxer — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 13:46:39 +0000

No problem Sarah, glad I could help :)

By: sarah

sarah — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 04:43:01 +0000

Thanks Jake. This was remarkably easy. Last time I installed MySQL on Snow Leopard it was an epic journey of the unpleasant sort. This just worked. Thanks for putting your steps down.

By: Jake Boxer

Jake Boxer — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 05:05:04 +0000

bluemantis: Honestly, I’m not sure what you’ll be able to do with a database without a bit of programming knowledge as well. With a basic amount of each, you could do some cool stuff, but with just MySQL, I’m not sure if you’d be able to do anything.

By: bluemantis

bluemantis — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 03:11:39 +0000

I bought a book on it (a bit cryptic, if you asked me)–The Definitive Guide to MySQL 5 by Michael Kofler, from apress. Is it any good? Lastly, Would it make any sense for a non-developer (such a I) to delve into this? Or is that overextending oneself?

By: Jake Boxer

Jake Boxer — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 15:33:27 +0000

bluemantis: Yep, but it’ll cost you.

I’ve experimented a bit with a program called Querious: http://www.araelium.com/querious/

I really really like it. As a developer, I’m perfectly comfortable on the command line and with phpMyAdmin, but for a designer, Querious might be much preferable.

Either way though, I would definitely recommend picking up a book on MySQL. Using it is going to be a constant struggle if you don’t have a basic understanding of the code involved, so while it may be an annoying initial investment, you will save yourself huge headaches (and a lot of time) in the long run.

By: bluemantis

bluemantis — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 11:45:12 +0000

So I have the latest mySQL (64-bit) installed on Snow Leopard. Now how do i begin creating a database? I downloaded myPHP but can’t seem to find where to start. I am a designer by trade and want to move into getting my sites more dynamic. Can I do all this with a GUI rather than going through terminal and typing code?

By: Jake Boxer

Jake Boxer — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:00:08 +0000

Jon: Thanks for the info! I’ll add it to the set of instructions.

By: Jon Carroll

Jon Carroll — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:56:26 +0000

If you are still having trouble running the installer (hanging at preparing) be sure to reboot after taking all the steps under “The PATH Variable”. It still wouldn’t install for me but after a reboot it worked. Thanks for the info.