Here we will show you step by step how to install MySQL on the Windows platform using the MySQL Installer. Download MySQL Community Edition, the world's most popular open source database, under the GPL license. It includes SQL and NoSQL, replication, partitioning, stored procedures, triggers, views, performance schema, information schema, connectors, workbench and more. Note: MySQL 8.0 is the final series with MySQL Installer. As of MySQL 8.1, use a MySQL product's MSI or Zip archive for installation. MySQL Server 8.1 and higher also bundle MySQL Configurator, a tool that helps configure MySQL Server. To be able to install and run MySQL Workbench on Windows your system needs to have libraries listed below installed. The listed items are provided as links to the corresponding download pages where you can fetch the necessary files. Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5 Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2019 Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2019 (for Japanese) Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2019 (for Traditional Chinese) Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual ...