

GRANT SELECT, INSERT, DELETE, UPDATE, ALTER ON phpmyadmin.* TO USER IDENTIFIED WITH mysql_native_password BY '' ĪLTER USER IDENTIFIED WITH mysql_native_password BY '' īin\mysqld -initialize-insecure -log_syslog=0 Open a command prompt and run the following commands:ĬREATE USER C:/xampp/phpMyAdmin/sql/create_tables.sql MySQL was replaced with MariaDB on 19 October 2015 and beginning with XAMPP versions 5.5.30 and 5.6.14, effectively altering the meaning of the acronym. Open C:\xampp\mysql\bin\my.ini in an editor and comment out the line starting with key_buffer= in the section.Copy C:\xampp\mariadb\bin\my.ini to C:\xampp\mysql\bin.Make sure you extract the folder level which has the subfolders bin, include, lib etc. Extract the downloaded zip archive to C:\xampp\mysql.Rename C:\xampp\mysql to C:\xampp\mariadb.Download the MySQL community server as zip archive (Windows 64 bit version).


Here are exact step by step instructions for truly integrating MySQL into XAMPP on Windows.
