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Starting Multiple MySQL Instances as Windows Services

On Windows, a MySQL sen/er can run as a Windows service. The procedures for installing, controlling,

and removing a single MySQL service are described in Section 2.3.5.7,

“Starting MySQL as a Wndows

Service”.

To set up multiple MySQL services, you must make surę that each instance uses a different service

name in addition to the other parameters that must be unique per instance.

For the following instructions, suppose that you want to run the niysąld server from two different

versions of MySQL that are installed at C:\mysql-5.5.9 and C:\mysql-5.6.14, respectively. (This

might be the case if you are running 5.5.9 as your production server, but also want to conduct tests using 5.6.14.)

To install MySQL as a Windows service, use the —install or — install-manual option. For

information about these options, see Section 2.3.5.7, “Starting MySQL as a Windows Service”.