Nevertheless, if you want to conserve memory and clock-cycles, you can turn off the Windows MySQL service and start MySQL from the command line when needed. A full MySQL install on Windows includes ...

MySQL Workbench has separate windows that allow you to set up user IDs, assign privileges and even view event logs that track database activity.

To query a MySQL database, I'm going to assume you already have a Windows MySQL server and a database with at least one table in it you'd like to retrieve. I'm also going to assume that you don't ...