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It must be the blogs I read.

For some reason, I decided to give MySQL a try. You may laugh at me, but I have never installed MySQL on Windows before, not because I don't like MySQL, but because I never had the need for it, having figured out how to make the PostgreSQL from Cygwin to work.

So I went to their website, downloaded the thing, unzipped it and ran the setup.exe. Everything seems to be cool, except that after the installation, the MySQL command line tool won't run. When I select the menu item, a command window pops up, asking me for the password. I enter the password, the one I supplied a moment ago when I did the installation, and the machine beeps and the command window goes away.

I have verified that the MySQL service has started. I have also opened up port 3306 on my Windows firewall.

What did I do wrong.

Help!

And thanks.