Having said that, let's get started with the tutorial! 1. In this example, we will use xampp-windows-圆4-7.4.8-0-VC15, so the PHPMyAdmin panel shows that we have MariaDB 10.4.13: SQL backup of every database that you had on the database engine. I would recommend to do this only with a clean installation of XAMPP, otherwise you may run the risk of data corruption, however it's feasible to do recover from the data that you had using MariaDB.

In this tutorial, we will explain you how to use it Before starting In some cases, you will want however to work locally at least with MySQL itself. Everyone in the open source will suggest you to work with MariaDB, as it's the real open source RDBMS database. MariaDB is Open Source whereas MySQL uses some proprietary code in its Enterprise Edition. For example, i worked with MySQL a long time until i finally understood that the database manager in some servers wasn't exactly what i always though it was. Progressively, you will end up understanding how some components of the tool work. This is someway counterproductive if you don't have any idea of what's happening on the background (that happened to me for at least a year). Xampp is without a doubt one of those tools that help you out configuring an environment where you can work with Apache, MySQL and PHP in matter of minutes without so much hassle. Unfortunately, there's a lot of people like me that loves to work with tools that are ready to use locally.

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