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Chapter 1: You: Programmer and Search Engine Marketer

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Preparing the Database

The final step is to create a new MySQL database. You’re creating a database named

seophp

that you

will use for the exercises contained in this book. You’ll also create a user named

seouser

, with the

password

seomaster

, which will have full privileges to the

seophp

database.

You will be using this database only for the exercises in Chapter 11 and Chapter 14, so you can skip this

database installation for now if desired.

To prepare your database environment, follow these steps. Note that this exercise uses the MySQL

console application to send commands to the database server.

Follow these steps:

1.

Load a Windows Command Prompt window by going to Start

?

Run and executing

cmd.exe

.

In Windows Vista, you can type cmd or Command Prompt in the search box of the Start menu.

2.

Change your current directory to the

bin

folder of your MySQL installation. With the default

XAMPP installation, that folder is

\Program Files\xampp\mysql\bin

. Change the directory

using the following command:

cd \Program Files\xampp\mysql\bin

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