After the database is installed, a good smoke test is to open the MySQL Workbench. With this, you can validate your credentials, verify the database is running, and run queries and issue SQL ...

AS t LEFT JOIN products AS p ON t.upc=p.upc In SQL Server these queries will run in roughly the same time. In MySQL it's about 4 seconds vs. about 1.5 minutes. I believe MySQL is creating a ...