Hi,
Running Windows 8.1
XAMPP Control Panel 3.2.1
Have a few questions
I have MySQL 5.6 installed on my Windows 8.1 machine.
I want to use XAMPP to start developing PHP applications.
After installing and starting XAMPP, I get an error when trying to start MySQL.
I then stop the MySQL service that was already running and then start the MySQL in XAMPP. All is OK, except MySQL in XAMPP is referring to different databases than what I had previously created.
Should I backup and restore to the new MySQL installation and then completely uninstall the previous MySQL applications or can I use the previous MySQL applications in conjunction with the MySQL that was installed with XAMPP?
Jim P