Installing MySQL

Before skipping to the next chapter, let’s devote some time to the installation of MySQL.

In Chapter 8, Working with Databases, you will begin working with databases from PDI. In order to do that, you will need access to a database engine. As MySQL is the world’s most popular open source database, it was the database engine chosen for the database-related tutorials in this book.

In this section, you will learn how to install the MySQL database engine both on Windows and on Ubuntu, the most popular distribution of Linux these days. As the procedures for installing the software are different, a separate explanation is given for each system.