Stephanie, Without knowing the architecture of your program I cannot give a precise answer. But I'll make a few stabs at it...
First, MySQL, being an application in its own right, can be installed separately from your application. Alternately, your application's installation program could include calling the MySQL installer. The user could bypass that step if it has already been installed. Future upgrades of your program would not require MySQL to be reinstalled, though the tables and databases it uses may need refreshing. Second, MySQL is network-based, so that you may have MySQL installed on one or more machines and your application installed on other machines. It would require as part of the installation process that the IP address for the MySQL server, its port, username, password, etc. be supplied. Hope this helps, Frank Stephanie Piet wrote: > Does anyone know if there's a way in MySQL have the same functionality > without installing the whole program on a users machine? I'm using a Java > program along with Connector/J and a MySQL DB. We are trying to make it so > the user doesn't have to install MySQL everytime they want to install the > program on their machine. > > Thanks, > Stephanie > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Please check "http://www.mysql.com/Manual_chapter/manual_toc.html"; before > posting. To request this thread, e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To unsubscribe, send a message to the address shown in the > List-Unsubscribe header of this message. If you cannot see it, > e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
