MySQL 9.3 Reference Manual Including MySQL NDB Cluster 9.3
You must exercise great care when editing your system
PATH by hand; accidental deletion or
modification of any portion of the existing
PATH value can leave you with a
malfunctioning or even unusable system.
To make it easier to invoke MySQL programs, you can add the path
name of the MySQL bin directory to your
Windows system PATH environment variable:
On the Windows desktop, right-click the My Computer icon, and select .
Next select the tab from the menu that appears, and click the button.
Under System Variables, select , and then click the button. The dialogue should appear.
Place your cursor at the end of the text appearing in the
space marked Variable Value. (Use the
End key to ensure that your cursor is
positioned at the very end of the text in this space.) Then
enter the complete path name of your MySQL
bin directory (for example,
C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server
9.3\bin)
There must be a semicolon separating this path from any values present in this field.
Dismiss this dialogue, and each dialogue in turn, by
clicking until all of the
dialogues that were opened have been dismissed. The new
PATH value should now be available to any
new command shell you open, allowing you to invoke any MySQL
executable program by typing its name at the DOS prompt from
any directory on the system, without having to supply the
path. This includes the servers, the
mysql client, and all MySQL command-line
utilities such as mysqladmin and
mysqldump.
You should not add the MySQL bin directory
to your Windows PATH if you are running
multiple MySQL servers on the same machine.