mysql funziona correttamente, da riga di comando ho inserito il comando status e questi sono i risultati:

mysql> status
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C:\Programmi\MySQL\MySQL Server 5.0\bin\mysql.exe Ver 14.12 Distrib 5.0.45, for Win32 (ia32)

Connection id: 1
Current database:
Current user: root@localhost
SSL: Not in use
Using delimeter: ;
Server version: 5.0.45-community-nt MySQL Community Edition (GPL)
Protocol version: 10
Connection: Named pipe: mysql
Server characterset: latin1
Db characterset: latin1
Client characterset: latin1
Conn. characterset: latin1
UNIX socket: mysql
Uptime 1 min 21 sec

Threads: 1 Questions: 5 Slow queries: 0 Opens: 12 Flush tables: 1 Open tables: 6 Queries per second avg: 0.062
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