Grafana is one of the most widely-used data visualization tools on the market. Learn how to connect Grafana to a remote MySQL database with this tutorial.

MySQL Workbench has separate windows that allow you to set up user IDs, assign privileges and even view event logs that track database activity.

Nevertheless, if you want to conserve memory and clock-cycles, you can turn off the Windows MySQL service and start MySQL from the command line when needed. A full MySQL install on Windows includes ...