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Setting up MySQL Administrator

When you start MySQL Administrator for the first time then you will see a window similar to this:

We will now add and register our MySQL instance in the MySQL Connections window so that we don't have type the hostname and username every time we need to connect to our server. Click on the button with the three dots to display the options dialog:

Fill in all the required information so that you have a screen similar to the one shown below and click the Apply Changes and Close button:

Now you can connect to the server by filling in the password and clicking on the OK button:

and you should be presented with the server information screen:

MySQL Administrator is now setup and we can start creating the database, tables etc.