Sorry Arkansas, when you mentioned MySQL, I assumed you did NOT use Akka's installer ?
since it installs
MariaDB instead of the straight MySQL. If that installer went wrong, I would recommend
uninstalling everything. MySql, perl, etc., then starting out fresh using Akka's install package.
I assume you got the install package from here? -
https://github.com/EQEmu/Server/wiki/Windows-Server