title: Creating a local SQL database file?
body: <p><strong>Please note:</strong></p>
  
  <p><em>I am a game programmer, so backend development isn't my forte. There are times, however, where I work with our database at my job. Please don't shoot me if my question is ridiculous.</em>
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  <p>Is there a way to create a local mySQL file and access it through PHP or C#?</p>
  
  <p>I know you can make a local webpage on your machine (pretty much for testing purposes) and access multiple locally created files. </p>
  
  <p>I assume that something similar would work with mySQL. (Are the login credentials also stored within the file?) I remember seeing a few online tutorials where it offered a download for both PHP and the database file, but I can't seem to find them now.</p>
  
  <p>I've searched for this, but all the relevant results involved downloading mySQL and hosting a server which is a bit more than I wanted to do.</p>
  
  <p>So if its possible to create a local mySQL, how do you do so?
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  The tools I intend on using while doing this:<br>
  PHP/JQUERY/HTML and C#</p>