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Question

Different between Windows authentication and MySQL server...??

Answer 1

MySQL is for Linux MS-SQL or commonly referred to as just SQL is for any windows based operating system. They behave and have nearly the same functionality with some syntax differences.
MySQL is part of the LAMP stack, Linux Apache MySQL PHP.
For PHP, you can use either the PDO or MySQLi libraries to communicate with a MySQL database.
http://php.net/manual/en/book.mysqli.php
http://php.net/manual/en/book.pdo.php