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Of course not necessary, but be careful not to conflict with the ports. If I were you I would uninstall it. Since XAMPP provides a collection package, then use the one in XAMPP (provided you have no requirements on the version).
No need, if you installed it locally, use the local one, just turn off mysql in XAMPP
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Of course not necessary, but be careful not to conflict with the ports.
If I were you I would uninstall it. Since XAMPP provides a collection package, then use the one in XAMPP (provided you have no requirements on the version).
No need, if you installed it locally, use the local one, just turn off mysql in XAMPP