If you want your site to be found quickly and be indexed thoroughly by Google, the best thing to do is carefully, page by page, make sure that everything is SEO as you can possibly get it, you know... Title tags, H1 - H3 or 4 tags, body content in

tags and so on - Make sure the content, dynamic or static, is intelligently written to focus on key words and search terms for your business or product category - Just be sure all the tweaking is done.

Then create a Google Sitemap for the site and register the site with Google Sitemaps, next set up a Google Analytics account for the site and place the code on your site and get that all validated. Even if you use your host's site stats and maybe don't think you'll actually use Analytics, set it up anyway.

All this gets your site on Google's radar and indexed promptly, and re-indexed more often.

Here's a real simple test to setting up your local development / test MySQL database.

Try creating a new user for your local MySQL database in whatever MySQL admin you are using (I really like Navicat) - I like to create the user with the exact same user name and password that the database on the live server will eventually be using - this way you don't have to modify any code when you upload your site.  Now give this user access to only the one database you'll be connecting to for the particular site you'll be working on and then give this use full permissions to this database, and save the user. Then create your site data source with the same data source name you'll be using on the server, thus creating, as far as you code is concerned, a mirror setup.

This should get you connected and it will also streamline the process when you start uploading and testing on the server.