Soon I will be making MySQL and PHPMyAdmin video tutorials so that in the PHP section, we can dive into the wonderful world of databases.
According to Wikipedia (10/18/09)
MySQL is a relational database management system (RDBMS)[1] that has more than 6 million installations.[2] MySQL stands for “My Structured Query Language“. The program runs as a server providing multi-user access to a number of databases. MySQL is officially pronounced /maɪˌɛskjuːˈɛl/ (My S-Q-L), but often pronounced /maɪˌsiː’kwɛl/ (My SEQuel).[3]
The project has made its source code available under the terms of the GNU General Public License, as well as under a variety of proprietary agreements. MySQL is owned and sponsored by a single for-profit firm, the Swedish company MySQL AB, now a subsidiary of Sun Microsystems[4]. As of 2009[update] Oracle Corporation began the process of acquiring Sun Microsystems.
MySQL is often used in free software projects that require a full-featured database management system, such as WordPress, phpBB and other software built on the LAMP software stack. It is also used in very high-scale World Wide Web products including Wikipedia, Google and Facebook
Also for PHPMyAdmin on WikiPedia(1/18/09)
phpMyAdmin is an open source tool written in PHP intended to handle the administration of MySQL over the World Wide Web. It can perform various tasks such as creating, modifying or deleting databases, tables, fields or rows; executing SQL statements; or managing users and permissions.
The tutorials will be relatively short and will build on each previous tutorial.