Saturday, October 27, 2007
Playing with MYSQL Database
Recently i have get my hands dirty with MYSQL Database.
Basically what is a MySQL you may ask. Well, it is a multithreaded, multi-user SQL database management system.
MySQL is popular for web applications and acts as the database component of the LAMP, MAMP, and WAMP platforms (Linux/Mac/Windows-Apache-MySQL-PHP/Perl/Python), and for open-source bug tracking tools like Bugzilla. Its popularity for use with web application is closely tied to the popularity of PHP, which is often combined with MySQL. PHP and MySQL are essential components for running popular content management systems such as WordPress and Drupal blogging platforms. Wikipedia runs on MediaWiki software, which can also use PHP and a MySQL database.
It is considered a powerful database system compare to some other database such as microsoft access which is mainly used for standalone system. The best part of the story is that you can get Mysql server free of charge (although the "free" version is a community server, but nevertheless it functions just like the retail counterpart).
In the next post, i may introduce some of the basic functions of this database! Stay tuned!
- Part of the source extracted from Wikipedia.com
Posted by Zack at 12:13 PM