Step by Step Tutorials
on Database Development
with MySQL

Free to view, step by step, short tutorial on database development with MySQL. The tutorials have many flash illustrations, screen shots to get you started on MySQL the fastest and the easiest way.

About MySQL:

MySQL is a very popular open source database. It is considered number one database for web applications. MySQL is considered to be the best fit for PHP and Rails applications. LAMP an open source web platform, also uses MySQL. M in LAMP is for MySQL.

Starting from small applications to large applications like Yahoo are on MySQL.

MySQL offers a free community edition. The community edition is free for personal use. For commercial use please consult the licensing of MySQL. We will use this free edition in this tutorial.

Easy development:

MySQL comes with a set of graphical tools for administration and development. We will be using these tools in this tutorial.

About this Tutorial:

This tutorial lets a developer to start with MySQL. It assumes familiarity with database concepts.

The tutorial is basically for those developers who wants to have their feet wet in MySQL before starting on web database application development with platforms like PHP or Ruby on Rails.

Next:

Getting MySQL.