Introduction to MySQL

 

What is MySQL?

• MySQL is a relational database management system
• MySQL is open-source
• MySQL is free
• MySQL is ideal for both small and large applications
• MySQL is very fast, reliable, scalable, and easy to use
• MySQL is cross-platform
• MySQL is compliant with the ANSI SQL standard
• MySQL was first released in 1995
• MySQL is developed, distributed, and supported by Oracle Corporation
• MySQL is named after co-founder Monty Widenius's daughter: My

Who Uses MySQL?

Huge websites like Facebook, Twitter, Airbnb, Booking.com, Uber, GitHub, YouTube, etc.
Content Management Systems like WordPress, Drupal, Joomla!, Contao, etc.
A very large number of web developers around the world

Show Data On Your Web Site

To build a web site that shows data from a database, you will need:

• An RDBMS database program (like MySQL)
• A server-side scripting language, like PHP
• To use SQL to get the data you want
• To use HTML / CSS to style the page