You are in: > Home > Developers Guides
MySQL - Introduction
MySQL is an open source relational database management system (RDBMS) that uses Structured Query Language (SQL), the most popular language for adding, accessing, and processing data in a database.
Because it is open source, anyone can download MySQL and tailor it to their needs in accordance with the general public license. MySQL is noted mainly for its speed, reliability, and flexibility.
MySQL is a multithreaded, multi-user, SQL Database Management System. MySQL AB (a Swedish for-profit company) makes MySQL available as free software under the GNU General Public License (GPL), but they also sell it under traditional commercial licensing arrangements for cases where the intended use is incompatible with use of the GPL.
Related articles
- Perl - Downloading a URL with a script - [22nd Mar 2006]
- Perl - Pattern Matching (Regular Expressions) - [12th Jan 2006]
- Shell Scripting - Reading Variables From STDIN - [11th Jan 2006]
- Perl - Configuring and Starting the mod_perl Server - [06th Jan 2006]
- Perl - Installing mod_perl in Three Steps - [06th Jan 2006]
- Perl - mod_perl - [06th Jan 2006]
- Perl - Associative Arrays - [06th Jan 2006]
- Perl - Manipulating Arrays - [06th Jan 2006]
- Perl - Arrays - [06th Jan 2006]
- Perl - Operators - [06th Jan 2006]
- Perl - Scalar Variables - [06th Jan 2006]
- Shell Scripting - Introduction - [08th Dec 2005]
- Shell Scripting - Invoking Shell Scripts - [08th Dec 2005]
- Shell Scripting - Variables - [08th Dec 2005]
- Shell Scripting - Referencing Variables - [08th Dec 2005]
- Shell Scripting - Command Arguments - [08th Dec 2005]
- Shell Scripting - Language Constructs - [08th Dec 2005]
- Perl - Introduction - [06th Dec 2005]
- MySQL - Connecting to the server - [06th Dec 2005]
- MySQL - Introduction - [06th Dec 2005]
