Introduction to MySQL

MySQL is a real multi-user, multi-threaded SQL database server. SQL (Structured Query language) is the most popular and standardized database language in the world. MySQL is implemented as a client/server architecture, consisting of a server daemon mysqld and many different client programs and libraries.

SQL is a standardized language that makes it easier to store, update, and access information. For example, you can use SQL language to retrieve product information and store customer information for a Web site, and MySQL is fast and flexible enough to allow you to store record files and images.

MySQL's main goal is to be fast, robust, and easy to use. Originally because we need such a SQL Server, it can handle with any inexpensive hardware platform to provide the database of the manufacturers in a large scale database, but faster, MySQL developed. We have been using MySQL since 1996, with more than 40 databases, 10,000 tables, more than 500 tables over 7 million rows, and about 100 gigabytes (GB) of critical application data.

MySQL is built on a set of practical routines that have been used for years in a highly demanding production environment. Although MySQL is still in development, it has provided a rich and extremely useful feature set.

The official pronunciation of MySQL is "my Ess Que Ell" (not My-sequel).