shanda — Wed, 14 May 2003 01:39:05 +0000

I can't help with the setup, but a tutorial by Kevin Yank (actually the first four chapters out of his book) has pulled a whole bunch of folks out of the dark on MySQL in my office. It can be found at :

Mark Hensler — Fri, 02 May 2003 11:06:23 +0000

By SQL, I'm assuming you mean Microsoft SQL Server? Rather than transact-SQL. There is a learning curve. I'd imagine that it's not quite so hard with your basic queries, but may take some time to learn the user management.

I use a windows GUI for my linux box (on a lan). It's called MySQL Front. The software is no longer being developed, but you can still find it on google. (download | official site) This app has the best GUI I've found for mysql, but it's nothing like Enterprise Manager.

SqlGuru — Thu, 01 May 2003 20:14:06 +0000

You will probably go through hell with Mysql. Here's why

a) You or someone on your team need to be adept at mysql setup, configuration, maintenance, security

b) Mysql does not come with a GUI front end to manage databases, tables, users, etc, although there is myPhpadmin which does the job, but requires a linux(?) server running php

c) If you are doing development on windows, there is mysql for windows.

Best bet: find a hosting provider that already has this for you and pay the extra $$$ for the database access.

Busy — Fri, 25 Apr 2003 02:30:20 +0000

you should be ok with MySQL, pretty easy if you know programming basics
MySQL comes with phpmyadmin which is like an editor to set up all your tables etc, then just add the code to pull out the info.

sorry no complete tutorials to give you, do a search on here for mysql, phpmyadmin or even php and you should come up with some links