Summary
MySQL is a SQL Server client implementation that is freely available for download for a wide variety of platforms. MySQL is easy to use, and designed to run quickly even with very large databases. Today, we showed you some of the basics of MySQL on a UNIX-based system, including basic administration, help commands, different options available, and examples of SQL statements. Keep in mind that MySQL, like most other implementations of SQL, has its own features and extensions that may not be available in other implementations. As with any relational database, the exact syntax of commands may vary, but the concepts behind managing data with SQL are the same.
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