Chapter 3. MySQL

Table of Contents
3.1. In this section...
3.2. MySQL features
3.3. Comparisions with other popular DBMSs
3.4. Getting MySQL
3.5. Setting up MySQL databases
3.6. The MySQL client
3.7. Understanding the MySQL client prompts
3.8. Exercises
3.9. Section summary

3.1. In this section...

In this section we examine the popular database MySQL, which is available for free for many platforms. MySQL is just one of many database systems which can be accessed via Perl's DBI module.