Get up to speed on MySQL basics with this step-by-step tutorial on how to create a database, add a table, and input data into the table.

I’ll use MySQL Working 6.3, which has drastically evolved from older versions of the tool. My instance of MySQL Workbench will connect to a MySQL database, housed on Ubuntu Server 18.04.

How to Use a SQL Database and cPanel. If your business's website hosting is powered by cPanel, you can easily create new SQL databases through its user-friendly interface.

MySQL and MariaDB offer a veritable forest of database- and installation-specific configuration options—collations, indexing, performance tuning, storage engines, etc.

Looking to use an open source general-purpose database? This extensive comparison of MySQL vs. PostgreSQL explores the strengths and weaknesses of each.

MySQL is the second most popular database in use, according the DB-Engines Ranking, and is a key element of the LAMP — Linux, Apache HTTP Server, MySQL, PHP — open-source web development stack.