4. Introduction to MySQL
In This Chapter
Choosing Your Column Types 114
Choosing Other Column Properties 118
Because this book discusses how to integrate several technologies (primarily PHP, SQL, and MySQL), a solid understanding of each individually is important before you begin writing PHP scripts that use SQL to interact with MySQL. This chapter is a departure from its predecessors in that it temporarily leaves PHP behind to delve into MySQL.
MySQL is the world’s most popular open-source database application (according to MySQL’s Web site, www.mysql.com) and is commonly used with PHP. The MySQL software comes with the database server (which stores the actual data), different ...
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