KWLUG Meeting: May 3 2010

Khalid Baheyeldin of 2bits.com will give a presentation on the the MySQL database.

MySQL is a popular and free database management system used in many applications, and by many web sites.

• Relational databases and SQL
• What is MySQL?
• History of MySQL?
• Who is using MySQL?
• Advantages and disadvantages
• The plethora of MySQL engines
• The MyISAM and InnoDB engines
• Creating a database
• Creating tables
• Inserting, retrieving and deleting data
• Backup, replication and repair
• The future of MySQL

The slides from the presentation are now here.