MySQL is an open source relational database management system (RDBMS) that uses Structured Query Language (SQL), the most popular language for adding, accessing, and processing data in a database. It is downloadable from mySQL website (http://www.mysql.com) and tailor it to their needs in accordance with the general public license. MySQL is noted mainly for its speed, reliability, and flexibility.

Explore an Open Source (GPL) Standard Query Language (SQL) database that is fast, reliable, easy to use, and suitable for applications of any size. Learn the important SQL commands and how to automate database interaction with Perl and the DataBase Independent interface (DBI)....   Read Article.

This chapter is a practical guide to achieving good grammar and style when modeling information in XML, which translates to building flexible applications that perform well with minimal programming effort....   Read Article.

Discover the importance, type, and function of keys as they relate to your work. You will also learn the relationship of keys to various tables and which keys should be used with those tables....   Read Article.

Get the important foundational information you need to fully understand and successfully build your Guerrilla Oracle database. You will explore five important topics, including databases, the Oracle Server environment, SQL programming languages, development tools, and the Web....   Read Article.

if you were building a database-driven web site, your choice was either to invest a lot of money to get a copy of Microsoft SQL Server (or some other enterprise-ready database) or invest a lot of time finding a way to deal with the performance and scalability limitations of Microsoft Access. Luckily these days there's another viable......   Read Article.

By Duncan Lamb September 20, 1999 Introduction Everyone is looking for ways to make their sites attract more repeat traffic. Even after you have content, bulletin boards and search functions, there's still more you can do. As you probably know, different people that come to your site probably come for different parts of your site, but there's...   Read Article.

Can't find the information you're after? Try searching our forums instead! By: Matthew Phillips Published: 22nd Oct 2003 Type: Tutorial Rating: How would you rate this article: Bad Good Go » Introduction This article is geared towards people who want to code and test their own, or other people's, php scripts on their Windows box. No advanced...   Read Article.

By Kai Voigt June 09, 1999 Overview What is Roxen Challenger? Roxen Challenger is an open source web server, developed by Idonex , Sweden, and a big community of Roxen users on the net. It runs on most UNIX platforms as well as on Windows NT and offers all required features of a modern web server. Strong 128bit-encryption with SSL FTP server Proxy server...   Read Article.

By: Mitchell Harper Published: 02nd Apr 2002 Type: Tutorial Rating: Introduction Try surfing around the Internet and finding me a popular site that isn't using some sort of database to store its content. I bet you'll have a tough time trying to find just one popular site (i.e. a site with over 5,000 unique visitors a day) that doesn't...   Read Article.

By Israel Denis Jr. and Eugene Otto June 26, 2000 Objective For this second half of The Soothingly Seemless Setup of a Web Server , we'll be learning how to set up virtual hosts, virtual hosts that use SSL, and create our own certificates! If you don't have the Apache server installed, take a look at the first part of the tutorial, the The Soothingly...   Read Article.

By Eric Seufert February 14, 2001 Introduction Quite possibly one of PHP s least utilized yet most valuable features is its support for Variable Variables. I stumbled across this concept just recently while working on a quot;Fiction Portalquot; project for a gaming website. Users of the service could submit their own fictional stories to a program...   Read Article.

Can't find the information you're after? Try searching our forums instead! By: John Coggeshall Published: 05th Jun 2003 Type: Tutorial Rating: How would you rate this article: Bad Good Go » The Article Intended Audience This tutorial is intended for the PHP programmer interested in developing a useful and dynamic banner advertisement system using...   Read Article.

Can't find the information you're after? Try searching our forums instead! By: Computerworld Team Published: 15th Apr 2003 Type: Tutorial Rating: How would you rate this article: Bad Good Go » Introduction The following tips on object-oriented PHP programming are excerpted from the newly released second edition of PHP and MySQL Web Development,...   Read Article.

Can't find the information you're after? Try searching our forums instead! By: Eric 'phpfreak' Rosebrock Published: 10th Apr 2003 Type: Tutorial Rating: How would you rate this article: Bad Good Go » Page 1 When you are running a large volume website that requires alot of mysql_query action you'll probably want to consider ways...   Read Article.

Can't find the information you're after? Try searching our forums instead! By: Eric 'phpfreak' Rosebrock Published: 27th Mar 2003 Type: Tutorial Rating: How would you rate this article: Bad Good Go » Introduction One of the most unique and handy features of PHP and MySQL is the ability to create a user based login system for your...   Read Article.

By Vikram Vaswani May 01, 2002 A Matter Of Choice There's something patently unfair going on here. For some reason, almost every PHP tutorial on the planet makes the implicit assumption that if you're using PHP with a database, that database is going to be MySQL. Now, I have absolutely nothing against MySQL - I think it's a great product,...   Read Article.

By: Joe O'Donnell Published: 15th Mar 2002 Type: Tutorial Rating: Introduction In my time as a web developer and database administrator, I've come to love the combination of PHP and Microsoft SQL Server to deliver dynamic content to my clients. I know that MySQL is the most popular database to use with PHP, but PHP includes support for many other databases,...   Read Article.

By Ying Zhang May 20, 1999 Introduction This guide walks you through installing a web server, an SQL database server, and a server-side scripting tool that ties everything together. Some of the more popular tools for doing this are Apache, MySQL, and PHP3. This is what you will have accomplished after successfully completing this guide: setup the MySQL...   Read Article.

By: Jayesh Jain Published: 03rd Oct 2002 Type: Tutorial Rating: How would you rate this article: Bad Good Go » Introduction If you're a fan of PHP then you may have PHP installed on an Apache web server using MySQL as the backend on a Windows or Linux machine. Most people will develop and test their code on a Windows machine until they move it...   Read Article.

By: Corbb O'Connor Published: 08th Aug 2002 Type: Tutorial Rating: How would you rate this article: Bad Good Go » Introduction If you have ever attempted to learn a scripting language such as PHP, MySQL, or ASP on your own, then you know how difficult it can be. I have discovered a way to create a website without using any complex scripting language,...   Read Article.