What is MYSQL
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What is MySQL?
MySQL is the most popular Open Source Relational SQL Database Management System. MySQL is one of the best RDBMS being used for developing various web-based software applications. MySQL is developed, marketed and supported by MySQL AB, which is a Swedish company. This tutorial will give you a quick start to MySQL and make you comfortable with MySQL programming.
MySQL Database
MySQL is a fast, easy-to-use RDBMS being used for many small and big businesses. MySQL is developed, marketed and supported by MySQL AB, which is a Swedish company. MySQL is becoming so popular because of many good reasons −
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MySQL is released under an open-source license. So you have nothing to pay to use it.
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MySQL is a very powerful program in its own right. It handles a large subset of the functionality of the most expensive and powerful database packages.
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MySQL uses a standard form of the well-known SQL data language.
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MySQL works on many operating systems and with many languages including PHP, PERL, C, C++, JAVA, etc.
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MySQL works very quickly and works well even with large data sets.
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MySQL is very friendly to PHP, the most appreciated language for web development.
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MySQL supports large databases, up to 50 million rows or more in a table. The default file size limit for a table is 4GB, but you can increase this (if your operating system can handle it) to a theoretical limit of 8 million terabytes (TB).
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MySQL is customizable. The open-source GPL license allows programmers to modify the MySQL software to fit their own specific environments.