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MySQL is an Open Source database, based on SQL (Structured Query Language). It is fast, reliable, multiplatform and bugless.
MySQL is a powerful relational database allowing to manage big archives, both as regards the record number for each table and for the management of contemporary accesses.

To interact with users, MySQL is based on SQL standard language, permitting to store, update and use the information in a database.

It is a multi-user, multi-process database, because it can be used by many users at the same time and it allows you to answer simultanously to various requests.

MySQL allows to create web sites which can catalogue information. You can realize:
  • informative sites, making the access of users to the desired topics easier;
  • commercial sites which are a window of the company and, at the same time, help the future customers to collect information on products;
  • interactive sites which are at the same time containers and receivers of information.

MySQL is interesting at least for two reasons: it is free and it integrates with PHP language for the development of web sites, based on databases.    

PhpMyAdmin is a graphic interface, developed in PHP and displayable through a browser, which allows to interact with MySQL without having to write any lines in SQL code. It is released under GNU license and it can be distributed freely with the relevant source codes.

Through this interface you can create new databases, modify the existent ones and assume control on the contents of the each field.

PhpMyAdmin permits also to backup the data inside the database.