MySQL is a very powerful, SQL-based, relational database server application. MySQL features fast, robust functionality, network access, highly customizable security, and development interfaces for most popular programming languages including C, Perl, PHP, and more. Your Freedom product provides a full implementation of this popular database system and a command line client for issuing commands to the server in standard structured query language (SQL).
Using MySQL, you can create large databases consisting of multiple tables than can be accessed quickly through the command line, through Web applications written in languages such as Perl or PHP. Your databases can be accessed from applications on the server itself, or by applications running on a remote server or PC. Among the many available interfaces and applications for MySQL is an ODBC driver called MyODBC. A Windows PC with the MyODBC driver installed on it can use ODBC compliant applications such as MS Access, Excel, and more to access data from a MySQL database. Such applications make it simple to populate your MySQL databases from anywhere.
Complete and thorough documentation for MySQL is available at the MySQL Web site, which is located at the following URL:
In addition, there are tutorials on various topics relating to MySQL in the Freedom User Tutorials document.
For more information on using ODBC to connect to MySQL from your PC, we recommend the MyODBC tutorial found on the PHP Help Web site, which is located at the following URL: