can somebody recommend some good reference material

[bookouri]

Ive been wading through the 1700+ page manual for mysql. Can somebody recommend any "condensed" references where I can get the basics without trying to wade through everything just to figure out how to find out the basics like what users exist and what permissions they have, are my data files full and need extending... etc...

any recommendations would be appreciated..

 

[bookouri]

I found an application called MySQL-Front that is really helpful in getting me oriented to where everything is in mysql. Its comparable to TOAD for Oracle developers.