new to MySQL, need some clarifications...

[spewn]

Ok, this is my basic understanding of databasing (sp)...there is SQL, the language of db's. then there is MySQL, which is a version of the former with its own structure...new and improved.

so my question is the hosting company i use says they will offer me "15 MB MySQL Database4" to utilize. is this enough(?) and if so, should i learn SQL first then learn the rules of MySql?

is it like learning the basics of an automobile, then learning a specific model of car? any ideas?

how about books...what have you all learned with?

any help or direction is appreciated.

and should i learn asp as well, or can i query and return results using perl and html only?

- g

 

[swampBoogie]

The SQL used in Mysql is not new and improved. Mysql has implemented a small (compared to other DBMS) subset of SQL and have added some new constructions. These additions are (with a few exceptions) redundancies and in some cases outright bad (i.e. group by and the loose data type handlig and missing data integrity checks).

My recommendation is that you learn SQL from some other source than the Mysql documentation.