Even if you've never used MySQL before, this Visual QuickStart Guide will have you up and running with the world? S source of the most popular database applications open in a short time. In a fully updated edition of our best-selling guide to MySQL, leading technology author Larry Ullman uses his trademark crystal-clear instructions and friendly prose to introduce you to everything that is MySQL? S new. Filled with step-by-step, task-based instructions and lots of visual aids, this book explains how to interact with MySQL using SQL, the language common to all databases. This book covers MySQL versions 3 and 4, as well as everything new in-awaited version 5. Along the way, you'll find extensive coverage of MySQL installation, administration, database design, and use with various programming languages, database programming techniques, utilities, advanced MySQL and SQL, and more!