MySQL is the world’s most popular open source database software.MySQL is owned by a single for-profit firm,the swedish company MySQL AB now a subsidiary of Sun Microsystems which holds the copywrite to most of the codebase.If you are looking for a stable database platform for your organisation but you cannot afford the main stream products from microsoft and oracle?then MySQL having an excellent speed and reliability might be the best option for you.Moreover MySQL is easy to use,so if you are a new user then also using MySQL is not a difficult task for you.Vikram Vasvani’s book MySQL:the complete reference is,as the name suggest’s a complete reference bok for MySQL and can be very useful to the new users for MySQL.The wonderful technical reference in the book is comprehensive enough to help you out if you are a new or a seasoned user for MySQL.
MySQL is popular for web applications and also acts as the database component of the LAMP,BAMP,MAMP and WAMP platforms(Linux/BSD/Mac/Windows,Apache,MySQL,PHP/Perl/Python) and does not require complex scripting or programming.