Introduction to MySQL

MySQL is a Relational Database that stores Data in the form of tables and create relations among the tables in the forms of Indexes to retrieve related information easily.MySQL provides you the command line Interface as well as GUI (Graphical User Interface). MySQL is pronounced as “My Sequel”, it is named after the daughter of Michael Widenius’s daughter, “My” and the SQL stands for “Structured Query Language”.Every RDBMS has features for accessing, creating, inserting, manipulating the data through some API’s or tools provided by it.

Before the development of RDBMS, flat file system or RAW tables was in use which was very inefficient in accessing those tables from the system. So nowadays, we have Relational database management systems (RDBMS) to store and manage huge volume of data.