This MySQL role-playing game might be a good way to learn the syntax. Or it may just be a good way to get frustrated and bored.

Daniel Lyons argues that Sun's acquisition of MySQL represents "The end of open source as counterculture."

"Chyrp is a blogging engine designed to be very lightweight while retaining functionality. It is driven by PHP and MySQL (with some AJAX thrown in), and has a pimpin’ theme and module engine, so you can personalize it however you want."

This story describes Sun's strategy in buying the open-source database vendor. These databases are better suited for Web applications than datacenter products from Oracle and IBM.

Here's an installer for Apache, MySQL, and PHP for OS X.

Google has monkeyed with putting hooks into the open-source database package MySQL for internal use, and now it has agreed to merge its improvements into the mainstream version of the software. Some speculate it's for integrating third-party machines into