clbembry Posted March 15, 2008 Share Posted March 15, 2008 I'm trying to learn PHP to help my site along it's way. I have a couple questions about MySQL's.If you could answer any of these it would be a great help!1. Does MySQL and SQL mean the same thing? If not what are the differences?2. Are they used to store users accounts (for forums)3. If they are used to store that kind of information, is 1 database equal to one user?Thank you in advance for your help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Synook Posted March 15, 2008 Share Posted March 15, 2008 1. Does MySQL and SQL mean the same thing? If not what are the differences?MySQL is a database management system (an application that handles databases) that you can communicate with through SQL (Structured Query Language, a language that most DBMSs can understand).2. Are they used to store users accounts (for forums)They could be3. If they are used to store that kind of information, is 1 database equal to one user?Argh no! Not unless you wanted to be super-inefficient or each user had over about 1 GB of information each. Generally, you would create a table in your database with each column being something about the user, e.g. username, password, dob, etc. Then each row of the table would contain one user's details. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clbembry Posted March 15, 2008 Author Share Posted March 15, 2008 Ok thankyou very much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Archived
This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.