<div>On 12/23/05, Hodgins Family <<a href="mailto:ehodgins@telusplanet.net">ehodgins@telusplanet.net</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Good evening! > > Can you guys recommend any books on how to use mysql? Im trying to > > make a database for my company. > > There's a lot to cover - database theory including normal forms, > the SQL language, and then the quirks and features of MySQL. > > Whichever book you choose, I suggest you install webmin and > webmin-mysql as it's a convenient way of working hands-on with > MySQL and will help to make the theory more concrete. > > Thanks for the feedback. I was thinking on something more on the > practical side. Im not a programmer or anything, I just want to know the > basics on how to make a database, so that if something goes wrong with > the ones we have I wont have to wait for the tech guys to come and fix > it. We dont have an IT team in the office so if there is an emergency I > have to get guys from another company to check it out. I've found a book called "SQL in Easy Steps" by Mike mcGrath to be quite useful. It is published by a British firm called Computer Step. Be forewarned, though. The book is command line oriented! The MySQL manual at Mysql's website is also quite interesting reading! Good luck and Merry Christmas! Rob -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users">http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </blockquote> </div> Rob, Thanks a lot. Charles -- "It is unwise to pay to much, but it is worse to pay too little; you sometimes lose everything becuase the thing you bought was incapable of doing the thing it was bought to do"