MySQL Tutorials, Tips & Tricks

MySQL is a relational database management system (RDBMS) that runs as a server providing multi-user access to a number of databases. It is named after developer Michael Widenius’ daughter, My. The SQL phrase stands for Structured Query Language.


Free-software-open source projects that require a full-featured database management system often use MySQL. For commercial use, several paid editions are available, and offer additional functionality. Applications which use MySQL databases include: TYPO3, Joomla, WordPress, phpBB, Drupal and other software built on the LAMP software stack. MySQL is also used in many high-profile, large-scale World Wide Web products, including Wikipedia, Google (though not for searches), Facebook and Twitter.

How To Reset MySQL Autoincrement Column

MySQL database provides a wonderful feature of Autoincrement Column index. Your database table can define its primary key as Autoincrement number and MySQL will take care of its unique value while inserting new rows....

How to: Reset MySQL root password

Resetting the root password of a MySQL database is trivial if you know the current password if you don’t it is a little trickier. Thankfully it isn’t too difficult to fix, and here we’ll...