This year, we dedicated our MySQL Basics blog series to those setting out on their first database journey. Designed especially for beginners, each post brought approachable lessons, meaningful analogies, and practical examples to help you develop a confident, hands-on understanding of MySQL fundamentals. Series Highlights Understanding the Building Blocks of DatabasesWe kicked things off by […]
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Here is the video of “Database Basics”, which I presented at the
February 2008 Boston MySQL User Group meeting. The presentation
goes over the basics of relations, data, the Entity-Relationship
Model, how to choose data types, and how to do basic
CREATE statements.
You can download:
the video (Large, 500 MB, or Small, 100 MB)
and
the slides (PDF, 171 Kb).
Or just watch the video:
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