How to install a MySql Server

A famous quote from one of the leading figures in Computer Science, Edsger W. Dijkstra, states that Computer Science is as much about computers as Astronamy is about telescopes. The comment he made was on the name of the discipline, favouring Dataology as the term. The foundations of any program is the data structures that the algorithms operate on. Without persistant storage a computer would be little more than a calculator. Building on the last tutorial we will now look at how your Web server will use persistant read/writable storage in order to turn static documents into an interactive application. The method of storage that will be discussed in this article is the SQL database. This article will simply act as a guide to installation. More in depth tutorials on the vast domain of relational database theory will follow. If you are running Windows then visit the MySql downloads page and dowloadand intall the community server. If you are running Linux then type

apt-get install mysql-server

in the terminal.