I have created a MySQL Professionals Group for networking with others in the space, in the tradition of the Oracle Professionals group and the SQL Server Professionals groups that I already participate in.
This is a great way to network with other professionals in your field of work. I hope you join us.
To join, please follow this invitation link.
Paul
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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