about MySQL

MySQL is a multithreaded, multi-user SQL database management system (DBMS). The basic program runs as a server providing multi-user access to a number of databases.

History
MySQL was first released internally on 23 May 1995
Windows version released on January 8, 1998 for Windows 95 and NT
Version 3.23: beta from June 2000, production release January 2001
Version 4.0: beta from August 2002, production release March 2003 (unions)
Version 4.1: beta from June 2004, production release October 2004 (R-trees and B-trees, subqueries, prepared statements)
Version 5.0: beta from March 2005, production release October 2005 (cursors, stored procedures, triggers, views, XA transactions)
Version 5.1: currently pre-production (since November 2005) (event scheduler, partitioning, plugin API, row-based replication, server log tables)
Sun Microsystems acquires MySQL AB on 26 February 2008 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MySQL

Tutorial for MySQL http://edu.itbulo.com/db/mysql/
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