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MySQL
MySQL is part of the LAMP setup most often used by Silicon Dales for clients’ WordPress installs. That’s why you’ll find a bunch of tutorials, case studies and extension reviews mentioning MySQL on this page.
For those who want to know:
MySQL is an open-source relational database management system. Its name is a combination of “My”, the name of co-founder Michael Widenius’s daughter, and “SQL”, the abbreviation for Structured Query Language. (Wikipedia)
If you would like help with a MySQL setup, contact Silicon Dales.
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