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Ok, it’s nothing specail. I guess I could have gone to the mall and made “moo” noises instead of just sit home “not buying anything”. It does make you think about how much we actually buy on a daily basis, though. I was tempted a couple of times.

Just remember, being a master of MySQL doesn’t make you a master of databases. It doesn’t make you a database admin. It’s just a language that is actually very simple. Once you figure out CREATE, SELECT, SHOW, INSERT, and UPDATE, you pretty much know 80% of everything you need to know to get some real use out of it.

Also, O’Reilly’s book “MySQL Pocket Reference” has everything you need to know about MySQL. However, it won’t make you a good database designer. That takes a lot of time and effort.

PHP is a fun, easy to uses programming language. It’s a good first language to try out, if you’ve never programmed before and if you want to program for the web.

There’s really not much of a learning curve to learning PHP. You can pretty much just jump right in as long as you have a PHP-enabled server. However, there are over 2000 functions in the core language, and with PHP5, object-oriented programming is a big part of it. That’s why I like it so much. You can get started today, and, 5 years from now, you will still have a long way to go before you’ve mastered it.