Posted: December 23rd, 2011, 6:00am MST
Let's be honest: unless you're a multifaceted, good-at-everything web developer, with skills that go beyond the boundaries of (X)HTML, CSS, JavaScript and the server-side language of your choice, most of the time you'll be reluctant to deal with the oddities of MySQL. With lots of frameworks and libraries that will do the leg work for you and handle the interaction with the database server, you'd rarely need to spend your valuable time diving into its lower-level features. After all, that's what systems administrators are for, right? While the actual tasks you'll be performing with MySQL will ...