Re: MySQL - Howto

  Do you already have a MySQL server up?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tim Emerick" <timothyemerick-/[email protected]>
To: "nmlug nmlug" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, February 25, 2008 4:31 PM
Subject: [NMLUG] MySQL - Howto


> I've been using MS Excel's Pivot Tables for years to analyze large chunks 
> of data.  I'm getting to the point where my data is getting to be more 
> lines than Excel can handle.  I'm thinking it's time to actually learn a 
> DBMS and some SQL.  Of course I would like to go towards MySQL but it's a 
> little intimidating.
>
> Can anybody offer some books or websites that might offer some help?  I'm 
> not sure where I want to end up but I know that I want to eventually keep 
> a repository of approximately 470,000 records per year and be able to 
> generate various reports.  Mind you, I'm not a programmer in any sense of 
> the word.  Would love if I could use Excel Pivot Tables as the reporting 
> tool with MySQL as the back end.
>
> LAMP?  Ruby on Rails?  phpMyAdmin?  Something else?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Tim
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