xcoderx Posted July 17, 2009 Share Posted July 17, 2009 Im takin a course for 1 year and it has, html, java, vb, oracle, php, sql and ftp. So after this will it be easy to understand php/mysql well? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akitchin Posted July 17, 2009 Share Posted July 17, 2009 Im takin a course for 1 year and it has, html, java, vb, oracle, php, sql and ftp. So after this will it be easy to understand php/mysql well? ... unless the course happens to be falsely advertising itself, then presumably yes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xcoderx Posted July 17, 2009 Author Share Posted July 17, 2009 Do not know and very hard to find any institution where i live that teaches php sql etc, mostly all c++ and stuff but my interest is php and mysql but i wonder is sql and mysql same or not? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philip Posted July 17, 2009 Share Posted July 17, 2009 SQL and MySQL are different. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ober Posted July 17, 2009 Share Posted July 17, 2009 SQL is a "language". MySQL is a DBMS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xcoderx Posted July 17, 2009 Author Share Posted July 17, 2009 Eh what do i do now? Do they both work differently? I already taken the admission Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akitchin Posted July 17, 2009 Share Posted July 17, 2009 Eh what do i do now? Do they both work differently? I already taken the admission are you aware there's an entire internet of information out there? google is popular for a reason, you know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xcoderx Posted July 17, 2009 Author Share Posted July 17, 2009 U r rite, made a huge mistake i saw php, sql so i thought i must be mysql eh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ober Posted July 17, 2009 Share Posted July 17, 2009 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xcoderx Posted July 17, 2009 Author Share Posted July 17, 2009 So by any means sql wil not get me close to understand mysql? Or after learning sql il also know or it would become easy for me to do php and mysql??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ober Posted July 17, 2009 Share Posted July 17, 2009 You need to start googling. MySQL is a database. It stores data. SQL is the syntax you use to query that data that you have stored and add more data to it (or remove data as the case may be). Neither has much to do with learning PHP. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xcoderx Posted July 17, 2009 Author Share Posted July 17, 2009 Ok last question, sites with php mysql do use the sql right? Like u said sql is syntax to query the data, so if i learn sql then it would help me with mysql too right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel0 Posted July 17, 2009 Share Posted July 17, 2009 SQL (Structured Query Language) is a language. MySQL is an RDBMS (relational database management system) that uses a dialect of SQL. PostreSQL, DB2, Oracle, SQLite and MS SQL Server are other examples that also use their own dialect of SQL. That means they each share common features, but also have unique proprietary features. It's the same way that you have English as a kind of general language, and then you have a lot of dialects and sociolects thereof. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xcoderx Posted July 17, 2009 Author Share Posted July 17, 2009 Thanks all for your help, have u all not learned sql? Or you have straight away learned mysql? To b able to make php and mysql site do we only have to learn php and mysql then? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel0 Posted July 17, 2009 Share Posted July 17, 2009 You would benefit from knowing what is standard SQL (i.e. what is part of the ANSI standard) and what is MySQL specific, but strictly speaking I suppose you don't need to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xcoderx Posted July 17, 2009 Author Share Posted July 17, 2009 Learned alot today, all these yearz i did fiddle around with mysql but neva realy knew wot it was. But anyways i should have made this topic n then taken my admision for the course, now my 1 year gone again il have to learn mysql after 1 year, what a waste. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philip Posted July 17, 2009 Share Posted July 17, 2009 I apologize if that sounds harsh but, if you can't grasp what Daniel/Ober tried to tell you about what MySQL/SQL is.... then I don't know how well you're going to do in that class at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xcoderx Posted July 17, 2009 Author Share Posted July 17, 2009 I did understand everything they said but i was trying to clear myself in if il after the course be able to do sites with php and mysql, i wanted to know if learning mysql would be easy later. Thats what i was trying to clear in my head. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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