Re: What is best way to learn MySQL from the bottom up?

[Peter Brawley]

> lots of stuff seems very outdated.

Example?

Working through the early manual chapters is a good start.

Download the sakila sample db and play with it, write queries for it.

Then work through a textbook of relational database design, one that includes coverage of MySQL.

Then try your hand at designing a database, following a systematic approach like http://www.artfulsoftware.com/dbdesignbasics.html