PHP and MySQL Tutorial - Lesson 1 Open source has brought a lot more than Linux to the computing world. It has also given us PHP and MySQL.

The latest major revision, MySQL 8, fixes a number of long-standing issues with MySQL—changes major enough to demand a revision to the left of the decimal point.

In this tutorial, we will access MySQL from the local machine through the popular MySQL Workbench. First, let us make sure that the MySQL data service is provisioned for us.