MySQL links

For a beginning web designer MySQL can seem a bit daunting, but a little learning goes a long way, when you get into making sites with WordPress or another CMS for instance, it pays to know how to get into phpMyAdmin (or sequelpro) and run sql queries on your database incase you need to search and replace text (just one example)

Tizag MySQL Tutorials

Great tutorial for beginners to learn MySQL.

Cocoa mySQL

Open Source Database manager you can use to connect and easily edit your database tables from local computer (mac only).