GUI based admin for MySQL

5.1 is the current production release of MySQL

I like the "nutshell" books. This one teaches PHP.

Quoted: Amazon.com: PHP in a Nutshell (In a Nutshell (O'Reilly)): Paul Hudson: Books

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This looks like a good integrated introduction to both PHP and MySQL. It was published in 2004 - but does include PHP 5.

Quoted: Amazon.com: Web Database Applications with PHP & MySQL, 2nd Edition: Hugh E. Williams,David Lane: Books

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Quick way to get a Drupal install on your Windows machine (thanks, Robin!)

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Google is releasing GPL'ed patches to MySQL for better data center management:

Quoted: The high availability features include support for semi-synchronous replication, mirroring the binlog from a master to a slave, quickly promoting a slave to a master during failover, and keeping InnoDB and replication state on a slave consistent during crash recovery.
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The manageability features include new SQL statements for monitoring resource usage by table and account. This includes the ability to count the number of rows fetched or changed per account or per table. It also includes the number of seconds of database time an account uses to execute SQL commands.