i m using fedora i686 and wants to use mysql on it.
But i dont know how to install it and make use of it, means how to conigure clients and servers etc. How to create tables on linux using mysql. How to install various gui tools> Please help. Any help will be appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

I'm quite sure that you can install from the repositories (yum ?)

You can start reading the mysql v5 reference manual.

You can install MySQL on Fedora by su'ing to root and typing:-

yum install MySQL-\*

This *should* install both the server and the client. After that has done, you can start the MySQL server (assuming it doesn't start automatically) with: -

/etc/rc.d/init.d/mysqld start

...and access the database with: -

mysql -u root

(Might want to set a password on the root account - Google on how to do this, but I believe the server install tells you how to do it as well)

To create a database with one simple table from the mysql client: -

CREATE DATABASE <name>;
USE <name>;

CREATE TABLE mytable (
myID UNSIGNED INT NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY,
data VARCHAR(255)
);

Insert some data into our simple table: -

INSERT INTO mytable(data) VALUES ('Hello World!');

And pull the data back out...

SELECT myID, data FROM mytable;

And see the table with-

SHOW TABLES;

...and also...

SHOW DATABASES;

Quit the client with 'exit'.

Google for MySQL tutorials if you want to know more. I don't use any GUI tools with MySQL myself, so I don't know any to recommend. Anyway, hope this helps.

Thanx araahsi256, I m very much thankful to u for helping me coming out of this problem.
Thanks