All script applications like forums or web stores keep their information within a database - a group of cells and tables which contains all the website data like items, prices, comments, and so forth. Each time you open a specific page, the script connects to the database and retrieves the required data, then displays it. The intermediary software that connects the script and the database is known as a database management system and amongst the most famous ones is MySQL. The latter is commonly used as it operates on different platforms (Windows, UNIX, Linux) and with a number of scripting languages (PHP, Java, Perl, Python), not mentioning its wonderful effectiveness even with massive databases. Many widely used platforms including Joomla™ or WordPress employ MySQL databases to save their content.
