Database Newbie desperate to find some help!!!

Hi,

I have recently started to take an interest in databases. I have never worked with them and was looking for some free resources online to learn right from the very basics. Basically if you like it the ABC of databases. Could anyone give me some pointers as i have not been able to find any such material. I am looking to perhaps have a grounding in say Microsoft access that i have locally on my pc. Which has got a user interface which i believe would be easier to interact with at first and give me an understanding of what is going on. Would this be recomended? Then moving on to MySQL as i have access to a webserver running MySQL.

Thanks in advance.

Dan

Ps. I am willing to learn and dont want all the answers without putting in effort but do need some help to get me started.

there are plenty of good resources linked on my site

http://r937.com/links.cfm?links=sql

in particular, look for the data modelling tutorial at utexas ("Superb reference for ER modelling, keys, integrity, normalization")

rudy

Hi Rudy,

Thanks for you reply. I will take a look but you lost me somewhere when u went on about ER modelling, keys, integrity and normalization. Although i have heard some of these things they mean nothing to me at the moment.

Dan

sorry for the terminology, but those are the things you should learn first, the "ABC of databases"

rudy

Hi Rudy

Thanks for that. Can you tell me. Where i can find the terminology's that you refer to in simple english and what and why they are used. Remember i know nothing One day i hope to be able to write SQL statements. as well

Dan

http://www.utexas.edu/its/windows/d...e/datamodeling/

they explain the terminology fairly well