20 Jan 08 Advice To Beginner Database Developers

If I were just starting out learning about databases, this is what I would do.

Make yourself a personal goal to learn as much about database concepts as you can. Don't limit yourself to MySQL or any one database system for that matter. There are a lot of peculiarities in the way certain features are implemented in certain ways, depending on the engine that you will not find in any other database system.