newbies questions

version 5 is free?
needs to run on a server?
has a user interface? like ms enterprise manager?
easy to set up and use?

mcnews wrote:
> version 5 is free?

There is a Community Edition available - yes.

> needs to run on a server?

A server opposed to what? MySQL needs Hardware and an operating system
to run on.

> has a user interface? like ms enterprise manager?

MySQL as RDBMS does not offer a GUI, MySQL as company offers GUI tools
like MySQL Administrator and MySQL Querybuilder - yes.

> easy to set up and use?

There is a fine manual at http://dev.mysql.com that answers most if not
all questions. Of course MySQL is a complex piece of software and you
will have to gain experience for example in tuning the database. But
that is true for any software in that category.

Kai

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