How to Insert a String in MySQL. MySQL database servers may not come with graphical administration tools, but that is the price your small business pays for free database software.

How to Insert Commas & Quotes in MySQL. Special characters require the MySQL escape character to indicate to the server that you want to insert the characters without executing any secondary code.

This is mostly a question of the database driver. For the initial version I chose the most popular mysql node.js driver. It has the major advantage of being 100 percent Javascript.