Overview In this tell-all tutorial, Jay Greenspan, author of MySQL Weekend Crash Course and co-author of MySQL/PHP Database Applications, starts with a tour of the basics: He answers the age-old Q ...

In this tutorial, we will access MySQL from the local machine through the popular MySQL Workbench. First, let us make sure that the MySQL data service is provisioned for us.

Alternately you can compile MySQL from source. Dan Benjamin at Hive Logic has put together a nice tutorial on how to compile MySQL with instructions that will work on both Tiger and Leopard.