In addition to relational databases and SQL, an RDBMS like MySQL works with an operating system to implement a relational database in a computer's storage system, manages users, allows for network access and facilitates testing database integrity and creation of backups. SQL is a language programmers use to create, modify and extract data from the relational database, as well as control user access to the database.
A relational database organizes data into one or more data tables in which data types may be related to each other these relations help structure the data. Its name is a combination of 'My', the name of co-founder Michael Widenius's daughter, and ' SQL', the abbreviation for Structured Query Language. MySQL ( / ˌ m aɪ ˌ ɛ s ˌ k juː ˈ ɛ l/) is an open-source relational database management system (RDBMS).
