Welcome to tutorial no. 1 in our MySQL tutorial series. In this tutorial, we will connect to MySQL and create a database. We will also ping the DB to ensure that the connection is established properly. MySQL Series Index Connecting to MySQL and creating a Database Creating a Table and Inserting Rows Selecting single and multiple rows Prepared statements - WIP Updating rows - WIP Deleting rows - WIP Importing the MySQL driver The first step in creating the MySQL database is to download the MyS...