Docker and MySQL

Containers are all the rage, and Docker is the container engine of choice these days.  So, I wanted to provide this tutorial for setting up a MySQL server instance in a Docker container.

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Learning SQL

For those new to it, SQL can be difficult initially to wrap your head around.  One of the reasons is because it requires a different type of thinking from other languages like Java, Python, or C. You have to learn to think in sets (remember all those Venn diagrams from various places throughout school?). [Read more…]