How learn to use databases in WP?

  • With a lot of help from reading this forum, I have been able to install WP, get a site up a running, and learn a lot of the basics (enough to be dangerous).
    What I would like to do now is learn about databases.
    Basically I would love to learn just enough (no, seriously!) to build something like a web site for a baseball team, where one page will have everyone’s stats for the year, and then you can select a player and go to their bio page that will have all of their stats as well as additional info. So when I update a stat in the database, it will update all the pages on the website that reference this stat.
    I have no programmer friends, and everything I see online seems to assume a certain amount of knowledge I just don’t have.
    So I’m looking for any recommendations – websites, books, etc. from folks here that would give me a jump start. It’s OK that I skip lots of steps along the way – this isn’t my day job, I just like to learn stuff like this… And yes, if you say “go by SQL 101” or whatnot, that is totally cool – I know this is a pretty random request, but I like to learn by just diving in…

    Thanks!

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  • Presumably you got the LAMPP stack installed locally. ?

    You can access mysql from the command line, using php or via phpmyadmin. phpmyadmin is a good mysql interface to start with. Build a single page site and starting submitting / querying data.

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