Once, a long time ago, I wrote about Mark Liyanage's MySQL installation tutorial. Fantastic for getting the stuff installed on your machine. Today I came across this Beginner MySQL Tutorial from PHP Beginner. Fantastic for actually figuring out how to use MySQL once its installed. Like chocolate and peanut butter.
(Request for Apple: install MySQL by default in 10.2 for all us app developers who'd love to have guaranteed database access on user's machines. Please?)