Do I Need to Learn SQL or MySQL or Something Like That?
For the vast majority of webmasters, you don’t need to learn SQL or learn how to use MySQL, even if you’re setting up a blog. The software you use, be it WordPress or something else, will do all the dirty work of storing and retrieving your data for you. All you need to learn is how to use that particular software (eg, WordPress). Things like MySQL and other databases are like the engines of a car. Just as you don’t need to learn how to design a car engine to be able to use a car, so also you do not need to know how to directly write to or read a MySQL database to use a blogging software. Of course, if you are a programmer, intending to write a computer program that actually accesses MySQL or some other SQL database, then you will need to learn SQL (as well as a programming language). But then, if you are one, you’ll probably already knew that. Note for the newcomer: you don’t need to be a programmer to be a webmaster. Creating a website, even if you manually code your website directly
