I'm working on a MacBook: the $900 MacBook Air. There is only 128GB of space on the drive. I didn't want to install database engines on this machine. I did consider installing MySQL on my wife's old laptop. I got as far as wiping Windows 10 from the hard drive and installing Ubuntu, but it very slowly occurred to me that maintaining a database server would be a chore.
It takes enough work to learn this entirely new stack. I wanted to offload some of the tedious administrative stuff. I realized, I can use a database from my GoDaddy account. Yay! I created my database, username, and password.
I installed MySQL Workbench on my MacBook, added the connection, and immediately started creating tables. Well...actually, not quite. Lot's of things still work the way I'm expecting, but not everything. I've created one table, and It will take some reading and practice to do even this well. I'm just grateful that I remembered I could just use a database on my web host and avoid the maintenance of a database server.
It takes enough work to learn this entirely new stack. I wanted to offload some of the tedious administrative stuff. I realized, I can use a database from my GoDaddy account. Yay! I created my database, username, and password.
I installed MySQL Workbench on my MacBook, added the connection, and immediately started creating tables. Well...actually, not quite. Lot's of things still work the way I'm expecting, but not everything. I've created one table, and It will take some reading and practice to do even this well. I'm just grateful that I remembered I could just use a database on my web host and avoid the maintenance of a database server.