MySQL is a powerful, sophisticated, and easy-to-use SQL database program. Using Perl and DBI, one can easily create programs to automate database management tasks. With this knowledge, the prospective web designer should be able to construct a database-based (for lack of a better term) web site that is portable, sophisticated, easy to manage, and professional appearing. We have examined only a small subset of all that MySQL provides (our 80/20 rule in effect).