I intended to fit the entire tutorial into one screencast, but that quickly became a pipe dream as I realized that there was simply too much to cover. Nevertheless, even if you only watch this first video, you should learn a great deal.

MySQL FAQs - Server Daemon mysqld Administration.

In this lesson we’ll start creating the classes needed to handle all the administrative tasks.

FTP Administration with full logging via PHP.

Before you can create a database, you must first learn how to start and shutdown the database, which are basic database administration skills.

Identify networking business trends.