No, use phpMyAdmin to export your database to an .sql file. It is a text file containing all queries to recreate your database.

Something like this:

select * from product where id not in (select product_id from discount)

$strSQL = "SELECT DISTINCT area FROM hospital where area like '%$strSearchVal' ";

Check out this first: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/
It contains everything you need to know to get started.

This will help:

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/storage-requirements.html

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/server-logs.html

It's all here: http://nl2.php.net/mysql_fetch_assoc


$sql = "SELECT DISTINCT year(date) AS 'year' FROM news ";
$result = mysql_query($sql);

while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result)) {
echo...