Oh andthe little kick you get it quite rewarding, too
I recently had my news on a .txt file and imported it into MySQL and it works great
The foirst time I started usign MySQL was with that benchmark database project and it has definately got good points
Ok the basic terms of using a MySQL database.
It's 100 times easier if you have access to your server's PHPMyAdmin. You can see what works and won't need to worry about having to code a table-creating script as well as that app will do it for you.