21/10/2021
As you continue your Golang learning journey, it becomes almost inevitable that you will have to interact with some form of database.
In this tutorial I’ll be demonstrating how you can connect to a MySQL database and perform basic SQL statements using Go.
WHY MYSQL ?
MySQL is one of the most well-known and well-used database technologies available to developers at the present point in time. It has an absolutely massive community around it and it’s quite possibly powering half the web as the main database technology for Wordpress.
It’s incredibly easy to spin up a MySQL instance locally and thus it’s perfect for building some decent applications on top of.
