I need a good basic intro guide to databases and MySQL which I'll be using at work to query data and create tables that I can transfer into R for statistical analysis.
Databases were my bete noir at school and at uni, so I need some help. I've taught myself R so I CAN do this, but all the obvious help sites assume a basic working knowledge of databases and the differences between database servers and management tools etc ..... 
Tech guy at work has helped me download MySQL workbench and we have got the data onto my machine, now I just need to learn what I DO with it!
suggestions of good websites/tutorials/books please (in the end I found books on R were ironically more useful than websites!)