Is this an appropriate forum for help with beginners dba questions? I've installed MAMP and Wordpress on a local machine to learn about databases.  

Can anyone recommend a 'hello world' type tutorial, where I can create my own database within this environment?  

I would like to make a database to track who I loan things to.. so I imagine starting with two tables: 

users 
    userId 
    name 
    phone 
    email address 

assets 
    assetId 
    make 
    model 
    serial 
    borrowers_id


If there is a more appropriate forum for these, please let me know!  Thank you in advance, this is my first post on stackexchange.
From your tag I assume that you are into mySQL. Do you like video tutorials? 

There are plenty of very good ones on YouTube:

Playlist with simple mySQL tutorials:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g883j_5JsUc&amp;list=PLvVojG9m055L_khQ4BhO5yYbrcEB23jOQ 

Another one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdGKgasqKCs&amp;list=PLyTQS5V4iATQTdd8DqI5-NQ3HYUOMYtZE

My reputation doesn't allow me to post more links, but as soon as it goes up I'll add many more.