Do I have MySQL installed?

Hi everybody, I'm coming from webdesign and client-side programming and new to all that PHP stuff. Now I'm trying to build a db with MySQL. The phpinfo() command printed out the following extract: [...] Syslog No additional information. ----------------------------------------------------- MySQL Allow persistent links: Yes Persistent links: 0/Unlimited Total links: 0/Unlimited Client API version: 3.22.30 Compilation definitions: MYSQL_INCLUDE= MYSQL_LFLAGS= MYSQL_LIBS= ------------------------------------------------------ Socket functions No additional information. [...] My question is about the MySQL part - Does this mean that my webspace-provider has some kind of MySQL installed and I just don't know how to access it (would be question #2!) or is it just what my PHP-version would support (if I had MySQL)??? Of course do I know mysql_create_db() or the mysql_connect() command, but I'm unsure about the parameters. Unfortunately, most tutorials or examples start like this : "Just for argument's sake, let's pretend that MySQL is already installed on your system, and you have a valid username and password for an existing database. Let's also assume that you've created a table on that database, called..." Thanks in advance, Robin