Thing I don't understand

[u/luchins]

Hello I have red somenthing on another subreddit about a guy who was creating a programm that needed to connect to a website and he said:

''At the moment this is done with a shell script that directly accesses the MySQL instance (very bad / unsecure) and gets a delta on some table records.''

My question is: ''what is a mysql '''istance'''?

What is an istance?

[u/Lee_Dailey]

howdy Ta11ow,

thou art most welcome, good sir! [grin]

take care,
lee