diff --git a/GETTING_STARTED.md b/GETTING_STARTED.md
index 2a8e570..2a4fa4a 100644
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@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ file are found in the comments within the file.
 
 Any database supported by the Perl:DBI and Perl::DBD modules can be used with 
 the site-generator program. Currently the hpr_generator project works with 
-a MySQL or SQLite database.
+an SQLite database.
 
 Find the [DBI] section of the file. It should look like the following
 
@@ -146,26 +146,6 @@ The hpr.db section of the driver option `dbi:SQLite:hpr.db` is the path
 to the sqlite file. The default assumes the hpr.db file is located in the same
 directory as the site-generator. 
 
-### MySQL
-
-Remove the comment character from the start of the database, driver, 
-user, and password option lines:
-
- ```
-# Configuration settings for MySQL
-database: mysql
-driver: dbi:mysql:database=hpr_hpr:hostname=localhost 
-user: hpr-generator
-password: *********
-```
-
-This assumes that the MySQL database service is available at the localhost 
-hostname, that the database name (hpr_hpr) is the database created from 
-the hpr.sql dump file or manually created by you, that the user (hpr-generator) 
-was added by you and has read rights to the hpr_hpr database, and that the 
-password (replace ********* with the actual password) matches the password set 
-for the hpr-generator database user.
-
 ## Configuring the website for viewing locally
 
 For HTML links to work when viewing the files on your local machine using the