Thanks for your comment.
It's quite easy to connect using PHP :
```PHP

<?php
$serverName = "sql.steemsql.com";
$connectionInfo = array( "Database"=>"DBSteem", "UID"=>"steemit", "PWD"=>"steemit");
$conn = sqlsrv_connect( $serverName, $connectionInfo);

if( $conn ) {
     echo "Connection established.<br />";
}else{
     echo "Connection could not be established.<br />";
     die( print_r( sqlsrv_errors(), true));
}
?>

```

You can get Uniserver, it's a nice lightweight server with httpd & sql, Apache 2.0(which supports PHP, javascript and the likes) and MySql respectively. Which works on Windows. Nice security, but i wouldn't use it for a production website, i only use it for development and having my own intranet(for having a family website so we can write each other, post news, chores, appointments, etc.. that's just on our own network) . I don't work for Uniserver, i just like their product. I just read you have a mac, so um ya, windows isn't mac, but i'll keep the post up incase anyone else may find it useful.