Using jQuery to manipulate MySQL Database

Using jQuery to manipulate MySQL Database

Hi everyone.
This is my first post. I was hoping to see if anyone has done much
with jQuery to manipulate MySQL data. Here's the scenario: I am making
a leaderboard that has race competitors, their times, and position
(among other attributes). The data is being fed into the MySQL
database and I want to display the data on a leaderboard with live
updates and position changes. I figured jQuery would be a good way to
get to animation and effects I want. Has anyone done anything similar
to this or have any ideas which functions would be useful for this
project? Thanks.
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