What's the Mac's equivalent of services?

I installed mysql for development, but I don't know how to turn it on or off. Is there a list of services running where I can turn it on or off?

if you installed it it should be running

if you want a GUI manager for it try the open source app

http://cocoamysql.sourceforge.net/

I know it's running, and I have the admin tools, but in Windows there a gui to see all the services running on the machine. I want to know if there's something similar on the Mac.

Activity Monitor? (Applications->Utilities->Activity Monitor)

It monitors processes; there aren't really services such as there are in the Windows world. On Mac OS X which is really a UNIX everything running is a process. Activity Monitor should get you seeing which processes are running, and give you the opportunity to kill (quit) any process relevant to your sql server.

Ah, thanks.