[Gryphon]

RE: Optionally connect to a remote TeamSpeak database...;
If you have purchased TeamSpeak hosting from a voice comm service provider, it is highly unlikely they will grant you database access.

RE: For best results and performance...;
If they share the database it doesn't have to make a slow external connection.

RE: Make sure these tables exist...;
By default TeamSpeak does not use a MySQL database, this is something people who host their own TeamSpeak servers do before even downloading the mod. On top of that, if the MySQL database is remote, you have to take steps to know the authentication information and you have to add the ip of the requesting service to MySQL.

This requirement ensures that the user has at least completed the necessary steps unrelated to this mod, because without them this mod will just add confusion.