Permalinks for MySQL output

I use WP for creating static information sites – not blogs. I have a range of data from my MySQL database, that I would like to echo to a list with a link to each page display the information from that row in the database.

Right now, their URLS look like this:

[…].php?id=27

I want it to be

[…]/[name from “name” column in my database]

When I look under the permalink menu, its seems like it only applies to posts. Can you guide me in the right direction?

Thank you!