I think just surrounding it with link tags is all that would be needed:
<a href="<?php echo($row_YOURRecordset['column_url']); ?>"><?php echo($row_YOURRecordset['column_url']); ?></a>
If the article has a 'friendly' name, i.e. title, then the second php bit could contain that column name:
<a href="<?php echo($row_YOURRecordset['column_url']); ?>"><?php echo($row_YOURRecordset['column_title']); ?></a>