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The MySQL Workshop

You're reading from   The MySQL Workshop A practical guide to working with data and managing databases with MySQL

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781839214905
Length 726 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Scott Cosentino Scott Cosentino
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Thomas Pettit Thomas Pettit
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Table of Contents (22) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Creating Your Database
2. Chapter 1: Background Concepts FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Creating a Database 4. Chapter 3: Using SQL to Work with a Database 5. Chapter 4: Selecting, Aggregating, and Applying Functions 6. Section 2: Managing Your Database
7. Chapter 5: Correlating Data across Tables 8. Chapter 6: Stored Procedures and Other Objects 9. Chapter 7: Creating Database Clients in Node.js 10. Chapter 8: Working with Data Using Node.js 11. Section 3: Querying Your Database
12. Chapter 9: Microsoft Access – Part 1 13. Chapter 10: Microsoft Access – Part 2 14. Chapter 11: MS Excel VBA and MySQL – Part 1 15. Chapter 12: Working With Microsoft Excel VBA – Part 2 16. Section 4: Protecting Your Database
17. Chapter 13: Getting Data into MySQL 18. Chapter 14: Manipulating User Permissions 19. Chapter 15: Logical Backups 20. Other Books You May Enjoy Appendix

Solution to Activity 3.2

The solution for the activity is as follows:

  1. Open a SQL tab and run the following command to fetch the ID of the new member:
    SELECT ID FROM members where 'Surname' = "Pettit"
  2. Execute the SQL statement by clicking the lightning bolt icon:

Figure 16.20 – SQL to extract the user ID of a member by surname

You should get the following output:

Figure 16.21 – The ID for the user Pettit

  1. Download the image from GitHub and add it to the Members/Photos folder. Add your member ID to the name of the image. The folder should look like the following:

Figure 16.22 – The updated Photos folder

  1. Create a script in a new SQL tab to update your record with the image and path:
    UPDATE 'members' 
    SET  
    PhotoPath = "Members\\Photos\\MemberPhoto_2.jpg"
    WHERE   'ID'=2;
  2. Execute the SQL...
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