Learning the Sakila database
Sakila DB is an example database developed by Mike Hillyer, who is a member of the MySQL AB documentation team. The goal of Sakila DB is to be the example database used in books, articles, tutorials, examples, and so on. Sakila's development dates back to 2005. Since then, it has grown and become stronger through various community contributions.
Sakila DB is designed to store information for a video rental store: actors, movies, clients, rentals, payments, and so on.
Sakila is the name of the dolphin used in the official MySQL logo:
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About MySQL in this book
In this book, we assume that the reader has MySQL Server 5 or later installed. The installation and configuration of MySQL Server is beyond the scope of this book. There are many good tutorials on how to install MySQL in different operating systems, for example, http://dev.mysql.com/doc/workbench/en/wb-starting.html.
