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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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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

Creating a database

A MySQL server requires a database to store and organize data. Your MySQL server can hold many databases and will efficiently work with all of the databases and multiple client connections simultaneously. In fact, each client will seemingly have exclusive access to the server and database; however, often, they will be sharing it with many or perhaps even hundreds of other people.

Databases are logical containers that group tables together to achieve a goal by providing special access rights, user management, and many other useful features.

A database schema is the collection of data tables, views, stored procedures, and functions that make up the database. To make the MySQL server useful, you need to have created at least one database.

In the following exercise, you will create the autoclub database.

Exercise 2.02 – creating the autoclub database

In this scenario, you are the database administrator of an automobile club. Every database system...

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