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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

The MySQL Workbench GUI

MySQL Workbench is a GUI from Oracle. It allows users to interact with multiple instances of the MySQL databases. This interaction can be user management, database management, and essentially, anything that a person wants to interact against the MySQL instance. This makes it easier than having to perform the same steps via the command line.

There are two versions of the MySQL Workbench GUI: 8.0 (32-bit) and 8.0 (64-bit). The version you have will depend on the bit version of MySQL that you have installed on your system. Both versions look and work the same across all Windows, Mac, and Linux OSs:

Figure 2.1: MySQL Workbench 8.0

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You can download the relevant version of MySQL Workbench at https://dev.mysql.com/downloads/workbench/.

When you open the MySQL Workbench GUI, a screen similar to the following screenshot should be visible:

Figure 2.2: The MySQL Workbench GUI opening screen

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