Most people who work with MySQL leverage the relational database capabilities using the Structured Query Language (SQL) interface to interact with their data. As we have seen, MySQL Shell is a very capable client that you can use to work with your data using Structured Query Language (SQL) statements. However, MySQL Shell is also a powerful scripting language editor and execution engine.
In this chapter, we will take a brief look at what SQL databases are and how to work with them in the shell, including a brief overview of using SQL. However, we won’t spend a lot of time there since ...
