August 2012
Beginner
583 pages
16h 1m
English
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Test Your Knowledge
What is the purpose of the semicolon in MySQL queries?
Which command would you use to view the available databases or tables?
How would you create a new MySQL user on the local host called newuser with a password of newpass and with access to everything in the database
newdatabase?How can you view the structure of a table?
What is the purpose of a MySQL index?
What benefit does a
FULLTEXTindex provide?What is a stopword?
Both
SELECT DISTINCTandGROUP BYcause the display to show only one output row for each value in a column, even if multiple rows contain that value. What are the main differences betweenSELECT DISTINCTandGROUP BY?Using the
SELECT...WHEREconstruct, how would you return only rows containing the word Langhorne somewhere in theauthorcolumn of theclassicstable used in this chapter?What needs to be defined in two tables to make it possible for you to join them together?
See Chapter 8 Answers in Appendix A for the answers to these questions.
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