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C. BellMySQL Database Service Revealedhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8945-7_3

3. A Brief Tutorial of MySQL

Charles Bell1  
(1)
WARSAW, VA, USA
 

Perhaps you’ve never used a database system before or maybe you’ve used one as a user but have never had any need to set up one from scratch. Or perhaps you’ve decided to discover what all the fuss is about database systems in general.

In this chapter, I present a short introduction to MySQL in the general SQL interface sense (traditional MySQL). Not only will you see how MySQL 8 is used to create and use databases, but you will also be introduced to some of the basics of the SQL interface, which is necessary and ...

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