10. Working with Your MySQL Database

In this chapter, we discuss Structured Query Language (SQL) and its use in querying databases. You continue developing the Book-O-Rama database by learning how to insert, delete, and update data, and how to ask the database questions.

Key topics covered in this chapter include

Image What is SQL?

Image Inserting data into the database

Image Retrieving data from the database

Joining tables

Using subqueries

Updating records from ...

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