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Lesson 14. Creating and Modifying Tables

In this lesson, you learn how to use the SQL commands for managing tables and databases in MySQL. This subset of SQL is known as the Data Definition Language.

Before we look at how tables are managed in MySQL, we should examine the command set that is used to create databases on a MySQL server.

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