1. Getting Started with MySQL
This chapter provides an introduction to the MySQL relational database management system (RDBMS), and to the Structured Query Language (SQL) MySQL understands. It lays out basic terms and concepts you should understand, describes the sampdb sample database we’ll use for examples, and provides a tutorial showing how to use MySQL to create a database and interact with it.
Begin here if you are new to database systems and perhaps uncertain whether you need one or can use one. Also read the chapter if you don’t know anything about MySQL or SQL and need an introductory guide to get started. Readers who have experience with MySQL or other database systems might want to skim through the material. However, to become familiar ...
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