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Understanding SQL
In this chapter, you’ll learn about databases and SQL, which are prerequisites to learning MySQL.
Database Basics
The fact that you are reading this book indicates that you, somehow, need to interact with databases, and MySQL specifically. And so, before diving into MySQL and its implementation of the SQL language, it is important that you understand some basic concepts about databases and database technologies.
Whether you are aware of it or not, you use databases all the time. Each time you select a name from your email address book, you are using a database. When you browse contacts on your phone, you are using a database. If you conduct a search on an Internet search site, you are using a database. When you log in to ...
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