1 Installing MySQL and Tools
To begin working with databases, you’ll install the free version of MySQL, called MySQL Community Server (also known as MySQL Community Edition), and two handy tools: MySQL Workbench and the MySQL command line client. This software can be downloaded for free from the MySQL website. You will use these tools to work on projects and exercises later in this book.
The MySQL Architecture
MySQL uses a client/server architecture, as shown in Figure 1-1.
Figure 1-1: The client/server architecture
The server side of this ...
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