MySQL is a general purpose relational database management system (RDBMS) used mainly to provide a back-end database for web applications. In this course, we'll introduce the concepts of relational database management systems in general, and how they relate to MySQL in particular.

Unlike traditional courses that concentrate mainly on theory, we'll take a practical “how-to” approach to working with data. Here's what yyou'll learn:

Creating databases and tables

Adding data to a table with INSERT

Reading a table with SELECT

How to use WHERE to filter data

Using ORDER BY to sort data

JOINs and how to use them to read from multiple tables

Changing data in a table with UPDATE

The DELETE query: removing one or more rows of data from a table

Using a text file to load a database schema

These topics and many more will be covered. The concentration in this course is on MySQL itself… not on how to use it to for any particular purpose. But this course makes a great introduction to our upcoming course about web databases using php and MySQL. So why wait… sign up today!